Burrows

Krinak wound through tufts of crygrass and low mounds of sand, the lemkin burrows emerging from the ground all around him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I read "Tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Antarctica," which demonstrates that fossil burrows found at Wahl Glacier in the Beardmore Glacier region of the central Transantarctic Mountains (Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness") were made by an animal similar to the cynodont Thrinaxodon. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2008)

Rabbits usually live in burrows or tunnels in the ground, where they prefer to stay during daylight hours. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Habits differ according to habitat: rainforest Collared peccaries are diurnal, eat fruit, palm nuts and shrubs, and sleep in burrows, while desert populations are nocturnal, eat mostly cacti, and don’t use burrows. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Phrase by vivid phrase burrows into the memory like a fever dream -- from "A sugar cube in rain" to "a blindfolded balloon waiting for the slingshots" -- but the effect is somehow one of emotional reticence. ❋ Daniel J. Kushner (2011)

Science News reports that dinosaur fossils have been found in burrows. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He spends more than 95 percent of his life, which can last as long as a hundred years, in underground burrows, which is what any sane creature would do when faced with the Mojave Desert. ❋ Amy Wilentz (2006)

The burrowing owl, a very small and interesting animal that lives in burrows. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Westcote derives the name from 'Choldicombe, or rather Coldecombe, from its cold situation, next neighbour to Exmoor;' and he speaks of 'divers hillocks of earth and stones ... termed burrows and distinguished by sundry names,' in the parish, and hints at their uncanny nature by telling how 'fiery dragons have been seen flying and lighting on them.' ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)

After showing us the results we went down the Island to some of the study burrows that is to say a burrow that has a concrete block over the nesting area so that the block is removed and the ringers can easily access the chicks and adults.

Their food is simply the grass in the immediate vicinity of their burrows, which is cut close to the ground by their flat, shovel teeth; and, as they sometimes live twenty miles from any water, it is to be supposed that they get moisture enough from the dew on the grass, on which they feed chiefly at night; or that (as is generally supposed) they sink wells from their under-ground habitations, by which they descend low enough to get their supply. ❋ Unknown (1841)

I say 'burrows' rather than 'swims' because, on the bacterial scale of existence, a liquid such as water would not feel as a liquid feels to us. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)

"traces" - the fossil signs that animals left behind, such as burrows, trails, borings and footprints, but not their bodily remains. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s the dust you’ll kick up snouting round the rabbit burrows which is my concern.” ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1941)

Director Leigh Silverman never burrows down into what might have been a more tense, dramatic show, content to stay on the surface of Hwang's play and harvest what little humor he could. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

But it rages as acid burrows into my gut, and I barely make it to the hole. ❋ Unknown (2010)