The bright green of the grass, the sponginess of the soil, the presence of great stretches of ferns and beds of moss told of almost perpetual moisture.
"Green Fancy"
George Barr McCutcheon
And, but for the tell-tale riot of the streams and the sponginess of the compound, there was nothing to betray the past misdeeds of the clerk of the weather.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
Saxham complies, leaving the sentry to gloat distantly over the little brown lump of loose tangled fibres rapidly reducing to sponginess under the downpour from the skies.
"The Dop Doctor"
Clotilde Inez Mary Graves