Mouselike

Tamerah Hunt, a senior at Oxon Hill High School, started last summer devising an experiment that would break new ground in the behavior of two types of vole, a shy, mouselike creature. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Inside Toynton Grange she could still hear distant sounds; brisk footsteps passing down a passage; the quiet closing of a door; the squeak of unoiled wheels as someone moved a hoist or a wheel-chair; the mouselike scrabbling sounds from next door as Grace Willison moved restlessly in her bed; a sudden blare of music, instantly muted, as someone opened and shut the sitting room door. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or even a 'bizarrely high-pitched querulous mouselike squeak.' ❋ Juliette (2009)

In the small, mouselike prairie voles that the researchers studied, the vasopressin seems to work on dopamine systems, which results in the male vole being very solicitous of his mate. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Instead of the mouselike boy Edoran had expected, he was a hulking youth of eighteen, taller than most men, his arms thick with muscle. ❋ Hilari Bell (2009)

Robyns lips tightened and she fixed Nell with her mouselike gaze. ❋ Kate Morton (2009)

Her speaking voice too was mouselike, too soft to carry well, and the podium was bare of any microphone. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Instead she had talked and talked, loud and low, in her mouselike whisper, too often broken into by her big coarse bitter croak of a laugh. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I was so lost, and the hallways of Neville so tiny and mouselike, that I crept up the stairs expecting at any moment to find myself on the roof, rather than in the walls of a bookstore. ❋ Dodie Bellamy (2008)

And this means building lasting relationships which provide stability and joy, not taking a pill or manipulating a mouselike object. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bangle's futuristic concept, the Z9, allows the driver to control the car with a large mouselike button on the armrest. ❋ Unknown (2008)