10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHREWMICE»
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shrewmice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
shrewmice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Caxtons: A Family Picture
The ladies of Bubastis, my dear, a place in Egypt where the cat was worshipped,
always kept rigidly aloof from the gentlemen in Atbribis, who adored the
shrewmice. Cats are domestic animals, — your shrewmice are sad gadabouts :
you can't ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1849
2
Afar in the Forest; Or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the ...
Sometimes they met with some little shrewmice running on the snow. These very
tiny things are so small, they hardly look bigger than a large black beetle. They
lived on the seeds of the tall weeds, which they might be seen climbing and ...
Catherine Parr Strickland Traill, 1869
3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... five of these mole-shrewmice would have found a lodgment in the abdomen,
while as many more were lugging at the sides. You could not walk a etc without
killing the creatures. For ve years not one of them has been seen. Some years
ago ...
The ladies of Bubastis, my dear,a place in Egypt where thecat was worshipped,
always kept rigidlyaloof from the gentlemen in Athribis, who adored the
shrewmice. Cats are domestic animals, your shrewmice are sad gadabouts: you
can'tfinda ...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2013
5
The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's ...
The ladies of Bubastis, my dear, a place in Egypt where the cat was worshipped,
always kept rigidly aloof from the gentlemen in Athribis, who adored the
shrewmice. Cats are domestic animals, — your shrewmice are sad gadabouts :
you can't ...
Needless to relate, the shrewmice “polished off” the mice, and the weasels got
both of them.2 The Romans knew the mouse well. It was recognized as. 2 In
connection with this story about Heliogabalus, it is particularly strange that rats
were ...
7
Stories of the Canadian Forest, Or, Little Mary and Her Nurse
Sometimes they met with some little shrewmice, running on the snow. These very
tiny things are so small, they hardly look bigger than a large black beetle; they
lived on the seeds of the tall weeds, which they might be seen climbing and ...
Catherine Parr Strickland Traill, 1861
Balzac, Honore de. other bad characters of the same kidney, had lightly dipped
his muzzle, pointed as a larding pin, in oil of musk, which all shrewmice have
since inherited, because this one, is spiteof the sageadviceof Gargantua, ...
9
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
With shrewmice (Sorex) both sexes possess abdominal scent glands, and there
can be little doubt, from the rejection of their bodies by birds andbeasts ofprey,
thatthe odour is protective; nevertheless, the glands become enlarged in the
males ...
10
Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals
... Florida-Wasserratte f Rat d'eau de Floride 4388 Neohydromys Rodentia -
Muridae e Short-tailed Shrewmice; Mottletailed Shrewmice d
Fleckschwanzschwimmratten 4389 Neohydromysfuscus Rodentia - Muridae e
Short-tailed Shrewmouse ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHREWMICE»
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shrewmice is used in the context of the following news items.
Bullfrog Breaks Korea's Ecological System…NIER
... including toad tadpoles but also birds such as great tits, and mammals including black-striped field mice and shrewmice which are at the top of the food chain. «The Korea Bizwire, Oct 14»
Further Adventures of Scr-words, or, the Taming of 'Shrew'
It would be tempting to explain shrew as “diminutive animal” because some shrewmice are the smallest mammals in nature, but scrimp-, the putative etymon of ... «OUPblog, May 12»
