...Those turf-heaps, mounds of potter’s clay, melted at the word of the soldiers like butter in the frying-pans of Friesland housewives...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...A thin covering of snow lay evenly alike on grass mounds and smooth stones...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... The country over which we had traveled from the Chobe was perfectly flat, except where there were large ant-hills, or the remains of former ones, which had left mounds a few feet high...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Both are water antelopes, and, when the lands we now tread upon are flooded, they betake themselves to the mounds I have alluded to...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I came acrossone of these mounds one day near Tsavo and opened it very carefully,but found nothing: possibly I did not pursue my search deep enough intothe earth...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...I own I thought these mounds were some kind of bird’sor animal’s nest...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
... The hut was swarming with rats and white ants, the former racing over our bodies during the night and burrowing through the floor, filling our only room with mounds like molehills...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...As we passed one or two fields, indications ofgophers appeared, their small mounds of earth coveringthe ground...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...The builders' men had distributed here and there in the harmas great mounds of sand and heaps of stones, with a view to running up some surrounding walls...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
... The burrows cover an extent of some ten square yards, and their mounds, which often come near enough to touch, average a distance of four inches at the most from one another...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...The soil is so much trodden under foot that the little mounds of refuse surrounding each burrow soon disappear and the site loses every sign of underground habitation...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
... July comes and already a few little mounds of fresh earth betoken work going on underground in preparation for an exodus in the near future...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
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