Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rodent animal, Arvicola agrestis, also called the short-tailed field-mouse or meadow-mouse. See
Arvicolinœ and vole.
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Examples
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His thoughts ran on the old legend of the field-vole who mated with a wood-mouse of high degree, and whose descendants to this day bear the marks of their noble origin.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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The taunt had been flung at him by a stout field-vole, and, by reason of its novelty as well as of its intrinsic impertinence, had sunk deep into his memory.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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Even supposing it possible that animals, such as the red deer and the native ox _might_ have swam across the Straits of Dover or the Irish Channel, to graze anew over deposits in which the bones and horns of their remote ancestors had been entombed long ages before, the feat would have been surely far beyond the power of such feeble natives of the soil as the mole, the hedgehog, the shrew, the dormouse, and the field-vole.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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