The mice in droves within his shop Have eaten an ounce of wool.

Just then a woman with red socks got up on her chair in the press seats and pulled her dress away up and yelled, "Rats!" and another woman screamed and jumped up on a seat with her clothes at half mast, and yelled that there were mice on the seats.

While the taking of Riga would not necessarily be a decisive blow, it would make the Baltic more than ever a German lake, leaving the Russian fleet in the position of the mouse in the rathole to the German cat, just as the Kaiser's fleet was the mouse to the English fleet outside.

He recalled that he used to chase and trap mice with all a boy's savage ingenuity.

But when Clarawho asked kindly after my little Janehad summoned us to the dining-room, I was presented to a small, quiet mouse of a woman whose head reached no higher than Dawson's heart.

Then have we the Bore or Cat that some again do name musculus or mouse for that it gnaweth through thick wallsand some do call this hog, sow, scrofa or sus, brother, and some again, vulpes.

It was while the ubiquitous Sweetwater was mousing about the room.

I desired a lock for my door, to prevent rats and mice from coming in.

It was a mouse by virtue of which Ephraim Tutt had leaped into fame.

but just on the Brocken, where the nicest girl among the dancers had the unpleasant peculiarity of dropping a little red mouse out of her mouthso too here under different forms there were red mice dropping about among the company.

She will then nibble-nibble at what he has got like a mouse into a store of good things.

" Bertie's face bore the same glad rapture that veils the countenance of a cat when she throws a mouse at your feet with a casual "How's that.

Jack betrayed not the least sign of excitement, and insisted on going down into the grub-room to feed two white mice before setting out for the "front."

The speaker was inspecting the other as a house cat inspects the mouse within its paws.

Plutarch, Cicero, etc. ("Parallel Lives.") God Almighty mustered up an army of mice against the archbishop [Hatto], and sent them to persecute him as his furious Alastors.

I verily believe the spiders are all asleep in the ivy, and the mice behind the wainscot, and the horses in the stable.' 'What could happen?' asked Lesbia, with a gentle elevation of pencilled brows.

She wanted to get the old grey cat into the kitchen to catch the mice during the night.

It fits the dear little mouse like a glove, and terminates in a collar which is an instrument of torture to a person whose patience has not been developed from year to year by similar trials.

From behind their battlemented wares the country mice waged wordy war with the town mice over the price of merchandise.

We cannot say that mankind has gone very far along the Fourfold Path, for there are still many of us who would rather be a mouse than nothing; yet it remains an accepted truth of the Buddhistic doctrine, that above this fleeting and variegated world there abides the element of calm.

"Come in, Come in!" THE TRYST Flee into some forgotten night and be Of all dark long my moon-bright company: Beyond the rumour even of Paradise come, There, out of all remembrance, make our home: Seek we some close hid shadow for our lair, Hollowed by Noah's mouse beneath the chair Wherein the Omnipotent, in slumber bound, Nods till the piteous Trump of Judgment sound.

Yet the scattered tracks of mink and musk-rat beside the banks, of meadow-mice around the hay-stacks, of squirrels under the trees, of rabbits and partridges in the wood, show the warm life that is beating unseen, beneath fur or feathers, close beside us.

" Roy's little face became illumined with smiles a moment after, when he saw two beautiful little white mice amongst the straw looking up at him with calm curiosity out of their bright beady eyes.

A cleft will run like a mouse across the floor.

For civilized man, in his latest art of war, has gone back to be taught one more simple lesson by the beasts of the field and birds of the air; the armed hosts are hushed and stilled by the passing air-machine, exactly as the finches and field-mice of hedgerow and ditch and field are frozen to stillness by the shadow of a hovering hawk, the beat of its passing wing.