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a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.

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Saying this, the shrew pointed to a confused form, hidden under a long white veil that trailed on the floor.
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Then, the masked shrew—for so we humans have named this escape from Lilliput—flashed out into the open.
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This flexible muzzle he twisted here and there, sniffing uncertainly, for the shrew has but little sense of smell.
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His head angled into a long whiskered snout, so pointed that from above the shrew looked like a big pen.
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Confident in the fighting ability of his family, he had yet to learn that odds are nothing to a shrew.
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