And after thanking Mr. Blackbird for his advice, he turned away and burrowed out of sight.
And Grandfather Mole himself sometimes remarked that he didn't know how he could have burrowed as he did if he had been forever getting dirt in his eyes and ears.
Now the three fat toads had also smelled the spring down in a soft spot under the lawn, whither, in the previous autumn, they had burrowed for their winter sleep.
They burrowed into their grim old hearts as Uncle Joe Tubbs grubbed into the mud for clams, and brought out treasures of shy affection.
Mother suddenly crumpled, burrowed her head against Father's shoulder and sobbed: "This is ours?
The reward of my four-mile detour is a cup of sloppy tea and a few weevil-burrowed biscuits, as the best the refreshment-room can produce on short notice.
We walked across the wild flowers, past the sheep, who only raised their heads in meek surprise when shells came with a shrill, intensifying snarl and burrowed up the earth about them.
There they lay panting among wounded and dead, and after that shoveled up earth and burrowed to get cover from the shelling which was soon to fall on them.
Our men lived there and died there within a few yards of the enemy, crouched below the sand-bags and burrowed in the sides of the crater.
Tommy burrowed his sharp face into the dead leaves at his feet and tossed his head into the air.
Some of them burrowed beneath the fallen leaves; some of them hid behind old stumps; some of them crept into a hollow log.
He had burrowed his way into the snow, so that he might have a warm blanket to cover him during the night.
The waves must have broken their oars or carried them away, for they dropped the bit of sail, the boat burrowed aimlessly with its prow, and settled down lazily with its broadside to the wind.
I'm to be turned out of the confirmation-class," Pelle managed to say, and then burrowed into the hay to keep back his tears.
Pelle was cold and burrowed into the straw, where he crept close up to his father.
Then he beat, slowly and with all his might, while Rud burrowed with his head in the grass and clasped the money tightly to keep up his strength.
Awakened in the course of a few hours by drifts of snow about our feet, I noted that the wind had burrowed holes at weak spots through the snow wall.
Yet, now and then, small holes were burrowed through the snow wall by the sharp wind.
When they carried the empty coffin into the death chamber, he burrowedhis face into the corner of the sofa.
I have occasionally read descriptions of escapes from the Bastille, where prisoners with a yard of rope, a spare shirt, and an oyster knife, have burrowed and scaled and got clean off.
Two years ago a hundred thousand people burrowed in these inhuman dens; but some have been torn down since.
Joel flung himself flat, andburrowed along the whole length of the bed, knocking Davie's shins all the way.
Polly, running over to put her arms around David, who burrowed into them as far as he could.
They had burrowed down into the snow where the house would shelter them from the hurricane as much as possible.
Afterward theyburrowed down in the snow and fell asleep.
The hairy throat of Fleur, burrowed in the snow close to the tent, rumbled like distant thunder.
There, after feeding the dogs, they burrowed into the snow in the lee of the cliffs wrapped in their fur robes.
I crawled down it, all but flat, as I burrowed like a rabbit, with my back scraping against the living rock between me and the sky, and my head turned to the place where I knew the lean-to stood.
All the same, Halleck burrowed slowly forward like a mole, entrenching every night as if the respective strengths and victories had been reversed.
But after this the Federals kept their rollers wet; and sapped and burrowed till the big mine was fully charged and safe from the Confederate countermine, which had missed its mark.
Randall's eyes roved desperately around the clearing; and then, as they fell on a group of the great burrowed openings that seemed present everywhere about them, he uttered an exclamation.
In some of these clearings they saw, too, strange great openings burrowed in the ground as though by some strange animal.
His senses reeled from the suffocating air, the great cavity being but a half-score feet in height, burrowed from the damp earth by these numberless things.
The children, in their excitement, almost burrowed into him; Uncle Felix drew a deep breath and stared.
Little Dick lifted his head from the nest where he had burrowed under his mother’s soft hair, and regarded her closely through his tears.
But they didn’t; so he burrowed deeper, and tried not to cry.
We burrowedin the depths of trunks for those bits of finery that we had supposed would not be needed again for years.
After that I burrowedmy head in my pillow, and the servant blew out some of the candles and brought in our guests.
He burrowed into the soft earth while Ernest and Faith threw themselves flat on their stomachs.
As she and Ernest both darted upon it, it scrambled for her side and burrowed swiftly under the bank.
When we came out, we spread our clothes to dry on the roof of the barracks, while we burrowed each in a hill of white sand, and smoked our pipes far into the night, with only our heads and the hand that held the pipe sticking out.
Rent was getting higher all the time, and the deeper I burrowed in the slum, the more my thoughts turned, by a sort of defensive instinct, to the country.
It was full of musk-rats that burrowed in its banks between the roots of dead hemlocks and pines.
Suddenly they burroweddown into the sand and disappeared.
We burrowed into the loose sand, piling it up on the open side until we were well covered.
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