46 Words to use with mice

I'll get a mouse-trap in a minute, And bait with cheese that's smelly To bring him helter-skelly That little empty belly, And then I'll have him in it.

But the Government troops never ventured up the valley which was like a mouse-hole with a Carlist cat waiting round the corner to cut them off.

~Lamenting the Absence of a Cherished Friend~ Though small my basket, all my toil Filled it with mouse-ears but in part.

The snow in the mouse wind.

The mouse has given us numerous names, such as mouse-ear (Hieracium pilosella), mouse-grass (Aira caryophyllea), mouse-ear scorpion-grass (Myosotis palustris), mouse-tail (Myosurus minimus), and mouse-pea.

quiet, tranquility, calm; repose &c 687; peace; dead calm, anticyclone^; statue-like repose; silence &c 203; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep &c (inactivity) 683. pause, lull &c (cessation) 142; stand still; standing still &c v.; lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo.

I come now to a small event which occurred during my judgeship, and which I call my little mouse story.

She is what is called a mouse-color, and is the fattest mule in the team.

The reply of Bertrand du Gueslin calls to mind that of Douglas, called "The Good sir James," the companion of Robert Bruce, "It is better, I ween, to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep," i.e. It is better to keep the open field than to be shut up in a castle.

We had seen more kangaroos on these plains than on any other portion of our route; one that was shot resembled the Osphranter, and was in very good order, the fur much thicker and softer than the common kangaroo of the western coast, and of a pale mouse colour.

The Romans deposed their Dictator, Minutius, and the general of their cavalry, Caius Flaminius, on the same day they had been elected, because one of the citizens of Rome had heard a mouse squeak.

Now, certainly, whether mouse meat be or be not deleterious to health a guest at a hotel who orders a portion of kidney stew has the right to expect, and the hotel keeper impliedly warrants, that such dish will contain no ingredients beyond those ordinarily placed therein.

call'd the "Maüsethurm" (mouse tower), so named from the circumstance of Bishop Hatto having been devoured therein by rats according to the tradition.

When, therefore, Hyacinth was standing at night at his window and Roseblossom at hers, and the pussies ran by on a mouse-hunt, they would see both standing, and would often laugh and titter so loudly that the children would hear them and grow angry.

I have heard such squeaking from that corner during the past week that I told sister there must be a mouse nest in that bed."

Surely it had not been so mouse-gray and shabby as this when she had been there.

He chose a pair the color of feuillemort, quickly slipped them on, put on a pair of buttoned shoes, donned the mouse grey suit which was checquered with a lava gray and dotted with black, placed a small hunting cap on his head and threw a blue raincoat over him.

Yet it is doubtful whether without his mouse Ephraim Tutt would ever have been heard of at all, and same would equally have been true if when pursued by the chef's gray cat the mouse aforesaid had jumped in another direction.

Now and then one gets a hint of some small, brown creature, rat or mouse kind, that slips secretly among the rocks; no others adapt themselves to desertness of aridity or altitude so readily as these ground inhabiting, graminivorous species.

" She crept in, mouse-like, and a distant burst of music wafted in with her, causing her to turn and quickly close the door.

Here are creep-mouse manners, and thievish manners.

Because the mice lick meal at Rome, you say.

This was keener hunting; for the wood-mouse moves like a ray of light, and always makes at least one false start to mislead any that may be watching for him.

The mouse has given us numerous names, such as mouse-ear (Hieracium pilosella), mouse-grass (Aira caryophyllea), mouse-ear scorpion-grass (Myosotis palustris), mouse-tail (Myosurus minimus), and mouse-pea.

The aitch-bone (3), the mouse-round (5), the thin flank (8), the chuck (11), the leg-of-mutton piece (12), the brisket (13).

46 Words to use with  mice