Squirrels hibernate; moles sleep away the dead of winter; frogs retire to the depths of ponds; slugs bury themselves in the soil; dormice doze in well-lined crannies among the boles of hazels.
Yet his cousinship stands him in small stead with his big purblind relation; for moles catch and eat shrews in considerable numbers.
Our thoughts wandered away irresistibly to those times when the Christians lived here like moles underground, until they died, and were laid by the loving and devoted hands of their comrades in these dark shelves of the rock.
On arriving, however, from the sea, it is a lively scene inside the harbour; the moles and creeks crowded with shipping, all trimly stowed in serried rows.
Investigation has been taken out of the hands of the ground-moles and given, as a task, to the true and only true thinkers, the men of ardent imagination.
My feet sank in the mould of the ancient dead, soft as if thousands of graveyard moles were for ever burrowing in it, as down and down I went, settling and sliding with the black plane.
For to fancy we go into the other world a set of spiritual moles burrowing in the dark of a new and unknown existence, is worthy only of such as have a lifeless Law to their sire.
The silky-coated moles in their runs offer more serious work, and being most successfully practised at night, offers an additional charm.
We received so much per head for the capture of these, as also for moles which tunnelled the banks of the water meadows.
Sometimes cats catch moles when they come out on top of the ground, thinking them a sort of mouse.
Moles dig deep down, too, under the surface where no one can see them, and when they do not uproot the grass or the garden plants, they do little harm.
Mice, moles and pismires cause the jaundies in trees, known by the discolour of the leaves and buds.
No nest cavities were discernible where the eggs were found, but elsewhere in the field tunnels of moles (Scalopus aquaticus) and prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) were exposed by the plow.
Probably other clutches are destroyed underground by such predators as moles and egg-eating snakes, and still others by insects.
Nests were at depths of four to eight inches in old tunnels, which most often seemed to be those of moles but also included some of the prairie vole, and perhaps some of the pine vole (Microtus pinetorum).
Moles are sometimes so placed as to improve rather than injure a fine face.
Moles are such enemies to the smell of garlic, that, in order to get rid of these troublesome and destructive guests, it is sufficient to introduce a few heads of garlic into their subterraneous walks.
The most effective, the most spectacular, and probably the worst innings of the School Eleven was that played byMoles White.
Moles White was as enormous and ugly in his dimensions as he was genial and simple in face.
Moles seized Doe by the throat and pretended to push him into the water, but characteristically saved him from falling by placing an arm round his waist.
Another, who had still two bullets in his body, had been with our schoolfellow Moles White in the River Clyde on the great April morning.
Moles has gone a belly-flopper," shouted the crowd, as it wept with laughter.
Moles White, who was now the house-captain, was occupied two afternoons later in discussing with the bloods of Bramhall the composition of the House Swimming Four for the Inter-house relay races.
Don't presume to contradict me, Moles White, or I'll lick you!
Doe looked sadly through the broken pane and said: "Isn't Moles a corking old thing?
I mentioned Moles White as a fine slow bowler, and could think of no more "star-turns.
One minute before this he was an irresponsible baby "cheeking" Moles White; now he was the germinal man, borne down with the weight of life.
People ran about with burning torches, commanding the moles and field-mice to go forth.
They bid the moles and field-mice to depart from their orchards, threatening to break their bones and burn their beards if they tarry.
But when the moles become too numerous, they are hurtful to vegetation, and require to be destroyed.
Her eyes were more alert, her voice was less monotonous; and those little black moles looked particularly fascinating on the ivory white of her skin, fairly luminous in the sunlight.
He suddenly realized that she was beautiful, in spite of the three little black moles on her face--he detested moles--and smiled in return.
This poor little fellow whispered to another boy, that moles were blemishes or not, just as people happened to think them, but, as for his part, he thought nothing about the matter.
No sooner was this sublime expectation of happiness planted firmly in the minds of pagans, than they threw their idols to the moles and the bats.
He knows of hundreds of cases, he says, where cancer has resulted from the irritation of moles by an electric needle, or by constant picking it.
On the other hand, if I were right, Esther would no doubt be convinced for the moment, but her belief would speedily disappear if she chanced to discover that the correspondence of moles on the human body was a necessary law of nature.
He would make surface soldiers out of these blind moles of the earth, put amber glasses on them and train them to run on the open ground and carry the war again into the sunlight.
Moles are essentially carnivorous; and when fed abundantly on vegetable substances they have died of hunger.
If two Moles should happen to meet in the same road, one must retreat into the nearest alley, unless they fight, when the weakest is often slain.
Moles are good swimmers, and their bite is very sharp; their attacks are ferocious, and they keep their hold like a bull-dog.
Some mole-catchers will tell you the hours when the Moles move are nine and four; others that near the coast their movements are influenced by the tides.
Thus it would be madness not to extirpate Moles in those places where the waters, in drains or rivers, are above the level of the lands around, especially when the banks are made of sand or earth of loose texture.
In frosty weather both worms and moles are deeper in the ground than at other times; and both seem to be sensible of an approaching change to warmer weather before there are any perceptible signs of it in the atmosphere.
When all was ready, Le Court blew a blast loud enough to frighten all the Moles within hearing.
In diameter the road exceeds the body of a Mole, but its size will not admit of two Moles passing each other.
When it is observed, therefore, that Moles are casting hills through openings in the frozen turf or through a thin covering of snow, a change to open weather may be shortly expected.
Into this pipe he introduced several Moles successively.
Cuvier tells us that if two Molesare shut up together without food, there will shortly be nothing left of the weakest but its skin, slit along the belly!
Buffon accuses Moles of eating all the acorns of a newly-set soil.
The persecution of Molesin cultivated countries amounts almost to a war of extermination.
It is interesting to notice that the {515} adaptation to a digging life is brought about in quite a different way from that of the true Moles (Talpa).
It has lately been said[396] that Moles store up earthworms for consumption during the winter, biting off their heads to prevent their crawling away.
They are Moles in habit, and the eyes are covered with skin; the ears, moreover, have no conches.
This is one of the most abundant of the birds of prey in Eastern United States, and it is also one of the most useful, destroying quantities of moles and field mice, as well as grasshoppers.
They are useful hawks, their food consisting chiefly of insects andmoles or mice.
The duckmoles are seen at all times in the rivers of Australia, especially during the spring and summer.
In the zoölogical garden at Melbourne duck moles have occasionally been kept of late years, but none have, thus far, reached Europe or America alive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
