Divers learned persons have conceiv’d the gopher mention’d in Holy Writ, Gen.
The same learned author will have gopher to signifie only pitch, or bitumen, as much as if the text had said, make an ark of resinous timber.
At last some one suggested that as the hard-baked earthen floor was the last place in which one would look for hidden treasures, that was probably the first and only place in which the Gopher had buried his gold.
This time there was no response or note of derision, and it was quietly conceded that The Gopher and all his gold were in the hands of the Coroner.
The Forks was disgusted, and the Gopher was voted a worse man dead than living.
The Gopher cheered perhaps more lustily than any one, for he admired the Widow, and knew her love and worth.
Not long after this it was discovered that the Gopher was not at work.
It was a bold and original thought of a candidate to approach the Gopher and solicit his vote.
And here the Gopher thundered his two fists down on to the pine-board table, and turning on his heel tottered out and up the hill-side to his cabin.
The Gopher thundered his fist down on the bar as he concluded, and the glasses there jumped up and clinked together, and bowed to each other, as if they had been dancers about to begin a cotillion.
Handley found that the weasels had been using as headquarters a burrow in the trunk of an old uprooted oak as well as a nearbygopher burrow.
In a distance of fifty feet along the gopher tunnel there were several used openings with pathways leading away from each.
Items recorded only in spring were pocketgopher and least weasel.
Nelson obtained the pocket gopher and found that its neck muscles were torn loose from the skull.
An investigation revealed a recently-killed pocket gopherwith its captor still in possession.
All of the 22 weasels taken by Alcorn [within a radius of 10 miles of Fallon] were obtained in gopher traps.
They were stored in a gopher burrow some two hundred yards distant.
A new pocket gopher (Genus Thomomys) from Wyoming and Colorado.
The old citizens had dug little cellars, which the soldiers called "gopher holes," and the women and children were crowded together in these cellars, while Sherman was trying to burn the city over their heads.
Josselyn gives us to understand that the wood of the white pine is that mentioned in the Scriptures asgopher wood out of which Noah built the ark.
The gopher wood of which Noah is said to have built his ark is believed by many to have been cypress, and, like the red cedar, Cupressus sempervirens is known to live to a very great age.
A New Pocket Gopher (Thomomys) and A New Spiny Pocket Mouse (Liomys) from Michoacan, Mexico BY E.
When she opened them again she found herself on Main Street in Gopher Prairie.
The "Harp and Trumpet" felicitates the citizens of Gopher Prairie on their acquisition of a charming and up-to-date young matron whose absence will be keenly regretted by her many friends in the heavenly younger married set.
Ye Editor that she would probably take up her residence inGopher Prairie, Minn.
The dinner was served in the cabin, and Gopher had done his best, as usual.
It was fifteen minutes before he returned, for Gopher insisted on using me as well as those that sat at the cabin-table when I was late to my meals, and cooked me a fresh dish of ham and eggs.
An oyster chowder and baked shad were the principal substantials of the lunch; and while they were served, Gopher was the greatest man on board.
We reached the boat an hour before dinner-time, and Gopherhad red snapper and spotted bass in a variety of styles for the meal.
I was blessed with a good appetite, and still liked country fare best, though Gopher made hotel dishes, with French names, for the after cabin.
Gopher was hard at work getting ready for the dinner, and Ben was expected to help him as soon as the party were on board.
Of course we used the octoroon as a waiter; and even Gopher took a hand at the same occupation, for he liked to hear what the party said about the dinner.
Then came the ground wave, rolling through the earth like a gopher through a garden.
But when Saturday came, Johnny was hobbling around the ranch on a wrenched ankle, suffered when his horse stumbled in a gopher hole and tossed him.
There being no wound upon its body was sufficient proof that the gopher had not used his teeth, and in no other way could he cause death.
One leg had gone into a gopher hole and become broken, and although the animal arose and tried to run, it was soon overtaken by Henry.
They were now coming to a locality where the prairie was broken up into little hummocks, with here and there gopher holes that were exceedingly dangerous.
You have got to keep the water going down the gopher hole, and you got to work like sixty.
I will bet you ten dollars that if you pick out the most successful business man in town, and go look at his left thumb nail, you will find a scar on it where a half-drowned gopher bit him, because he was at the hole at the right time.
Looks like a gopher had took a bite out of that lip.
Yes," put in Eve, "but how do we know that Gopher would ever have given her the note at all if we hadn't cornered him like a rat in a hole.
Gopher dressed in his borrowed white trousers appeared awkwardly carrying a tray.
As we came up the path Hamish caught sight of Gopher collecting plates.
XXV Gopher I DON'T know what I expected when I heard that key turn in the lock and knew that Hamish had at last succeeded in opening the door of the hidden cupboard.
Three or four times more the little animal put his small head and bright eyes out of the top of the hole, and each time Teddy made a grab for him; but the gopher was too quick.
Once more the gopher peeped up, as if wondering why in the world those two strange children did not go away and let him alone.
A gopher is a sort of squirrel-like rat, and on the prairies they make many holes which are dangerous if a horse suddenly steps into them.
At any rate, Clipclap and Star Face stayed where Ted and Janet left them, and the little Curlytops watched the gopher hole.
And we haven't any nice littlegopher to take to Trouble," said Janet sadly.
The gopher had dived down back into his hole as soon as he saw Teddy's first move.
Cowboys always dread gopher and prairie dog holes, especially at night when they can not be so easily seen.
It was not long before the gopher poked his nose out to see if his pursuer was near, and, catching sight of a ragged felt hat just above a clump of pigweed, stood up to investigate.
The little girl did not follow him, but stayed on the rim and pityingly viewed the limp gopher that lay, with eyes half closed, breast still, and tail thin and lifeless.
This shortened the snare, and the gopher came nearer, tumbling over and over through the grass.
Once, during the afternoon, a gopher stopped their work by getting away with the snare and leaving them only half of the string.
Alighting safely, and emboldened by success, he had eluded a hungry snake that hunted him across the gopher knolls, and finally gone on to the top of the hill.
But they found few signs of thegopher burrowing they felt sure had devastated the ground.
But when she had sat down musingly, her chin in her hands, a strange thing happened to the dead gopher on the meadow rim.
And, amid a whirl of dirt, gray tail, and tawny back, the gopherwas pulled out into the timothy.
But, as she retreated, the string tightened again, and the gopher advanced as before.
It is not the gopher that I care for so much--it is the principle.
A minute ago you were roasting me because my aim was too good," he contended mildly, glancing involuntarily toward thegopher stretched upon its little, yellow back, its four small feet turned pitifully up to the blue.
It isn't every common, scrub gopher that can have a real funeral with mourners and music when he goes over the Big Divide.
Weary aimed carefully at a venturesome and highly inquisitive gopher and pulled, with some effort, the rusted trigger.
A little, fresh mound marked the spot where the dead gopherhad been, and a narrow strip of shingle stood upright at the end.
The gopher leaped and rolled backward and then lay still, and Miss Satterly gave a little, startled scream and jumped quite off the doorstep.
A gopher is only a little bigger than a chipmunk, and usually pokes nothing more than his head out of his hole, so when I got thirteen out of fifteen shots I began to feel that I was a sharp-shooter.
But don't regard this as wanton cruelty, for the gopher is worse than a rat, and in this country the government agents supply homesteaders with an annual allowance of free strychnine to poison them off.
A gopher in front of his hole beat Jack-in-the-box at his disappearing trick.
Over its surface, pockmarked withgopher holes, tumbleweed rolled and billowed and stacked against rocks and fallen timber in uncanny, shifting masses.
Noah had begun building a vast ship, of a size well beyond the scope of any known shipwright of the day, out of gopher wood.
Polly was looking sorrowfully at a rent in her pretty gauze gown, and Button-Bright's fox head had stuck fast in a gopher hole and he was wiggling his little fat legs frantically in an effort to get free.
And I saw the gopher holes, too, and the dead stump; but they're not here now.
Chapter 11 PESTS AND PETS The pocket gopher is an herbivorous animal which attains approximately the size of a gray squirrel.
I have purposely allowed a pocket gopher to bite me, to determine what the effects are.
The traps were a size larger than the common gopher trap, but were not expensive.
I am still of the opinion, however, that to meat-eating people, the pocket gopher would taste as good as squirrel or pigeon.
I thought there was a gopherin this tent last night.
After working it six hours, the gopher came out to get a drink.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gopher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat; sycophant
