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  • noun Plural form of fieldmouse.

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Examples

  • Personally, i'd read a story that treated vampires as fieldmice, rather than love interests....

    gillpolack: I promised more comments on new Angry Ro gillpolack 2009

  • So, wile you think of a nice parting quip to end this post, I'll think about genre and sub-genre and why vampires are more often depicted as love interest than, say, fieldmice.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • He says that science has progressively removed the justification for religion – believers are like fieldmice retreating before a combine harvester, into an ever-smaller patch of wheat.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • He says that science has progressively removed the justification for religion – believers are like fieldmice retreating before a combine harvester, into an ever-smaller patch of wheat.

    These ignorant atheist scientists keep missing the point 2009

  • Hypothetically, if everyone were to eat vegetarian, we'd need to grow much fewer crops - so, much less habitat would be destroyed, fewer pesticides would be used, fewer fieldmice chopped, etc etc.

    Reading Michael Pollan is bad for you. Or good. Presents 2009

  • So, wile you think of a nice parting quip to end this post, I'll think about genre and sub-genre and why vampires are more often depicted as love interest than, say, fieldmice. var doubleclick_ad_params = 'wg=2;wa=48;wc=AU;wi=18th;wi=century;wi=literature;wi=andromeda;wi=spaceways;wi=inflight;wi=magazine;wi=angel;wi=arthurian;wi=legends;jid=7007632;!

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  • It gorged on New Guinea and searched out the minor islands of the East Indies as a cat searches for baby fieldmice in a nest her paw has discovered.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • Then back, to surprise the otter grubbing for fresh-water mussels, the rabbits on the edge of the beechwoods foraging in the clover, and the policeman-like white owl stooping to the little fieldmice, till the moon was strong, and he took his rod apart, and went home through well-remembered gaps in the hedges.

    The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • In the fore-court, lit by the dim rays of a horn lantern, some eight or ten little fieldmice stood in a semicircle, red worsted comforters round their throats, their fore-paws thrust deep into their pockets, their feet jigging for warmth.

    The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • Of more interest than my metal pellets are my cat and owl pellets, which are of course organic, and often contain the barely recognisable remains of small mammals such as mice and fieldmice, or of the tinier birds, Some of these pellets have been dropped in my doorway, as gifts, and some I have collected, on trawling expeditions in the forest.

    Hooting Yard 2009

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