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  • Moments later, the ground surged upward with a roar as smoke and flame shot from the burrow's entrance.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Sensing the approach of the burrow's owner, the black litah growled a warning as it moved off to one side.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • He followed such runways as appeared to terminate in the pits or other chambers of the inhabitants of the city, and these he explored, usually from the safety of a burrow's mouth, until satisfied that what he sought was not there.

    The Chessmen of Mars 1922

  • He followed such runways as appeared to terminate in the pits or other chambers of the inhabitants of the city, and these he explored, usually from the safety of a burrow's mouth, until satisfied that what he sought was not there.

    The Chessmen of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Other vizcachas soon begin to appear, each one quietly taking up his station at his burrow's mouth, the females, known by their greatly inferior size and lighter grey colour, sitting upright on their haunches, as if to command a better view, and indicating by divers sounds and gestures that fear and curiosity struggles in them for mastery; for they are always wilder and sprightlier in their motions than the males.

    The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

  • The site's geology as well as the burrow's design also suggests the animals headed underground to tolerate weather extremes.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011

  • To achieve a recognizable odor, naked mole-rats often roll about in the burrow's toilet chamber, coating their body with the familiar scent of the colony's feces and urine.

    KRDO.com 2010

  • The borough is pushing for a social housing development on the Hippodrome de Montréal property, having zoned the area residential in the burrow's urban plan.

    The Westmount Examiner 2009

  • My challenges: coleus, cactus, burrow's tail sedum, rosemary, and flap jack sedum.

    Blog, Blah, Blah 2008

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