At this time the dormouse was the largest animal in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends] Reference

But by this time the dormouse was a very small animal, and has remained so ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference

The dormouse is a remarkable sleeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference

"Aunt Dorothy always called me a dormouse at night --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queensland Cousins] Reference

All we needed was a dormouse, falling into the teapot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Jong: I Don't Cook] Reference

Anyhow, my revolver saved me, and was worth a dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

MARY BRAZIER asks what is the best food for a dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

"Only a small one -- seeds, I think," said the dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

But where, where, dear dormouse, are the hatter and hare?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference

For the dormouse, one tiny penetrating note dominated all.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

'But this is a dormouse, not a house-mouse,' said Lucy-Ann.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus of Adventure]

The dormouse had felt it coming, and had discreetly retired.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Philip's little dormouse came out to share the meal with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus of Adventure]

Once upon a time a dormouse lived in the wood with his mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference

The first sorrow I can remember was for the death of a dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage Out] Reference

But he'd have to be careful not to let it see Snoozy the dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus of Adventure]

The dormouse looked up, and gave a dolorous squeal of disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Poor old fellow, did you finally sleep like a dormouse in your cabin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference

Razumihin informed him that Raskolnikov was sleeping like a dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime and Punishment] Reference

They all looked around for the dormouse, but there was no sign of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference

"Let the dormouse go," said the beaver, "as he is the largest of us all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference

So is the dormouse tail; but the hairs along it do more than merely part.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Kiki was on Jack's shoulder, as quiet as the dormouse in Philip's pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus of Adventure]

The dormouse leapt from Jack's hand in fright and scuttled under the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus of Adventure]

Treacy in person is like a genetic hybrid of the Mad Hatter and the dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 4 Recap: That Darn Hat] Reference

It was the orange-tip, and the dormouse rejoiced, for the orange-tip meant spring.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

"The second hazel on the left," said the dormouse; "the third hollow from the top.".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

It seems a more intense form of hibernation than that of our squirrel and dormouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference

Only one near-endemic mammal species is found here, the dormouse (Graphiurus olga).    From Wordnik.com.  [West Saharan montane xeric woodlands] Reference

The dormouse came from halfway up the hazel, and the wood-mouse came from its roots.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

And he does have a voice rather as I imagine the dormouse in the Mad Hatter's tea party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vince Cable's wake-up call for sleeping partners] Reference

As if the dormouse and the March Hare weren't enough to put a person off such gatherings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlfriends' Guide: Sarah Palin Is So Bitter!] Reference

A few small animals, the squirrel, field mouse, and dormouse, are store-keepers by nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

The dormouse cowered back until she passed -- white -- gleaming, swift and silent as a moth.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Philip's dormouse had decided that the pocket he lived in was getting too hot for his liking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus of Adventure]

“Sisters and a dormouse and some canaries,” Rachel murmured, never taking her eyes off him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage Out] Reference

"She's not such a bad sort, after all," thought the dormouse, as he proceeded to examine the nut.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference