...Translucent stalks rose from the mounds and sprouted huge buds thatburst and blossomed into flaming flowers a foot in diameter, thenwithered and went to seed in a moment of time...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...A thin covering of snow lay evenly alike on grass mounds and smooth stones...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...There are but few trees in this valley: those which stand on the mounds were nearly all transplanted by Santuru for shade...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...There were also numerous mounds, the work of termites, which are literally gigantic structures, and often wild date-trees were seen growing on them...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...I observed the prevailingwinds in the formation of these mounds; for thereis always an inclined plane towards the quarterwhence the wind blows; whilst to where it blowsthe mounds are scarped...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...Next count the mounds that are within a radius offifty paces; probably all are the work of thisGopher, or rather this pair, for they believe inteam play...
Ernest Thompson Seton 「Wild Animals at Home」
...The nests are usually built on a sandypoint of an island; they are mounds of earth, grassand rubbish from one to two feet in height, thetop being hollowed to receive the eggs...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
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"The Indian rhinoceros has the same habit as the African species ofdepositing its droppings in one spot till they form huge mounds,which the animal levels with its horns...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Behind us loomed SentinelButte, and all around the rolling surfacewas broken by chains of hills, by patches of badlands, or by isolated, saddle-shaped mounds...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...The sandy mounds afforded them concealment, and enabled them to watch the proceedings of the savages in the plain below...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
... In the distance was a mammothfield of graves, miles of graves, beautifully kept mounds under whichlay the dead heroes of that sad time...
Virginia Sharpe Patterson 「Dickey Downy」
...The mounds of earthwere so small as to be hardly noticed...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...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」
... Operations begin in April, most unobtrusively, the only sign of the underground works being the little mounds of fresh earth...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...In August, 1955, abnormally high water, a result of hurricane "Connie", rose four to five feet and covered all but the tops of the bushes and a few mounds of sand...
Glen E. Woolfenden 「Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima」
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