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Definition of Shrewmice
1. shrewmouse [n] - See also: shrewmouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrewmice
Literary usage of Shrewmice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"From these facts Gargantua, in order that the high authority of his lieutenant
might be universally known by all the shrewmice, cats, weasels, martins, ..."
2. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"From these facts Gargantua, in order that the high authority of his lieutenant
might be universally known by all the shrewmice, cats, weasels, martins, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"... my dear, a place in Egypt where the cat was worshipped, always kept rigidly
aloof from the gentlemen in Athribis, who adored the shrewmice. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... a period of the earth's history, and the mode in which the places which nowadays
in the Dorsetshire fields are filled by moles, hedgehogs, and shrewmice ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... not three days old, little bigger than shrewmice, all covered with blackish
down interspersed with long white hair, running after their mother. ..."
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