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.

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

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

He was as quiet as a mouse until, discovering that his favorite dessert was being served, he could no longer curb his enthusiasm.

She was as modest as a mouse beside him.

A cleft will run like a mouse across the floor.

"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.

He compared his feelings, not inaptly, to those of a cat watching a mouse through a window.