例文・使い方で印象づける「mounds」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...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」
... 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」
...The rain poured down incessantly, but we formed our beds by dragging up the earth into oblong mounds, somewhat like graves in a country church-yard, and then placing grass upon them...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...There are great mounds of soft red sand slightly coherent, which crumble in the hand with ease...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The party looked exceedingly picturesque as, the ostrich feathers of the men waving in the air, they wound in a long line in and out among the mounds...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...We had sand all day, rising occasionallyin considerable mounds...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...Now multiply the size of one mound by thenumber of mounds, and you will have some idea ofthe work done by this pair...
Ernest Thompson Seton 「Wild Animals at Home」
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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」
... 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 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」
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