Digs

Usage examples of burrows.

The burrows of mammals and insects and amphibians turned into tiny coffins.

Scott Burrows cornered Claudine in the staff cafeteria, easing uninvited into the vacant seat at her table.

There were separate offices for each psychologist and a communal conference area where Scott Burrows had hosted their argumentative seminars to occupy the empty days.

The fact that Burrows was a layman who had invented a science now practised by professionals was another familiar gambit.

Purga and Last were here, and other mammals, little ratlike creatures that had kept themselves alive in their underground burrows, warmed through this long winter by their constant body heat.

Here, too, were insects, snails, frogs, salamanders, snakes, creatures who had endured in burrows and riverbanks or deep holes.

So the primates dug, building burrows in which Purga would have felt comfortable.

In the burrows, the females still slept, consuming the last of their winter stores.

The burrows were not exactly warm inside, but the temperature never dropped below freezing.

Mole folk reproduced quickly, and as soon as the food supply picked up, the empty burrows and chambers would be full again.

Shielded from the excesses of the climate, moving from their burrows only when driven to mate, the rat-mouths had slow metabolisms and very small brains.

And then had come the extraordinary letter from a hitherto unknown firm of solicitors, informing her that she was the sole beneficiary under the will of a certain John William Burrows, who had left her not only the entire contents of his bank account, which amounted to some fifty thousand pounds, but also a comfortably sized but very dilapidated cottage, together with its large overgrown garden and several acres of land on the outskirts of a tiny Cheshire village.

Burrows had left his property Melanie still had no idea why on earth John Burrows had left his estate to her, and the solicitors had been as baffled as she was herself.

Apart from his cousin, it seemed that John Burrows had had no other family.

Melanie Foden to whom John Burrows had in tended to leave her inheritance.