What is "mousie"

Usage examples of "mousie".

The neighborhood had always called her Mousie because she was so small, but of late she had become quiet and reclusive, as well.

As Mousie herself had said earlier, when things are out of place, you never quite know what they will do.

I said nothing to Mousie, Colin always struck me as too impetuous and too inclined to believe that everything would work out for the best.

It seemed wrong, somehow, that I had lived when everyone else had drowned, for there was no special merit to Mousie Moore.

There was an edge to her voice that we had never heard from Mousie Moore and I knew then that whatever else had transpired on that lost island, the woman who had been rescued was not the one I had lost.

Calton, not Mousie, and she let them do so even though it was evident in her milk-white face that she found it funny, funnier than being called Mousie.

Sam and Winnie drive off South alone in the Nash, the children came to appreciate Mousie, and never stopped marveling at her.

The girl, head down, took a few small steps down the hill, but as soon as Mousie turned to go back to the house, the girl spun around and started back.

Mousie was far away: the consequences of Mousie finding Bobby among them eating cheese were incalculable.

When he did remember he also remembered that Winnie no Mousie would in a moment come in to see if they were up, and call them to breakfast, and that not long after that Sister Mary Philomel would be arriving, who could not, must not, see Bobby.

He got out of bed, too late, the front door had opened and Mousie was talking.

Sister Mary Philomel arriving, and Mousie delivering Warren to be schooled.

Bobby to themselves for many days, a week at least, without Mousie knowing?

All they really had to do was nothing, which they agreed to do without speaking, to sit suspended in guilty trance between the obvious need to tell adults and the impossibility of telling, until at length Mousie opened the door.

Hildy returned, having met Warren and Mousie in the summer kitchen, on their way here.