Far from imagining that cats exist in order to catch mice well, Darwinism supposes that cats exist because they catch mice well--mousing being not the end, but the condition, of their existence.
What is the use of always mousing about for coprolites?
One man, in the pasture getting his cows, called a fox which was too busy mousing to get the first sight, till it jumped upon the wall just over where he sat secreted.
But if the fox ismousing in the fields, and you discover him before he does you, you may, the wind favoring, call him within a few paces of you.
On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
This mousing owl will search the crannies even of a woman's wits ere he sate his appetite for discovery.
And slowly, with his mousing walk, he led the way back to the first site.
And, mousing back through the fruit garden, he regained the verandah.
That slight superciliousness of his, combined with an air of mousing amongst precedents, was in his favour too--a man would not be supercilious unless he knew!
As they splashed through the shallows the frogs fell silent, scared by the invasion, but an owl that was mousing on the slope of the downs between them and the dim lifted horizon continued its melancholy hooting.
Until this night, when the wild things of the wood saw with wonder the glow in the tree-tops and cowered in their lairs, and the owl mousing in the uplands beyond the river shrank from the light in the meadows, and flew to shelter.
Mousing hook, a hook with an attachment which prevents its unhooking.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Sister hooks, a pair of hooks fitted together, the shank of one forming a mousing for the other; -- called also match hook.
It was not until the gray dawn began to peer above the mountains that he returned from his mousing expedition, and related to the prince what he had seen.
Guided by his legendary mentor, the prince found the cavern, which was in one of the wildest recesses of those rocky cliffs which rise around Toledo; none but the mousing eye of an owl or an antiquary could have discovered the entrance to it.
Their inquisitiveness is not always agreeable or welcome, but we ought to be glad that there are mousing fact-hunters to worry us with queries to which, for the sake of the public, we are bound to give our attention.
Far from imagining that cats exist in order to catch mice well, Darwinism supposes that cats exist because they catch mice well--mousing being not the end, but the condition, of their existence.
It was not until the grey dawn began to peer above the mountains that he returned from his mousing expedition, and related to the prince what he had seen.
I'll slay him if I find him mousing around my Jane.
A 'mousing owl' would have seen better at midnoon than to have done it.
Let his be the eagle's flight towards the sun, and theirs to skim in darkness along the ground, like the course of the mousing owl.
So howandever, as I was saying, the old dog seeing the tin was empty starts mousing around by Joe and me.
Then every fellow mousing around for his liver and his lights and the rest of his traps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mousing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
