The sole process was to thrust in the arm up to the shoulder and seize them briskly; but there was some danger of grasping a snake at the bottom of the burrow instead of a petrel.
Holes intentionally made for rabbits to burrow in, either in an open warren, or within an inclosure.
The payment of Burrow mails for one year, as the condition on which a new-made burgess continued to enjoy his privilege, although his property was not built upon.
The chief apartment in the rabbit-burrow was beautifully decorated; the floor was patted flat and strewn with scented thyme, and over the entrance a bat hung head downwards.
But it most unfortunately happens that I have this very evening lent my burrow for a charitable entertainment, and so am not properly master in my own house.
I have myself collected specimens of these shells in the clay beds along the banks of the Solimoens, near Teffe, and might have mistaken them for fossils of that formation had I not known how Naiades burrow in the mud.
The sun is not seen there till a late hour in the winter, and the few who make it their homeburrow closely as rabbits from the bitter cold and deep snows.
They think I burrow from the sun, In darkness, all alone and weak; Such loss were gain if He were won.
During the winter months I could not face the water for long, and I could not sit at the door of my burrow because the river had risen so high, so I was forced to go inland when I was not asleep.
Jock and his wife were kindly parents enough, and would doubtless have been well pleased to keep their youngsters by their side, but the burrow was not big enough for a family that numbered eight in all.
The entries to the burrow were flooded and, owing to a temporary obstruction at the bend of the river, the water threatened to pierce to the nest at the far end.
Mrs. Water-rat in her snug little burrow that had had several leaves and pieces of weeds added to it by the affectionate Jock was the mother of another half-dozen babies.
As the weather did not improve the river burrow was left altogether, and another was made in a field some little distance off.
Then he killed Mrs. Water-rat almost as quickly, and hurried away out of the burrow and on to the land feeling very pleased with himself, as he ran swiftly towards the rabbit burrows where he intended to make a fresh kill.
This time he made for his home, and entered the burrow by the newly cleared door in the bank.
Spring came at last, and the two water-rats left their home on the land, and returned to the burrow upon the banks.
Once again the interior of the far end of the burrow was cleaned, a new nest was made, and Mrs. Water-rat began to prepare herself for domestic duties.
They will then betake themselves to the earth, burrow beneath its surface, and devour the young rootlets of the forest trees.
The Mole-rat does not keep itself quite so jealously secluded as does our common Mole, but occasionally will come out of theburrow and lie on the ground, enjoying the warm sunshine.
The depth of its burrow depends on the severity of the winter, for, as the cold increases, the Tortoise sinks itself more deeply into the earth.
It does not even wait for the corn to spring up, but willburrow beneath the surface, and dig out the seed before it has had time to sprout.
When it does move, it darts quickly out of sight, and disappears into its burrow with a sudden leap.
There they remain until they are full-grown, when they crawl through the nostrils, fall on the ground, burrow therein, and in the earth undergo their changes into the pupal and perfect stages.
There seems to be no bounds to the quantity of food which a Hamster will carry into its subterranean store-house, from seventy to one hundred pounds' weight being sometimes taken out of the burrow of a single animal.
Being a nocturnal animal, it retires during the day-time to some crevice in a rock or burrow in the ground, and there lies sleeping until the sunset awakens it and calls it to action.
They (the Indians) believe that in eating up the moon their noses are burned off, their teeth worn out, and for their damage have been cast down from above, where they are doomed to burrow in the earth and get nothing to eat.
The Head followed the fox, who being afraid of it, when he arrived at the end of the burrow commenced digging farther in great haste, the Head still following and calling on the fox to stop.
These moles are numerous all over the prairies, have pointed noses, no teeth, and burrow in the ground.
Birds that burrow in the sand-banks are enticed out by the glare of torches, and knocked down in large numbers with clubs.
The wild sage furnishes them shelter in the heat of summer, and, like the Cayote, theyburrow in the earth for protection from the inclemencies of winter.
Some of them build absolutely no dwellings, but live in caves and among the rocks, while others burrow like reptiles in the ground.
It must also be remembered that many species require a dry soil in which to burrow when about to change.
When full grown, they descend to the root of the tree, burrow into the soil, and there remain in the chrysalis state till the following June.
Many seek a further protection than this, and burrow into the soil, where they either lie in a little oval cell that they prepare, or in a cocoon constructed by spinning together some particles of earth.
The caterpillars are hatched in about a week, and commence feeding on the calyx of the buds, and soon burrowinto them till they are quite concealed.
The species that burrow into the soil or bury themselves in the moss need never be disturbed till the rearing season is quite over, and then they may be transferred to a box specially kept for the accommodation of pupae.
We have already observed that some larvae burrow into soil when about to change, while others creep to a sheltered corner, or suspend themselves from the food plant itself.
Another leaf is examined in exactly the same way; and here we see the little destroyer, lying motionless in its burrow till a gentle pressure applied against it from outside causes it to wriggle along its narrow passage.
It was like coming upon a well-remembered spot in a stream where he had once captured a large salmon, or some burrow under a stump where he had dug out a luckless rabbit.
The tracks led into the deepest, thickest portion of the top and there ended at the mouth of a burrow that had been tunneled down underneath.
They kill the twig they burrow in, so that the wind blows it to the ground, and they go through their transformation on the ground.
To make the transformation, theyburrow into the ground or into the wood of trees and but rarely make for themselves silken cocoons such as the butterfly larvae spin.
With her strong, saw-like jaws, the female makes her burrow in soft wood and lines it with bits of leaf which she has cut from some plant.
Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
This must be the burrow where the stranger lurked.
Carnivorous insects, and insects which feed on decaying animal matter, which occasionally burrow underground in search of food.
The temperature inside the tent at night was intensely cold, and they had to burrow out a snow hut for the use of the sufferer.
Some people go along all their days with no other thought in life than to burrow through their own mole-hills.
Some blind instinct helped him to find the bed and burrow down under the clothes, where he lay trying to think what possible fault of his could have raised such a cyclone about his ears.
Among the enemies of the hickory we must not forget the common field mouse, and the pine mouse, which burrow beneath the surface of the ground, and in winter feed freely upon the bark of the roots of the hickories.
That soon hatches into the small grub, and the grub begins to burrow out to get his food, and you will find these little burrows running out from the main burrow of the mother beetle.
The little beetle belongs to a family called the Scolytidae--very small beetles that burrow through the bark of trees, and between the bark and the wood, partly in the bark and partly in the wood.
It lives in the fields, or woods, like the hare, and does not burrow like the rabbit.
It conceals itself also in holes, yet it does not burrow like the rabbit, but retires into the cavities of rocks, where it is very easily taken.
Tired of the beach, these birds love to burrow in mud-bottomed inlets for the small crabs called fiddlers, which frequent such places.
The time spent in the formation of a burrow depends upon the nature of the soil and the length of the shaft.
He had a desire to burrow into the thicket yonder and hide his face and his chained hands.
And the woman knew of a faulty catch on a rear cellar window, and so, in a fit of stark desperation bordering on lunacy, back they ran, like a pair of spent foxes circling to a burrow from which they have been smoked out.
This, perhaps, is some deserted Woodpecker den, decayed knothole, or more often it is a burrow of their own making, and here they assume the delights and cares of wedded life.
Other birds may build their nests on the ground, or burrow in the ground, or dig holes in tree trunks, or even hang their nests down inside dark chimneys if they like, but Chippy doesn't think much of such places.
Galls on the withers and poll of the head are more to be feared than any other injury of like kind, as matter is extremely liable to burrow in such situations, and lead to the formation of fistulous cavities and excessively troublesome wounds.
Perfect warrens, like those of rabbits, are formed by these birds, who burrow in the soft ground for a distance of 2ft.
I saw, almost indifferently, Collins burst out of the burrow behind Macartney, as Marcia had burst out, and grab me.
I crept out of his burrow as I had crept in, got back to my half-frozen horse, and rode hell for leather back to the Halfway.
It was just beginning to snow when we crawled down the burrow you'd crawled out of and found this place--and your boy.
What was more, I had been alone with the thing under my very nose in the light ashes into which it must have sunk and never had the sense to burrow for it.
But he rose, lit a second candle, and led the way out of his warm burrow by a dark hole opposite the one we had entered by, and into a cramped alley where we had to walk bent double.
But Macartney only stood there, looking so much as usual that I guessed he must have rested outside the mouth of our burrow before he wormed down to tackle me.
For when he had reached the end of that first pitch that led into the old burrow of Billy Woodchuck's uncle and aunt he never once thought of turning back.
It was the entrance to an old burrow where an aunt and an uncle of Billy Woodchuck had once lived and raised a numerous family.
There were signs in plenty about the spot that told Dickie Deer Mouse the burrow was deserted.
He remembered that he was in the burrow where Mr. and Mrs. Woodchuck had lived, in Farmer Green's pasture.
Sometimes, when summer had ended and fall brought a night that was rainy and cold, he liked to go home after he had finished his supper, and burrow deep into his soft bed of cat-tail down.
The night was not ended when Dickie sought the burrow in the pasture once more.
When Dickie first noticed the burrow he stopped short and stood quite still, while he peeped at it out of a tangle of blackberry bushes.
The departed Mr. and Mrs. Woodchuck had been wise enough to dig the opening to their burrow between the roots of the tree.
As the bumblebee babies keep coming and coming, the burrow has to be dug bigger and bigger, to take care of them.
The crayfish, as you may know, love to burrow in the mud, for you are always coming across their little mud towers along the margins of the brooks.
They like the moist shelter of the stones and burrow under them.
And, not only that, but this coating of soil lying upon the bed rock hastens its decay; for the earthworm's burrow runs down four to six feet, sometimes farther.
Like most of the crab family, the land-crab earns its living at night and, except in rainy weather, seldom leaves its burrow by day.
Here's a fine opening for a live young chap," we can imagine one of these roots saying when it comes to an empty earthworm's burrow or a vacancy left by some other little root that has decayed and gone away.
It uses that long, tapering nose and those claws to burrowfor the ants on which it lives.
The round nest at the end of the burrow is lined with fine grass.
He sinks his burrow below the frost-line and into this, stuffed in his two pockets, he carries food to eat when he wakes up during the following Spring, before earth's harvests are ripe.
When used for house furnishing they are placed in the entrance-hall; that is to say, they are used to coat the mouth of the burrow to prevent the worm's body from coming in contact with the ground.
This is the burrow of a Richardson ground-squirrel sketched by Thompson Seton, near Whitewater, Manitoba.
Whenever he can find a burrow of a badger, for example, he drives the badger out and then enlarges the place to suit his own needs.
The animal turns in its burrow from side to side when at work, adhering to the interior by the foot, and therefore only partially rotating to and fro.
These sluggish white mollusks ordinarily live on the muddy sea-floor, or burrow in it, where they devour minuter animals, such as Foraminifera, and the spawn and larval forms of their fellow Mollusca.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
