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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
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A black girl from Chicago, there on scholarship, poor as a churchmouse.
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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