Lexicographical Neighbors of Mousily
Literary usage of Mousily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"She looked at me mousily. "Splendid!" she encouraged. "Well, he laughed a great
deal." "He would. His wife is one of the finest musicians in Europe. ..."
2. A Book about Myself by Theodore Dreiser (1922)
"... near Mr. Mitchell's big one, diving into a mass of copy the while he scratched
his ear or trifled with his pencil or jumped mousily about in his ..."
3. Bird Watching by Edmund Selous (1901)
"Nothing can look prettier than these little, soft, pinky, feathery things, as
they creep mousily into their soft, little purse of a nest; nothing can look ..."
4. Old Judge Priest by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1916)
"Very mousily indeed this eleventh- hour visitor ascended the steps, and first
trying the doorknob, knocked with a fumbling knock against the pine panels. ..."
5. The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (1910)
"For days, she stole mousily in and out, avoiding the hours when Evelyn was there,
getting up earlier in the morning, hurrying into bed at night, ..."
6. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"She looked at me mousily. "Splendid!" she encouraged. "Well, he laughed a great
deal." "He would. His wife is one of the finest musicians in Europe. ..."
7. A Book about Myself by Theodore Dreiser (1922)
"... near Mr. Mitchell's big one, diving into a mass of copy the while he scratched
his ear or trifled with his pencil or jumped mousily about in his ..."
8. Bird Watching by Edmund Selous (1901)
"Nothing can look prettier than these little, soft, pinky, feathery things, as
they creep mousily into their soft, little purse of a nest; nothing can look ..."
9. Old Judge Priest by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1916)
"Very mousily indeed this eleventh- hour visitor ascended the steps, and first
trying the doorknob, knocked with a fumbling knock against the pine panels. ..."
10. The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (1910)
"For days, she stole mousily in and out, avoiding the hours when Evelyn was there,
getting up earlier in the morning, hurrying into bed at night, ..."
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