Sentence examples for fieldmouse from inspiring English sources

Angelica, "a frightened fieldmouse" (but not for long) moves through the world of international scams like a hormonal fireball, indulging every sexual whim the author's impoverished imagination can supply.

Somewhat clearer, although not new, is the description of his success in making further fortunes by toying with the existence of the British Grand Prix, an event he treats with the refined cruelty of a particularly vicious cat holding a fieldmouse between its paws.

It can be heard in birds "calling out their names to themselves"; in the forest deer "breathing; a muscle, tensing; the sigh / of a fieldmouse under an owl"; and, most especially, in "the bitter sea's complaining pull / and roll".

More than two centuries ago, a hapless fieldmouse had its nest accidentally overturned by Robert Burns, inspiring both the poet's sympathy and one of his best-loved poems, To a Mouse.

Thumbelina herself speaks only a single sentence: "She has been so kind to me," she remarks of bossy Mrs. Fieldmouse.

She created a world of adventure for them with long stories she'd make up about Finley the Fieldmouse, with wild boar hunts into the woods and with an ability to throw herself into any role play that that day's game dictated, from being a mole to a marauding monster.

Despite the various privations that came with living in a drafty, fieldmouse-infested, hundred-and-fifty-year-old house with a terminally self-absorbed man, Rose grew to love the farm as she had never before loved a place.

Why, propane gas receipts nibbled by fieldmice, of course.