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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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"What number do you want?" asked the telephone girl who was a little wood-mouse.
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