593 examples of burrow in sentences

For the Cascabel has a fancy for living in the Lapo's burrow, as does the rattlesnake in that of the prairie dog in the Western United States, and in the same friendly and harmless fashion; and is apt, when dug out, to avenge himself and his host by a bite which is fatal in a few hours.

FIRST A RABBIT in front of his burrow, CHOIR OF UNSEEN BIRDS.

In fact, it was a region of holes and corners, calculated to illustrate that great advantage of London life, which a friend of Boswell's described by saying, that a man could there be always "close to his burrow."

The "burrow" which received the luckless wight, was indeed no pleasant refuge.

The pus formed in this condition may remain confined to the coronet and break through the skin as an ordinary abscess, or it may, before so doing, burrow beneath the wall, and invade the sensitive laminæ.

The pus, instead of continuing its discharge thereat, is made to burrow in other directions.

And to preserve the crystal clearness of the water, some Mussels may be allowed to burrow in the sand, where they will perform the office of animated filters.

We are past your burrow now.

Here, peeping rabbit [to a Page at the door], out of your burrow, and show these gentles to their lodgings.

For the friendship of the discreet lover falls not before the mine of such false and felon pryers as burrow privily into their neighbour's secret love.

In speaking of wolves he says: "They always burrow underground to bring forth their young, and though it is natural to suppose them very fierce at those times, yet I have frequently seen the Indians go to their dens and take out the young ones and play with them.

"I send this letter," writes a young Zouave, "as I sit huddled under an earth-heap at twenty yards from a German trench, less to be envied than a rabbit in its burrow, because when the hunter is far away it can come out and feed at pleasure.

209; rents not fallen in consequence, iii. 56, 226; Burke, described by, iii. 178, n. 1; burrow, near one's, i. 82, n. 3; iii. 379; censure escaped in it, See below, freedom from censure; centre of learning, ii. 75; circulating libraries, i. 102, n. 2; ii. 36.

The snake had crushed its prey to a pulp; and not more than a couple of feet away another iguana was still busily, and with entire unconcern, engaged in making its burrow.

© 16Aug33; A64777. R. J. Burrough (A); 14Aug61; R280242. BURROW, MRS.

Mrs. Max Call, Mrs. Trev Burrow, Cleve Cunningham (C) & Mrs. Eugene Cunningham (W); 7Nov61; R284587.

SEE Fyleman, Rose. BURROW, MRS.

SEE Elson, William H. BURROW, MRS.

Mrs. Eugene Cunningham (W), Mrs. Max Call, Mrs. Trev Burrow & Cleve Cunningham (C); 21Apr61; R274846.

Mrs. Eugene Cunningham (W), Mrs. Max Call, Mrs. Trev Burrow & Cleve Cunningham (C); 20Jul62; R298660.

Burrow & Cleve Cunningham (C); 20Jul62; R298659.

Then the cat and the otter told the rat that he must collect all the rats of the neighbourhood and they must burrow through the wall and find some way of abstracting the magic ring.

"I lean my left on Mount Jura," he used to say, "my right on the Alps, and I have the beautiful Lake of Geneva in front of my camp, a beautiful castle on the borders of France, the hermitage of Delices in the territory of Geneva, a good house at Lausanne; crawling thus from one burrow to another, I escape from kings.

The wood-chuck, a marmot and a strategist, makes his burrow in the middle of a field, where he must see you ere

" A literal reprint of an old author may be of value in two ways: the orthography may in certain cases indicate the ancient pronunciation, or it may put us on a scent which shall lead us to the burrow of a word among the roots of language.

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