flittermouse
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I am compelled, therefore, to speak in the way of reconciliation on both sides, lest a feud should break out, and it should eventually fare with me as with the flittermouse in the fable.
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der
Over all the jackdaws chime and chatter, for it is their home now, and they share it with the owl and the flittermouse.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden
However, in some parts of the country the bat is still called by its old English name, "the flittermouse," that is, the mouse that flitters, or flutters about.
From The Squirrels and other animals Illustrations of the habits and instincts of many of the smaller British quadrupeds by Waring, George
"But me no buts! or depart as recreant, not by the door like a man, but up the chimney like a flittermouse."
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles
After that he greased it with the fat of a bat or flittermouse, to see if it was not written with the sperm of a whale, which some call ambergris.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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