According to his account it was totally unfit for rearing sheep on a large scale; the bushes and grass being so full of burrs that the wool was completely spoiled.
There are three varieties of kangaroos on the island, and plenty of wildfowl on some of the lagoons; so that supplies are abundant: but the few sheep he possessed were rendered of little value from the burrs I have before mentioned.
When the water recedes, leaving the opening uncovered, the burrow must be dug deeper, and the economy of a perpendicular burrow must immediately suggest itself.
I think that after the winter has passed, and while the marsh is still covered with water, impregnation takes place and burrows are immediately begun.
In his run across country, leaves, twigs and burrs had become entangled in his long hair, and his legs and underparts were caked with mire.
You are weel set up in life, laddie, and Heriot's has pulled the warst of the burrsfrom your tongue.
Nearly all the burrs had been pulled from Tammy's tongue, but he used a Scotch word now and then, no' to shame Ailie's less cultivated speech.
Old man Hagerman has been mowing all the rag-weed and cuckle-burrs along the line of march, and the lawns have had an unusual amount of shaving and sprinkling.
Nuts grow in racemes of burrs with as many as 10 burrs on one stem.
Later on, the habit of this tree changed somewhat and some of the burrs had more than one nut.
Chestnut burrs had opened up and the nuts enclosed were fully mature.
A large wreath and a low bowl of nut burrs and sprays of bright leaves and berries make a gorgeous centerpiece.
These burrs in the tender inner part of a dog's foot, if not removed at once, soon lame it.
During the past nights in the valley, though their master was keeping a sharp lookout, they encountered several places where sand-burrs were plentiful.
Page 158)] Chinkapins being so small, and only one in a burr, you can imagine they are not easy to gather until Jack Frost comes along with his sharp fingers and splits open all the tiny burrs on all the little chinkapin trees.
In crossing a field to look at the river our clothes became covered with burrs and spines from the prickly pear.
In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb.
The French burrs which Tibbald preferred come over in fragments, and these are carefully fitted together and stuck with plaster of Paris.
These old French burrs be the best stone; they be hard, but they be mild and takes the peck well.
So they gathered up their skirts and filled them withburrs and then helped each other back over the fence.
When the stock of burrs was entirely used up, Alice set the houses along in a straight line as though they were on a street.
They're an awful nuisance, burrs are, even this early in the season.
Let's gather a lot of burrs and take them over to Grandmother's front yard.
He laid in the burrs until dark, then made his escape and rejoined his company at Springfield.
As to the burrs under the saddle, they might have got there by accident.
Putting burrs under the saddle of his old mule to get up an artificial enthusiasm.
He owned a mule, whose demeanor could not be changed one iota by all the burrs in the State of Michigan.
A man who would put burrs under his saddle, whether that saddle was on a horse or a mule, deserved the severest condemnation.
The burrs are about 4 feet in diameter and 11/2 foot thick.
Can a pair of burrs of the above size be run in that way, and if so, what is the maximum speed at which they can be run?
We have a pair of burrs on which we grind plaster.
Stand out of my way, boys--catch all the burrs on your own heads and don't let one fall on Miss Derrick.
Faith took a general view as she came up, and then fell upon the chestnut burrs like the rest of them; and no boy there worked more readily or joyously.
The burrs disappeared fast; the brown nuts gathered into an immense heap.
Plantain and burrs had crept into the barnyard, and the fields were giving way on every hand to brambles, sumac and willows.
The burrs in the virgin wool scratched like pins and needles.
When we finally emerge we are covered from head to foot with large prickly burrs from the seeding burdocks, as well as with the small round burrs of the goose-grass.
See that there are noburrs or lumps of mud in the fur, before you do any fleshing.
If possible take a bitch skunk for the first as they flesh easier, and be sure there are no burrs or chunks of mud in the fur, or you will cut a hole the size of the burr.
I found those others in the wood violets; these match the young chestnuts just breaking from the burrs after the first frost.
With the aid of comb and scissors, Salome eventually got the burrs out of Lionel Hezekiah's crop of curls.
I--I just stuck the burrs in 'cause I was playing I was a heathen chief," sobbed Lionel Hezekiah.
With a knife which Cresap had given me, I sat down to scrape the mud and filth from my hunting-shirt and to pick out the burrs and docks which clotted the fringe on my leggings.
That will make about ten or twelve burrs to be removed.
The little woodsey house of Burdock-burrs with ornamental trees of grass.
Take out the burrsfor the window and make the opening three or four burrs high and two burrs wide.
Stick ten or twelve burrs together in a row with pink heads all pointing in the same direction.
The burrs are squeezed up tight to the grass-stems and then pressed down tight to the ground.
Always pull the burrs of one player off the target before the next player takes her turn, and there will be no question as to who should claim them.
Get a good-sized piece of woollen cloth or some kind of material with a rough surface to which the burrs will cling.
Some of the cattails can be made to look as if they were growing in the pond if you make a flat-bottomed ball of burrs around the ends of the stems to hold them upright (Fig.
The burrs that stick to the target make the score if they are in the numbered spaces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burrs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
