The first few miles of this day's journey were along a clayey flat or hollow, which enabled me to avoid scrubby and sandy ground on each side.
The crop is also on many soils of larger quantity; and although the parsnip delights in a very open, rich soil, it will succeed in clayey soils far too stiff for the carrot.
Close, clayey soils, on account of their poor physical condition, also favor the development of the disease after transplanting.
Even walking through the field when the soil is wet is injurious and should be avoided, in proportion as the soil is a clayey one.
Did he owe his pitch-black eyes to the molten jet, his fur to the clayey ooze, his soft ears to the sea-wrack, his ardent blood to the liquid fire?
Give back to me my furrows full of mud, give back to me my clayey paths.
In my garden, the well-levelled paths, made of a mixture of tiny pebbles and red clayey earth, suits her to perfection.
I find them enshrined, one by one, in the body of the clayey earth, in a narrow recess which the emigrant worm has contrived to make for itself.
The insect first digs in the clayey earth a recess with an oval curve to it.
It cannot, like the agouti, subsist on the gravelly and desert plains of Patagonia, but prefers a clayeyor sandy soil, which produces a different and more abundant vegetation.
Near the coast the rough lava is quite bare: in the central and higher parts feldspathic rocks by their decomposition have produced a clayey soil, which, where not covered by vegetation, is stained in broad bands of many bright colours.
The Kansan drift consists for the most part of a sheet of clayey till carrying smaller bowlders than the later drift.
Thus there are limy and clayey sandstones, sandy and clayey limestones, and sandy and limy shales.
On the upper surface we note that the shale has weathered to a clayey soil in which all traces of structure have been destroyed.
In part it consists of sound rock ground fine; a drop of acid on fresh, clayey till often proves by brisk effervescence that the till contains much undecayed limestone flour.
Others, long held against the northward sloping country by the retreating ice edge, left in their beaches their clayey beds, and their outlet channels permanent evidences of their area and depth.
Where considerable mud is being deposited along with carbonate of lime there is in process of making a clayey limestone or a limy shale; where considerable sand, a sandy limestone or a limy sandstone.
Excepting Stratheden and Strathleven, which are mostly rich, fertile loam, the interior is principally cold and stiff clay or thin loam with strong clayey subsoil.
From Leven to Inverkeithing it varies from a light sand to a rich clayey loam.
He turned his eyes toward theclayey roof and gave thanks.
To his horror he now discovered that the beams which stretched across to prevent the clayey roof from falling in had been removed.
Taking a taper, which was left burning below, The Lifter led the way for a considerable distance, and then turning to the right entered a sort of aperture or pocket in the clayey wall to his right.
The mountain sheep may often be seen skipping from one ledge to another of the rugged rocks, and precipitous clayey cliffs of the western wilds, giving life to the solitary place, and interest to the picturesque beauty of lonely spots.
Round hills, or huge clayey mounds, often covered with grass and flowers to the very top.
The strata consist mainly of conglomerates and red sandstones, which, at Gamrie and at Tynet, are associated with a band of limestone nodules embedded in a clayey matrix, containing fish remains.
They are like the Hybrid Perpetuals in their love for a rich loamy soil--one inclining to a clayey rather than to a sandy nature.
Yattendon (274) stands on a clayey hill five and a half miles west of Pangbourn.
The chalk gradually bends downwards underground and is covered by sand, gravel, and clay, so that in many places we find the upper part of the hills sandy or clayeywhilst the valleys beneath them are chalk.
It is dark coloured, often shaley, with a little clayey limestone.
A village on a clayey hill five and a half miles north-west of Newbury.
I clambered to the top of a lofty hummock, through a dense thicket of interwoven Rhododendron bushes, the clayey soil under which was slippery from the quantity of dead leaves.
There are three or four with a cup-shaped involucre, and three with spinous involucres enclosing an eatable sweet nut; these generally grow on a dry clayey soil.
From the river we proceeded west, following a steep and clayey ascent up the end of a very long spur, from the lofty mountain range called Mungbreu, dividing the Great Rungeet from the Teesta.
The path, which still lay up steep ridges, was very slippery, owing to the rain upon the clayey soil, and was only passable from the hold afforded by interlacing roots of trees.
The material used was not homogeneous, and the mixture consisted of a very clayey loam, a fibrous loam, sand and large stones.
Moulds of this kind are easy to make and are specially suitable when the soil is somewhat clayey in its nature.
The clayey material gave rise to surface cracks as the blocks dried.
In clayey loams, the surface in the matted rows becomes as hard as a brick.
We passed over a large plain, washed by the river; the soil, a stiff red clayey loam, long parched by drought; the sides of the hill light red sandy loam.
Lime and land plaster are also valuable, as they cause chemical changes which tend to break up clayey soils.
The owner of a clayeygarden has one big consolation.
Rocks are the original basis of all soils, and according to the degree of fineness to which they have been reduced, through centuries of decomposition by air, moisture and frost, they are known as gravelly, sandy or clayey soils.
A deep, rich and moist soil is the best--approaching a clayey loam.
That is a slow process--especially so in clayeyor heavy soils.
The soil for raspberries should be clayey if possible, and moist, but not wet.
At fifteen miles we came upon a little firm clayey plain with some salt bushes, and it also had upon it some clay pans, but they had long been dry.
We could then see that the range ended, but sent out one more creek, which meandered down the valley towards some other hills beyond; this valley was of a clayey soil, and the creek had some clay holes with water in them.
We got some pure water for ourselves, and were enabled to dispense with the yellow clayey fluid we had carried.
They told me that it was not a long march, but it was a hard one, as it was up hill, over wet and clayey ground, where it was difficult not to slip back as fast as they advanced.
The clayey yellow mud of three weeks' exposure in the trenches was plastered on them so thick that I wondered how they managed to mount their horses.
A stiff clayey soil offers a good example of the disadvantage of over-retentiveness.
They may be described as of all crops the least fastidious, and will flourish on sandy, peaty, or clayey soils.
In a clayeysubsoil the principal hindrance to nitrification will be the difficulty of obtaining sufficient aeration.
This is especially so in soils whose texture is too close, such as heavy clayey soils.
The benefits conferred on clayey soils by tillage will in this respect be especially great.
In fact, an example of this action of salt when in solution causing the precipitation of fine suspended clayey matter, is afforded by the formation of deltas at the mouths of rivers.
Where such an influence is most required, as in clayey soils, the manure ought to be applied in a fresh condition, so that the maximum influence exerted by the manure in this direction may be experienced.
The converse, of course, we may mention in passing, holds good of clayey soils.
In the first place, the tendency to puddle in a clayeysoil is due to the fine state of division of the soil-particles.
Below this peaty stratum there is a greenish clayey deposit, similar in composition to that found at some depth in the surrounding plain, into which the piles were driven.
By-and-by we came in sight of heaps of clayey stuff, the tops of which sparkled with reflected light, and in their midst were to be seen the masts and rigging of three boats.
Below the ordinary peat there is a layer of blackish mud which, on being dried, is combustible, and underneath it lie the stratified layers of ancient lake silt, consisting of a whitish clayey substance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clayey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adobe; doughy; earthy; gumbo; pasty; plastic
