Dormouse

She is a good-looking young woman dressed in a bizarre red and blue effect, not unlike one of the Queens, but she prefers to be known as the "Dormouse" -- not, however, that she shows the slightest tendency to fall asleep.

Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin 1900

Besides, he had a strange form of dissipation, I have heard some one say; he was devoted to children, and would become interested in some child—his Dormouse is a portrait of a child—and spend his money on its education.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Besides, he had a strange form of dissipation, I have heard some one say; he was devoted to children, and would become interested in some child—his Dormouse is a portrait of a child—and spend his money on its education.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Besides, he had a strange form of dissipation, I have heard some one say; he was devoted to children, and would become interested in some child—his Dormouse is a portrait of a child—and spend his money on its education.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Besides, he had a strange form of dissipation, I have heard some one say; he was devoted to children, and would become interested in some child—his Dormouse is a portrait of a child—and spend his money on its education.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Besides, he had a strange form of dissipation, I have heard some one say; he was devoted to children, and would become interested in some child—his Dormouse is a portrait of a child—and spend his money on its education.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Besides, he had a strange form of dissipation, I have heard some one say; he was devoted to children, and would become interested in some child—his Dormouse is a portrait of a child—and spend his money on its education.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The Dormouse is the same as in England; and so is the Weasel, which is very scarce.

A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c. 1709

Dumoise was our Civil Surgeon at Meridki, and we called him "Dormouse," because he was a round little, sleepy little man.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Dumoise was our Civil Surgeon at Meridki, and we called him "Dormouse," because he was a round little, sleepy little man.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900