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 1        I|       soldiers desecrated the soil of France; the Prussian
 2        I|      we have scratched up the soil with our very nails, we
 3       IX|      sterile character of the soil.~ ~Nature seemed to have
 4       IX|    with stones, and the sandy soil defied all attempts to enrich
 5       IX| clefts of the rock sufficient soil to sustain them and the
 6       IX|       violence upon the sandy soil, and withered the few plants
 7      XVI|     over the sterility of the soil had cost Lacheneur’s deceased
 8      XVI|     four basketfuls of richer soil, which she was obliged to
 9      XXV|      Many a man who would not soil his hands with the price
10    XLVII| wildly overturning the beaten soil that formed the floor of