...The pieces of artillery were hidden under mounds of branches, the gunners having felled trees in order to mask their monsters more perfectly...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... The ground rose in little mounds and ridges aboutthe base of the bole, the tree tilted—in another moment it would beuprooted and fall...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...I own I thought these mounds were some kind of bird’sor animal’s nest...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West 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」
...; averaging perhaps a mile long by 200 yards broad, and broken by mounds and terraces regular as if worked by art...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...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」
...After the dirt is all thrown out, it closes the branch passage, packing the ground in solidly, so that the only visible signs of the burrow are the mounds of ground...
Elmer Harry Kreps 「Science of Trapping」
...Near one of these mounds, on the Upper Snowy River, in thewild cherry scrub, we observed a nest at a height of about thirtyfeet from the ground...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...They burrow under the light soil and throw it up in mounds like moles...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
... 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」
...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」
..., Bailey reports (and this was recently confirmed by Vorhies)that the mounds about the holes of spectabilis are often hardlynoticeable...
Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor 「Life History of the Kangaroo Rat」
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