The mice and the moles followed them, and the rabbit was not far behind.
Wasn't it ungrateful in the mice to disobey Minnie, when she had taken so much trouble for their sakes?
The young mice seemed obedient to Minnie until they had reached the entrance of the nest; but, at the first taste of fresh air, they began to frisk about, and do whatever they chose.
But, hearing the slow steps of turtle brush through the grass above, she thanked the mice for their good-will, and hurried out into the sunshine, to meet her new and faithful friend.
Even the mice talked about it in their cellars under ground; and oriole did not sleep a wink, he worked so hard composing a song to Minnie's eyelashes.
Both were very profuse in their thanks to Minnie; for the young mice had already told of her kindness and care.
As Minnie was mounted on his back, the mice were obliged to travel also, in order that she might hear their complaints and reproaches.
Once upon a time, the Mice saw a broiled rasher of bacon hanging up in a very little room, the door of which being open, enticed them to fall on with greedy appetites.
The Mice called a general council, and, having met, after the doors were locked, entered into a free consultation about ways and means how to render their fortunes and estates more secure from the danger of the Cat.
The rats and the mice they made such a strife, I was forced to go to London to buy me a wife: The roads were so bad, and the lanes were so narrow, I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheelbarrow.
But the rats and the mice They made such a strife, I was forced to go to London To get myself a wife: The roads were so bad, And the lanes were so narrow, I was forced to bring my wife home In a wheelbarrow.
Two little dogs were basking in the cinders; Two little cats were playing in the windows; When two little mice popped out of a hole, And up to a fine piece of cheese they stole.
Although, like Cinderella's breed, They're miceat bottom.
As for the cat that made his fortune by catching all the mice in Barbary, we fear we must throw him overboard, even though Stow tells a true story of a man and a cat that greatly resembles that told of Whittington.
Vermin, however, do not quite agree among themselves: weasels and stoats are deadly enemies of mice and rats.
Of smallest mice that could be found, For to draw his coach appears Such stately steeds his wish to crown Long tails with cropped ears.
An old Woman whipping her Cat for Catching Mice on a Sunday.
ADOLF, bishop of Cologne, was devoured by mice or rats in 1112.
The measure was agreed to in full council, but one of the sager mice inquired, "Who would undertake to bell the cat?
God Almighty mustered up an army of mice against the archbishop [Hatto], and sent them to persecute him as his furious Alastors.
Town Mice in the Country: A Story of Holiday Adventure.
Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty-Nail, Mount Eagle and Mount High; The mice that in these mountains dwell, No happier are than I!
He was followed by the priest Sethos, against whom Sennacherib, the king of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched, but the god of Memphis saved him by sending field mice into the camp (p.
Just now the dog, the mules and chickens and a family of mice and I are all living peacefully together in the one room but we're awful healthy if a good appetite is any kind of a sign.
At last the littleMice stayed away also; and the Tree sighed: "After all, it was very pleasant when the sleek little Mice sat round me, and listened to what I told them.
So then the Fir Tree told the whole fairy tale, for he could remember every single word of it; and the little Mice jumped for joy up to the very top of the Tree.
And then he told all about his youth; and the little Mice had never heard the like before; and they listened and said, "Well, to be sure!
The wrestler wondered very much at this, and asked, "Are your mice so very big?
Then at once all the mice came and ate it up every bit.
Mr. Campbell of Islay, who read this story in manuscript, wrote in the margin where the mice were mentioned: "The fleas in the island of Java are so big that they come out from under the bed and steal potatoes.
A few yards away the mice have a hole down into the snow, which perhaps leads to some snug den under the ground.
He knows what is in there, and the mice know that he knows; hence their apparent consternation.
Sometimes, probably when he smelt the mice underneath, he would cautiously turn the log over with one paw, holding the other lifted and ready to strike.
But the mice having set their nests in order only look on at all this, so as not to take their part in his history before it is time.
But now the mice gnawing at the string open the package, and the little bottle of ink comes rolling across the floor directly before his eyes.
And hereupon by the arrangement of Destiny the mice having all in order take their cue and come out boldly into his history.
The sounds in here, instead of running mice and the pawing of the old horse and your own curses on poverty, will be the footsteps of hurrying people, their laughs and cries of welcome and godspeed.
And as the lights were turned low, the mice came through the broken plaster and raced across the floor.
The white mice are out this morning, Mrs. Lyndsay," said Bob Motion, who was at his old post at the helm.
Rats and mice destroyed by owls Reasons against sale of game Recreation Magazine Refuges, National bird Red deer, introduced in New Zealand; of Europe Reed, Elizabeth A.
Mice and rats destroyed by owls, Michigan; deer killed in, good laws of Migratory birds, federal protection demanded for Miles, George W.
By the end of two years from the passage of "the hawk law," the farmers found their fields and orchards thoroughly overrun by destructive rats, mice and insects, and they appealed to the legislature for the quick repeal of the law.
To her, rats and mice were mere child's-play, and after a time their pursuit offered such tame sport that she sought fresh fields for her prowess.
As to the butcher bird, we feel that we ought to kill him, but in view of his record on wild mice and rats, we hesitate, and finally decline.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
