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Examples
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I had buried a rat, three field-mice and a squirrel, intending to hide them from the eyes of Helena and the children.
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As they ate, they talked of old times, and the field-mice gave him the local gossip up to date, and answered as well as they could the hundred questions he had to ask them.
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The rest of the field-mice, perched in a row on the settle, their small legs swinging, gave themselves up to enjoyment of the fire, and toasted their chilblains till they tingled.
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I think it must be the field-mice, replied the Mole, with a touch of pride in his manner.
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It was a pretty sight - some eight or ten little field-mice stood in a semicircle, red worsted comforters round their throats, their fore-paws thrust deep into their pockets, their feet jigging for warmth.
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Such small animals as squirrels and field-mice might have been carried away on the trees which formed part of such a raft, and might thus colonise a new island; though, as it would require a pair of the same species to be thus conveyed at the same time, such accidents would no doubt be rare.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Such small animals as squirrels and field-mice might have been carried away on the trees which formed part of such a raft, and might thus colonise a new island; though, as it would require a pair of the same species to be thus conveyed at the same time, such accidents would no doubt be rare.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Strabo, however, says, that when the Teucri were migrating from Crete, they were told by an oracle to settle in that place, where they should not be attacked by the original inhabitants of the land, and that, having halted for the night, a number of field-mice came and gnawed away the leathern straps of their baggage, and thongs of their armour.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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From before our equipage fled squirrels, field-mice, parroquets of brilliant colors and deafening loquacity.
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Besides the mischief and damage of the field-mice, the decay of barns, and the destruction usually made by weasels and other vermin.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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