In their arboreal life, and the habit of sitting up on their hind-legs with their food grasped in the fore-paws, dormice are like squirrels, from which they differ in being completely nocturnal.
Sometimes numbers of the summer's nests are found in thick bushes, or among the low herbage at the bottom of a hedge, perhaps with the dormice fast asleep in them.
You remember how dormice make summer and winter nests.
Dormice always make two nests during the year, one being used during the summer, and the other during the winter.
In all the members of the order, with the exception of the Dormice and some allied forms, the caecum is large and often sacculated.
Did you notice, Lady Mary, how thedormice held their food?
The dormicehad learned the value of money with a vengeance.
The dormice lay snug in their nest, and though their money ebbed, and the cupboard was next to bare, and the household work at times weighed hardly on unaccustomed, slender shoulders, perhaps they were too near Heaven to complain.
Phyllis said thedormice were floating on a shingle, and with tearful laughter would expatiate on the pitiful, half-drowned things, so scared and hungry on a bobbing sea.
I guess the dormice are still on their shingle," said Adair, "though a lot of skin and fur has been rubbed off one of them.
The physiology of hibernation, as exemplified in mammalia, has been worked out in detail by several observers in the case of some European species, notably bats, hedgehogs, dormice and marmots.
If a warm spell in the winter rouses dormice from their slumbers, they feed upon nuts or other food accumulated during the autumn, but do not as a rule leave the nests constructed for shelter during the winter.
Dormice awake once in every twenty-four hours; the sleep of the hedgehogs may last for two or three days.
I think Dormice are very handsome and just too sweet and amiable to live.
Dormice can sit on the flimsiest clouds we have and not break through.
Nor should you imagine the Paraguayrian dormiceare fond of nothing but beef; they delight in human flesh, for they frequently bite you when you are sound asleep, and that with no sluggish tooth.
On handling the flesh, they found it completely hollowed, and three hundred dormice lurking within.
An innumerable host ofdormice not unfrequently came thronging from the southern parts of Buenos-Ayres, filled the fields, garners, and houses of Tucuman, and laid waste every thing.
Almost every night the dormice snatched up the iron plate with the burning wick, in order to suck the oil when it cooled.
There were tame dormice too, that peeped out from among the withered leaves or climbed about on the may-trees close beside our garden hammocks.
Dormice rarely come out, except at night, passing the day in a solitary manner in their cells, which they manage to make very comfortable by linings of moss.
Dormice are about the size of the common mice, only more bulky, and of a reddish brown colour.
Since then," adds the good bishop, "dormice and serpents without number have been seen in Paris.
Gregory of Tours tells us that the city of Paris used to be free of dormice and serpents, but that in his lifetime, while they were cleaning a sewer, they found a bronze serpent and a bronze dormouse and removed them.
The Dormice fearing it might be some of the Weasels who spoke, were silent instantly, and then the Moles bade them come out.
And the Moles dug a deep hole, and buried both the Dormicein the same grave.
Out in the fields, in the hollow of an old willow-tree, two Dormice slept the whole winter long.
So the Dormice came down to the Moles; and when the Moles found that the silly creatures were bent on their quarrel, they insisted that the combat should be with swords.
To all this theDormice consented; the Moles found an old trap, and from the iron parts they fashioned rude swords.
I have just discovered how a gardener may get rid of the dormice that eat his peaches.
How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches Not on the same night, as he had intended, but the next morning, the Count of Monte Cristo went out by the Barrier d'Enfer, taking the road to Orleans.
I have just discovered the method of ridding a gardener of the dormice that eat his peaches.
He brought home a poor old crab without a claw, and the green bird and the dormice found a hook and screwed it in, and the poor old crab used to carry parcels for the neighbours; but he still lived with the Tinkle-Tinkle.
He stopped, for he was a kindly Tinkle-Tinkle, and found two small dormice sobbing under a tree because they had been cruelly deserted by their parents.
Dormice are still eaten in some parts of Europe, and the Romans used to keep them as part of their live stock.
At a moderate temperature, say 45 or 50 degrees, dormice and hedgehogs will wake up, eat something, and then go to sleep again.
He mentions the nuts as part of the diet of dormice (III, 15).
The potters make these jars in different shapes, but with paths for the dormice to use contrived on the sides and a hollow to hold their food, which consists of mast, walnuts and chestnuts.
Covers are placed on the jars and there in the dark the dormice are fattened.
Little water is necessary, fordormice do not require much water, but on the contrary affect dry places.
Of these two species we only know the latter, as the dormice of France have no smell either good or bad.
Many countrymen have assured me that they have found the nests of dormice in coppices and in hedges, that they were surrounded with leaves and moss, and that each nest contained three or four young ones.
I had two of these dormice alive for some time, but, as they bit and gnawed at everything intended to keep them in durance, I was obliged to kill both.
These dormiceeat through the covering of the pot as suspended, and enjoy themselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dormice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
