Mouse Color

This animal was one of the smallest of his family, and of a color uncommon among them; for they are mostly either of a yellowish dun, or of that slaty mouse-color known among dog-fanciers as "blue," -- a tint, by the way, particularly appropriate for a dog of Skye. ❋ Various (N/A)

They are of a mouse-color above, and white beneath. ❋ Walter Barnes (N/A)

Smyly of Dublin reported a case of suppurative disease of the temporal bone, in which the hair changed from a mouse-color to a reddish-brown; and Squire records a congenital case in a deaf mute, in whom the hair on the left side was in light patches of true auburn and dark patches of dark brown like a tortoise-shell cap; on the other side the hair was a dark brown. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Smyly of Dublin reported a case of suppurative disease of the temporal bone, in which the hair changed from a mouse-color to a reddish-brown; and Squire records a congenital case in a deaf mute, in whom the hair on the left side was in light patches of true auburn and dark patches of dark brown like a tortoise-shell cap; on the other side the hair was ❋ Unknown (1896)

At college young Burke did not prove a brilliant student -- his intellect and aptitude it seems were a modest mouse-color that escaped attention. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

Some were of a soft mouse-color, and the others were white, black, and vari-colored. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

At a little distance, leisurely cropping the long grass, stood his favorite horse, whose arched forehead and peculiar mouse-color proclaimed his unmistakable descent from the swift hordes that scour the Kirghise steppes, and sanctioned the whim which induced his master to call him "Tamerlane." ❋ Unknown (1872)

Tutor -- Those were sand martins, the smallest of our four species of swallows They are of a mouse-color above and white beneath. ❋ Richard McAllister (1864)

It is shorter and more slender in its growth, quite free from spines, and its canes are of a peculiar mouse-color. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)