gopher-holes

Lute almost caught up amongst the trees, but was hopelessly outdistanced on the fallow field adjoining, across which the mare tore with a fine disregard for heavy ground and gopher-holes.

Jack London's Short Story - Planchette 2010

My hand went back in search: there was no time to look: the prairie just here was cut up with little gopher-holes and criss-crossed by tiny canals from the main _acequia_, or irrigating ditch.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

You know what such speed as that is at night with the gopher-holes and other ankle-breakers!

The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

Pounding away into the darkness, heedless of gopher-holes, sunken spots, and other dangers, the two sped.

The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

The going was more or less rough and Pill dodged many gopher-holes, to the peril of his rider's equilibrium.

Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

Lute almost caught up amongst the trees, but was hopelessly outdistanced on the fallow field adjoining, across which the mare tore with a fine disregard for heavy ground and gopher-holes.

Planchette 1906

My hand went back in search: there was no time to look: the prairie just here was cut up with little gopher-holes and criss-crossed by tiny canals from the main _acequia_, or irrigating ditch.

Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Charles King 1888

The ground was honey-combed with gopher-holes, and the gophers themselves were everywhere.

The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886

An important rumor had spread among the tents and gopher-holes, and, one after another, the citizens visited the saloon, took the barkeeper mysteriously aside, and, with faces denoting the greatest concern, whispered earnestly to him.

Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

They ain't satisfied till they drive every gentleman out of the darned gopher-holes they call their

Susy, a story of the Plains Bret Harte 1869