Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Still; quiet.

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Examples

  • He 's up in mamma's room, and was just saying, 'How 's Polly?' when I heard you come, in your creep-mouse way, and you must go right up.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • Soon after, the Tempest drove in four Thieves, who, not seeing such a little creep-mouse Girl as

    Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766 Anonymous

  • We deal in creep-mouse sentiment, and call it love.

    The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • He 's up in mamma's room, and was just saying, 'How 's Polly?' when I heard you come, in your creep-mouse way, and you must go right up.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1870

  • He 's up in mamma's room, and was just saying, 'How 's Polly?' when I heard you come, in your creep-mouse way, and you must go right up.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • Here are creep-mouse manners; and thievish manners.

    The Conduct of Life (1860) 1856

  • 'she is rather creep-mouse, but has no _other_ fault that I know of.

    Abbeychurch Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • It need not frighten you: it is a nothing of a part, a mere nothing, not above half a dozen speeches altogether, and it will not much signify if nobody hears a word you say; so you may be as creep-mouse as you like, but we must have you to look at. "

    Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1796

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