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  • Outhwaite is helped enormously by Mark Umbers as the three men in her life -- nasty Charlie, suave Vittorio Vidal and timid as a churchmouse Oscar Lindquist.

    David Finkle: First-Nighter: London's Sweet Charity Sufficiently Sweet 2010

  • A black girl from Chicago, there on scholarship, poor as a churchmouse.

    Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

  • I got the homecoming queen too but she's about as mean as a churchmouse and was valedictorian of her nursing class ... if Sarah is half that smart she's got ninety percent of the politico's I've met beat.

    Our Pal Joey? 2008

  • If 70% of the American people were behind Bush Rahm would be as quiet as a churchmouse.

    Exclusive: Full Memo From Rahm Emanuel Urging Dems To Hang Tough On Iraq Obtained 2009

  • I am poor as the proverbial churchmouse and I have started, I kid you not, a Bouchercon fund, in which I have asked my children to deposit their spare change.

    Hitchhiker's Guide to Mystery Fests 2006

  • Accepting this respect allows us to enjoy perhaps the comments of the churchmouse Obama.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Obama and the Flag Pin: 2007

  • What I saw was a sad-looking Oriental woman in her forties, her hair chopped China-doll short, sallow, frail, homely in baggy work clothes and shabby as a churchmouse.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • What I saw was a sad-looking Oriental woman in her forties, her hair chopped China-doll short, sallow, frail, homely in baggy work clothes and shabby as a churchmouse.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • What I saw was a sad-looking Oriental woman in her forties, her hair chopped China-doll short, sallow, frail, homely in baggy work clothes and shabby as a churchmouse.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • Editor's note: Amos is a churchmouse who types by hurling himself at the keys, but he can't use the capital shift keys and he shuns punctuation marks - except the hyphens and dashes.

    Clovis News Journal : News By Gary Mitchell: Religion columnist 2010

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