The prediction comes as campaigners paint a bleak future for native species such as dormice and bluebells. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Not dormice, of course, at least no legitimate dormice. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
A duel between two dormice, with moles as gravediggers. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
I think I speak for everyone when I say, "Edible dormice???". From Wordnik.com. [Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’?] Reference
Is an arena scene compulsory, like larks' tongues and dormice?. From Wordnik.com. [Gladiatrix, by Russell Whitfield. Book review.] Reference
Mice, voles, and dormice on the other hand, were just for fun. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Reminder That One’s Adorable Furbuddy is in Fact a Merciless Predator « Whatever] Reference
BTW, dormice and larks' tongues are genuine, not a medieval invention. From Wordnik.com. [Gladiatrix, by Russell Whitfield. Book review.] Reference
Next to them sat a small stack of animals, mostly squirrels and dormice. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
Ancient Romans kept fat dormice in captivity, serving them as a delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
Zelinda and her father were so weary that they slept like dormice all night. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
These mice can be very easily tamed, and live happily in cages, like dormice. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
"Don 'mind if it wriggles a bit, I think I still got a couple o' dormice in one o 'the pockets.". From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]
Slaves served the guests with kidneys, dormice, nightingales, mince-meat dressed with vine-leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Herodias] Reference
"Simon's not in," she confided, 'and Dad's watching a documentary about dormice, don't ask me why. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
"The fat dormice are fattened up in barrel-like pots like those in country houses," wrote Varro (116-27 BC). From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
Atoms are non-sets (dormice, teapots, anything you please) with no internal structure visible to the set theory. From Wordnik.com. [Quine's New Foundations] Reference
Social dormice may want to rely on a colleague, but clinging on to allies won't win any accolades from the bosses. From Wordnik.com. [Jo Bryant: Office Christmas Parties: An Etiquette Minefield] Reference
Just dying to wrap up in a sheet toga-style and enjoy some honey-dipped dormice in the manner of the ancient Romans?. From Wordnik.com. [2007 September 20 archive at eternallycool.net] Reference
She ordered ale for both of them, and - no dormice appearing on the bill of fare - strips of smoked and salted beef to go with it. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
The guests started the meal with wine, olives, dormice sprinkled with poppy-seed and honey, hot sausages, plums, and pomegrantate seeds. From Wordnik.com. [2007 September 20 archive at eternallycool.net] Reference
Hazel dormice need your help across southern Britain. From Wordnik.com. [BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content] Reference
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: A walkway for dormice is a bridge too far. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"Did you notice, Lady Mary, how the dormice held their food?". From Wordnik.com. [In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada] Reference
Why dormice are set to stop a £12m Morrisons supermarket project. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The Romans gave us a couple suggestions for how to serve dormice. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
I shall bring my two dormice, and make them perform gymnastics on the dinnertable. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Petronius describes a feast at which roast dormice were served rolled in honey and poppyseed. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
They liked this, and played hard till bedtime, when most of them turned in and slept like dormice. From Wordnik.com. [Little Men] Reference
Unique to this region is a group of dormice, driven by the Devil, and a huge fire-breathing dragon. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
One way to rid our shores of pesky dormice, grey squirrels and their ilk is to eat them, says Clive Aslet. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
This was a luxury food, and if you are lucky enough to live near the Chilterns, dormice are on your doorstep. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"Vile dwellers in the earth, moles, badgers, dormice, ferrets, and water-rats, open the door and I'll cut off all your ears.". From Wordnik.com. [Honey-Bee 1911] Reference
A council has splashed out £7,000 on an 18ft-high rope bridge and tunnel so that dormice and lizards can cross a road safely. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Monkeys, butterflies, turtles… how the pet trade's greed is emptying south-east Asia's forests] Reference
In a similar way, dormice, squirrels, and bears grow very fat before they retire to some snug hole to sleep out the long winter. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
Although their name conjures images of dormice playing harps, Field Music are actually an indie rock band and a fine one at that. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Her intellect, never of a high order, had become still more obtuse in the torpor of such a life as dormice lead, in the neglect of. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
UPM Tilhill has created a new 'des res' for dormice alongside a 400 metre stretch of Kent's rail network near Wadhurst, East Sussex. From Wordnik.com. [Packaging and Converting Essentials] Reference
They slept in the cold weather like dormice; in the daytime they lay very still, but would come out, and gambol and frisk about at night. From Wordnik.com. [In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada] Reference
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