creep-mouse

He 's up in mamma's room, and was just saying, 'How 's Polly?' when I heard you come, in your creep-mouse way, and you must go right up.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Soon after, the Tempest drove in four Thieves, who, not seeing such a little creep-mouse Girl as

Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766 Anonymous

We deal in creep-mouse sentiment, and call it love.

The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Mary Cholmondeley 1892

He 's up in mamma's room, and was just saying, 'How 's Polly?' when I heard you come, in your creep-mouse way, and you must go right up.

An Old-Fashioned Girl Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1870

He 's up in mamma's room, and was just saying, 'How 's Polly?' when I heard you come, in your creep-mouse way, and you must go right up.

An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott 1860

Here are creep-mouse manners; and thievish manners.

The Conduct of Life (1860) 1856

'she is rather creep-mouse, but has no _other_ fault that I know of.

Abbeychurch Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It need not frighten you: it is a nothing of a part, a mere nothing, not above half a dozen speeches altogether, and it will not much signify if nobody hears a word you say; so you may be as creep-mouse as you like, but we must have you to look at. "

Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1796