Which preposition to use with burrowed

in Occurrences 55%

These animals are found throughout the plains, living together in a sort of society; their numberless burrows in their "towns" adjoin each other, so that great care is necessary in riding through these places, as the ground is so undermined as often to fall in under the weight of a horse.

into Occurrences 15%

He lay there, half in the light and half in the shadow, gripping the rocks with his hands, burrowing into the cool herbage above and the mountain flowers; clinging, catching hold, despairing, yet seizing everything he could grasp,the tender grass, the rolling stones.

under Occurrences 14%

Winged things, with the exception of the owls, who were a tenth part body and nine-tenths feathers, burrowed under snow-drifts or found shelter in thick spruce.

of Occurrences 10%

East to the foot of Black Mountain, and north and south without counting, are the burrows of small rodents, rat and squirrel kind.

for Occurrences 8%

Here he burrowed for a moment, presently emerging with a box.

like Occurrences 6%

They couldn't pass, and as the evening fell the barrier still held, covering the German working parties, burrowed like moles in the mass of trenches and boyeaux.

through Occurrences 5%

The plants afflicted with the malady are found to be infested by a mould, consisting of fine tubular filaments, termed hyphoe, which burrow through the substance of the potato plant, and appropriate to themselves the substance of their host; while, at the same time, directly or indirectly, they set up chemical changes by which even its woody framework becomes blackened, sodden, and withered.

with Occurrences 5%

Others live in burrows with trapdoors.

beneath Occurrences 4%

One might camp on the rugged shores of these bright fountains for weeks, without meeting any animal larger than the marmots that burrow beneath glacier boulders along the edges of the meadows.

by Occurrences 3%

We felt that we were at the mouth of the burrow by which Leith and his dancers had entered, and we moved into the shadow to reconnoitre.

on Occurrences 3%

The air in the narrow channel was stifling; yet, he burrowed on, and heard again the heavy impact.

within Occurrences 2%

These rats, which destroy crops and fields, build their burrows within the bunds.

amongst Occurrences 2%

Her father only remained unobservant of the subtle change, but he was like a mole burrowing amongst his book and gloating secretly over the box which he concealed at the approach of footsteps, the opening of a door, and the sound of a voice in a distant part of the house.

at Occurrences 2%

The inhabitants had burrowed at last in the earth, like the dumb creatures of the swamps and forests.

near Occurrences 2%

Those burrows near the stream were less than six inches deep, and there was a gradual increase in depth as the distance from the stream became greater.

to Occurrences 2%

Then he worked back down one or another of the nearly parallel ranges that lie out desertward, and so down to the sink of the Mojave River, burrowing to oblivion in the sand,a big mysterious land, a lonely, inhospitable land, beautiful, terrible.

as Occurrences 1%

By some strange craft, the wasp knows exactly where to pierce them with her sting, so as to stupefy, but not to kill, just as the sand-wasps of our banks at home stupefy the large weevils which they store in their burrows as food for their grubs.

past Occurrences 1%

And above all, be quite sure that while you are amusing yourself with the Piccadilly Tube, the wily Boche isn't burrowing past you, and under my parapet, by the Bakerloo!

among Occurrences 1%

She spent long hours burrowing among the piles of merchandise in the underground chamber beneath the store, where were kept the goods bought and brought to Roaring Water Portage when the waters were open.

after Occurrences 1%

See a team of Skyes racing up a hillside after a fugitive rabbit, tirelessly burrowing after a rat, or displaying their terrier strategy around a fox's earth or an otter's holt, and you will admit that they are meant for sport, and are demons at it.

toward Occurrences 1%

Somehow, for the first time since landing, Rudolph perceived that through this difficult, troubled, ignorant present, a man might burrow toward a future gleam.

amid Occurrences 1%

"We will burrow amid these small bushes until daylight, an' then, if necessary, go to roost.

along Occurrences 1%

At the spot where we stood the ceiling had fallen in and the original passage been blocked, but a cutting had been made from this point through the chalk to form the narrow burrow along which we had come.

from Occurrences 1%

FIRST OWL Mole, burrowing from nether to upper night THE CAT Is she with us?

Which preposition to use with  burrowed