Which preposition to use with dormouse
I hid my head within a Convent, there Lay passive as a dormouse in mid winter.
He controlled himself, however, and, jerking round again to the fireplace, went on murmuring, "Yes, yes, yes," vaguelyjust like the dormouse at the Mad Tea-Party, who went to sleep, saying, "Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle," Cary could not help thinking to himself.
ALICE AND THE DORMOUSE From a photograph by Elliott and Fry. FACSIMILE OF A "LOOKING-GLASS" LETTER FROM LEWIS CARROLL TO MISS EDITH BALL ARTHUR HUGHES AND HIS DAUGHTER AGNES From a photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863.
The last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.