Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mouse that habitually lives in the woods.
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Examples
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Nor could he cover the ground with the easy swinging jump that makes one suspect relationship between the red vole and the wood-mouse.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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The long-tailed wood-mouse -- a handsome fellow this, with great black liquid eyes, and weasel colouring; the harvest-mouse, that Liliputian rustic to whose deft fingers all good mouse-nests are indiscriminately assigned; the freaks, white, black, and nondescript; and, finally, the great brown rats.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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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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It sheltered the birds, and it took the wind's kisses gladly, and it caught the snows in the wrinkles and twists of its boughs; and the squirrel nested in it, and the wood-mouse nibbled at it; and its life sufficed it, answering its desires.
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The dormouse came from halfway up the hazel, and the wood-mouse came from its roots.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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The rabbits vanished at his approach, while a tiny wood-mouse which had stolen up, fled with a squeak of panic.
Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer
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He had lived in that two months, next door to the wood-mouse, and from him he may have learnt something of the art of nest-building.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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Many of its old trees have been cut down, yet some remain to make a pleasant shade, and some curious wild animals are found in its woodlands, which are very plentiful; there is the dull-coloured wood-mouse, which often escapes notice amongst the herbage; the lively, more conspicuous white-footed species; and especially the jumping mouse, the briskest and most amusing of all.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Well, anyway, as soon as the little rabbit had paid the little wood-mouse five carrot cents, he hopped home to tell his mother that Uncle John Hare was coming over to supper.
Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers David Magie Cory 1919
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"What number do you want?" asked the telephone girl who was a little wood-mouse.
Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers David Magie Cory 1919
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