church-mouse

• “Throughout the entire journey, Im church-mouse quiet, not sharing even one noun, verb, or adjective with him.”

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• “Some Texas schools are considering passing up on a front-row seat in a democracy lesson during the March 4 primary to keep their campuses visitor-free and church-mouse quiet during the opening day of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.”

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• “A time when as church-mouse poor college students we would splurge and spend a couple of early Saturday morning hours at Kate's Kitchen.”

  Saturday morning...

• “But what he thought he'd find at a church-mouse poor downtown parish is beyond me.”

  trinityboy Diary Entry

• “She seemed to be as poor as a church-mouse, too, from the state of her clothing.”

  Phoenix And Ashes

• “Tom was as poor as a church-mouse, and had nothing on earth to look to except the fruits of his professional industry, which, judging from all appearances, would be a long time indeed in ripening.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847

• “A little church-mouse ran along the rail, and stopped a moment at the baptismal basin, but, finding no water left by careless sexton there, it continued its journey up the pulpit-stairs, and I saw the hungry little thing go gnawing at the corner of the Book wherein is the Bread of Life.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862

• “He might be as rich as Midas, or as poor as a church-mouse.”

  Austin and His Friends

• “So the stupid old soul remained as poor as a church-mouse.”

  Roumanian Fairy Tales

• “Even if he were poorer than a church-mouse I'd marry him.”

  The Quest

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