Quotes About Burrow

They can only burrow a few metres deep.

The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.

Burr, oi'm pow'ful 'ungry, give oi a scone, missus!" "No no, you nasty rough mole, one is quite sufficient!" "Hurr, then give oi summ zoop, marm." "Soup? Lack a season, the ruffian will eat us out of house and burrow. Go away and be off with you, you gluttonous beast!

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.

january 21 Cloudy and still. On the sunny, southerly face of a cutbank, a badger has scooped a new burrow, turning the slope inside out and pouring it full of the very worst kind of darkness, the kind animals own, like the mad black slit in a goat's eye.

Meanwhile, the mole goes on with its subterranean daydreams, The dogs lie around like rugs

The contagious sound of women's laughter filled the warm, tidy burrow.

But for physical effort on the bug's own part, the prize still goes to worms such as hookworms and schistosomes, which actively burrow through a host's skin from the water or soil into which their larvae had been excreted in a previous victim's feces. Thus

It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

Or he could have dug a tunnel.