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Examples
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Pierre Corthay describes his shoes, handmade in a mouse-hole workshop near Paris 'Place Vendôme, as a stylistic blend -- "in between very British and very Italian."
Sole Man Gary Walther 2010
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Love the cockroach coffin with antennae sticking out of it look closely – almost as much as the mouse-hole tombstone!
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Love the cockroach coffin with antennae sticking out of it look closely – almost as much as the mouse-hole tombstone!
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Another thinks himself so little, that he can creep into a mouse-hole: one fears heaven will fall on his head: a second is a cock; and such a one, [2585] Guianerius saith he saw at Padua, that would clap his hands together and crow.
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Crumb-snatcher am I called, and I am the son of Bread-nibbler — he was my stout-hearted father — and my mother was Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds.
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Nothing more to say. instead of hiding in a mouse-hole they still rise there ugly heads. reply
App Store Hypocrisy Update: Mein Kampf Complete With Nazi Logo Approved MG Siegler 2005
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The two friends played with an imperial chariot which Miles had made out of a starch-box and four red spools; together they stuck switches into a mouse-hole, with vast satisfaction though entirely without known results.
Main Street 2004
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However, it is probable you may one of these days see me turned into a perfect hunks, and as dark and intricate as a mouse-hole.
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Of course the only thing left for it is to dismiss all that with a wave of its paw, and, with a smile of assumed contempt in which it does not even itself believe, creep ignominiously into its mouse-hole.
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Mr. Polly heard Annie say something vague about never getting a chance because of Miriam always sticking about at home like a cat at a mouse-hole, that became, as people say, food for thought.
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