Burrows received this statement with a grunt of dissent, but the arrival of his dogcart put a stop to further discussion.
Burrows and the sergeant, or whether they resemble the drawing which, as you have heard, was made by the officer on the spot and before he had seen the shoes; that is a matter for you to decide.
Burrows and the sergeant having been present immediately after the finding of the body, his evidence was not considered necessary, and, moreover, he was known to be watching the case in the interests of the accused.
Burrows did not issue any invitation, I was not able to be present.
Their burrows are alike and usually in the same neighbourhood.
All these holes in the sand you call gopher burrows sometimes, sometimes salamander holes.
I observe great numbers of the whistleing Squirel which burrows their holes Scattered on each Side of the glades through which we passed.
It has been shown that Armadillos excavate their burrows under the hills of Ants or Termites, where they are able to gather their principal food with the greatest convenience by day as well as by night.
The Tufted Puffin breeds upon the rocks and in the Rabbit warrens near the sea, finding the ready-made burrows of the Rabbit very convenient for the reception of its egg, and fighting with the owner for the possession of its burrow.
While Marcy talked he was looking through one of the papers Captain Burrows had left behind for the account of that famous fight in Hampton Roads, and when he found it he read it aloud.
Then he went on to explain how and when it came into his possession, and again offered to produce it; but Captain Burrowssaid he would not put him to so much trouble.
Captain Burrows happens to be officer of the day," said the corporal, who no doubt wondered how Marcy came to be acquainted with him.
The advance, however, of a rival claimant from Herat, in the person of Ayub Khan, caused the Government of India to direct General Burrows to defend the passage of the River Helmund.
Unfortunately, instead of keeping to his purpose of occupying Maiwand, which lay on his right, General Burrows made the fatal mistake of attacking a column of the enemy which appeared on his left.
But the Wali's army mutinied and deserted to Ayub, and General Burrows decided to retire to Kushk-i-Nakhud, thirty miles in rear of the Helmund.
The directions of their burrowsevince that they search after ant heaps, and the insects quickly disappear from near the hole of an Armadillo.
Some of the species have nocturnal habits and are very timid, flying to their burrows the moment they hear a noise.
The entire system for any one den seems to consist not only of the burrows within the mound itself, as described, but of those small outlying ones which we have referred to as subsidiary burrows.
Sections of pods which must have been dragged into the burrows are found, some of them certainly being much too long for carriage in the pouches.
We suspect, though this is a point difficult to prove satisfactorily, that merriami does not always store food supplies for itself, but visits the burrows of spectabilis regularly to pilfer the seed stored therein.
On the Range Reserve merriami erects no mounds, but excavates its burrows in the open or at the base of Prosopis, Lycium, or other brush.
Small caches of about a tablespoonful of these buds were also found in the burrows at this time.
Miscellaneous portions of green plants of mixed species, no seeds 5 Representing minimum for any one of the 22 burrows studied.
We were not permitted to excavate any of these burrows, but conversation with farmers of the immediate vicinity indicated that the burrows were not deep.
It was noteworthy that burrows were found only in the areas of sandy soil, although paths used by the rats when foraging did extend onto and several crossed the lenses of black loam.
These constitute the genus Crusiana, while others of more ordinary form belong to the genus Arenicolites, so named from the common Arenicola, or lobworm, whose burrows they are supposed to resemble.
With a pair of fore-feet, curiously adapted to the purpose, it burrows and works under ground like the mole, raising a ridge as it proceeds, but seldom throwing up hillocks.
Carbon bisulphide has been extensively used in California in the burrows of ground squirrels.
Its fumes, being heavier than air, penetrate the burrowsand promptly poison or asphyxiate all living animals and fleas.
Their well-known adaptability to changing conditions, however, permits them to house themselves comfortably above ground when driven out of theseburrows and holes.
As already mentioned, rainfall doubtless serves to drive rats above ground and so, to a certain extent, away from their nests inburrows and underground.
Where the circumstances will permit, and this is apt to be so for ground-squirrel destruction, the burrows may be filled with some asphyxiating or poisonous gas.
He burrows like the badger, and on the Australian continent never quits his retreat until night sets in.
He ranges over all the Steppes of Tartary, and lives in burrows like the foxes.
In the deserts of Africa and Arabia the traveller frequently meets with small rodents, which excavate their burrows in the sandy soil, and only issue from them at night in quest of food.
He inhabits the woody regions of South America, where he is generally found in the vicinity of water, concealing himself in burrows so near the surface, that the pedestrian's foot often intrudes within them.
He burrows near the roots of trees, and several squirrels frequently tenant one burrow, where they lay up stores of nuts and grain for winter supply.
He burrows like a fox, and prowls abroad at night in search of food, which consists chiefly of carrion and small vermin.
However, he frequently visits terra firma, and burrows with great ease; concealing himself in a torpid state in his subterranean retreat during the cold season.
Like all Sarcoptes, itburrows little galleries in and beneath the scurf skin, where it hides and lays its eggs and where its young are hatched.
The pus burrows and finds lodgment deep down between the muscles, and escapes only when the sinus becomes surcharged or when, during motion of the parts, the matter is forced to the surface.
The chigoe (Pulex penetrans) of the Gulf coast is still more injurious, because it burrows under the surface and deposits its eggs to be hatched out slowly with much irritation.
Where streams are swift or where there is danger of the houses being carried away by freshets, they dig burrows in the bank, making the entrance below the surface of the water.
These burrows extend sometimes twenty-five or thirty feet into the bank and the interior chamber is sometimes quite large.
And yet a sight of the honeycombed and tunnelled miles of the burrows might have justified an opinion that all the foxes of Devonshire could have done no lasting hurt here.
Among the burrows of the warren she threaded her way until, black against the night, towered Ditsworthy.
However, I noticed that the burrows of the prairie dogs were quite numerous where we had left the trail.
So I took the strings of my moccasins, and making in the ends of each a running noose I fastened them over the burrowsthat seemed very fresh.
The codlin moth caterpillar burrows in developing apples and pears, and such "wormy" fruit is known to everybody.
The larva of this insect is best known from its habit of boring through potato-tubers; these burrows become filled by a fungus after the larvae have vacated them.
We climbed a long hill and emerged on a sloping plain where marmots were bobbing in and out of their burrows like toy animals manipulated by a string.
The marmots hibernate during the winter, and retire to their burrows early in October, not to emerge until April.
The burrows are shallow and terminate in a larger cavity lined with dry leaves.
The entrances to these burrows are under the water and it is my belief that they inhabit them only during the breeding season.
They are working almost all of the time, during the spring, summer and fall, extending the burrows in search of food.
Otters usually make burrows in the banks of streams, lining the nest with leaves and grass.
The burrows will be found from six to twelve inches beneath the surface of the ground, the usual depth being about eight inches.
Captain Burrows says of the skill with the bow of the Pygmy that "he will shoot three or four arrows, one after the other, with such rapidity that the last will have left the bow before the first has reached its goal.
Burrows says that they will never steal, but that they pay very inadequately for the plantains they take, leaving a very small package of meat in return for an ample supply of food.
Captain Guy Burrows says that a Pygmy will eat twice as much as would suffice a full-grown man, and that one of them will devour a whole stalk of bananas at a meal, with other food.
And in the depth of burrows the future larvae who live only for their stomachs, "little ogres, greedy of living flesh," must have their prey.
The Xylocopa, which burrows in the trunks of trees and old rafters, forming little round corridors in which to lodge her offspring, "will utilize artificial galleries which she has not herself bored.
Carpocapsa pomonella) whichburrows in the interior of apples.
It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burrows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
