I shrugged and nodded and trudged away into the drizzle, feeling as weak as a fieldmouse dropped by a hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Frame]

And besides, since winter is coming, the dying clammy ground cherry makes a good Pilgrim hat for the fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIAPERS FOR HORSES: AN AUBADE TO A LOST COCKATIEL] Reference

  And besides, since winter is coming, the dying clammy ground cherry makes a good Pilgrim hat for the fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIAPERS FOR HORSES: AN AUBADE TO A LOST COCKATIEL] Reference

Hawks hovered high above the hollows, dipping occasionally out of the sky when they saw a groundhog or fieldmouse below.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference

Wrap in greasepoof paper with two garlic cloves, a sprig of rosemary, two slices of onion and shredded fieldmouse to taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

In "Tinsel", Robertson urges us to "Tune to the frequency of the wood and you'll hear / the deer, breathing; a muscle, tensing; the sigh / of a fieldmouse under an owl".    From Wordnik.com.  [Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010] Reference

Gifts weren't the usual tins of beans, soup, runner beans and one ornate bread mould of a wheatsheaf with a fieldmouse at the bottom - so not entirely like being back at primary school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference

On the plus side, if this happened it'd mean we wouldn't have to hear Kate Moss mimble "Get the London look" like some sort of pikey fieldmouse every 15 minutes in her useless Rimmel adverts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Moss Probably Dumps Pete Doherty For The Jillionth Time] Reference

The look the fieldmouse she'd caught one year had had - the year she'd decided she \vanted to be like Gerald Durrell and thought she'd better start early learning how to collect wild animals as he had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle]

Tell him that a boy called Churchwood had caught a fieldmouse and kept it as a pet, and a year, or ten years later, he would ask you, "Did you ever hear what became of poor Chickweed who was so afraid of the rats?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

And as the Home Guard and police are busy dealing with Farmer Peter Hawkes from over near Sutton Scotney, so Golly squeezes through a gap in the hedge almost fifty yards from the roadblock, and is across the road silent as an owl striking a fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bottled Spider]

Each fieldmouse keeps the homestead whence it sprung.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 444. Ode to a Butterfly by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Both mice and rats are common, the former precisely resembling in appearance the English fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference

You are as demure as a fieldmouse, but I know those big eyes of yours have taken our measures by this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Princess in Calico] Reference

One species of opossum, a flying squirrel (Petaurista) two kinds of dog, of which one is new, rats, and a fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference

So what next? lama, suffed with lamb, stuffed with piglet, stuffed with goose, stuffed with rabbit, stuffed with rat, stuffed with fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

It was not much larger than a common fieldmouse, but the tail was longer in proportion to the rest of the body even than that of a kangaroo, and terminated in a hairy brush about two inches long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference

He managed to put in the whole forenoon planning and making estimates, and he was so cheerful afterwards that he whistled and sang, and later he tied a piece of jerky on the end of a string and teased a fat fieldmouse, whose hunger made him venturesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

You really can't go too far wrong with a roast - with salmon, turkey and beef as the options - it was the height of summer but everyone seemed cool with it ... or if they weren't they were nice enough to not whinge publicly that they would have expected Foie gras and saddle and rack of fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The ceaseless throb and thrum of the natural world – which is to say, the unhuman world – pulses throughout The Wrecking Light…It can be heard in birds "calling out their names to themselves"; in the forest deer "breathing; a muscle, tensing; the sigh / of a fieldmouse under an owl"; and, most especially, in "the bitter sea’s complaining pull / and roll".    From Wordnik.com.  [Measuring fresh, luminous, visionary power] Reference

A lemur trying to grab a fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Michaux JR, Libois R, Filippucci M-G (2005) So close and so different: comparative phylogeopgraphy of two small mammal species, the Yellow-necked fieldmouse (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The ant, the fieldmouse, and the mole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Devil] Reference

‘Ah, yes, poor useless creature,’ answered the fieldmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olive Fairy Book] Reference

Middle; a word as cunningly hidden in its maze of confused drapery as a fieldmouse in a nest of coloured ribbons: that ab-surdly bullsfooted bee declaring with an even plainer dummp — show than does the mute commoner with us how hard a thing it is to mpe mporn a gentlerman: and look at this prepronominal funferal, engraved and retouched and edgewiped and pudden-padded, very like a whale’s egg farced with pemmican, as were it sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times for ever and a night till his noddle sink or swim by that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia: all those red raddled obeli cayennepep-percast over the text, calling unnecessary attention to errors, omissions, repetitions and misalignments: that (probably local or personal) variant maggers for the more generally accepted ma-jesty which is but a trifle and yet may quietly amuse: those super — ciliouslooking crisscrossed Greek ees awkwardlike perched there and here out of date like sick owls hawked back to A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference