heavy earth
Britishnoun
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Hertz, the No. 2 U.S. car rental company behind privately owned Enterprise Rent-A-Car, has been under pressure from investors to shed the business, which rents equipment ranging from small tools to heavy earth movers.
From Reuters
With this fierce book, Lane, fulfilling a promise he made in an early father poem, Fathers and Sons, reaches "down into the heavy earth" and sings his father "back into the day", and himself free of the poisons of drugs and alcohol.
From The Guardian
And in the nights the heavy Earth, too, falls From out the stars into the Solitude.
From Project Gutenberg
The officers all had heavy earth barricades built in front of their tents, and these furnished fairly good protection.
From Project Gutenberg
The heart is made of heavy earth, and therefore it cannot long endure such moments.
From Project Gutenberg
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