shrewmouse
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When young, Jeff would challenge himself to define a word, chasing it down through the dictionary: Fishwife to shrew to shrewmouse to insectivorous to vorous.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2016
I saw the sturdy Dudgeon’s mouth working like a bull-terrier’s over a shrewmouse.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The smallest British quadruped. then a liliputian shrewmouse turned up. he, and he only, has a prehensile tail.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
He was a water-shrewmouse, 3 and very much like the common shrewmouse that we often find lying dead in lanes and pathways.
From The Squirrels and other animals Illustrations of the habits and instincts of many of the smaller British quadrupeds by Waring, George
Among others was an extremely thin little shrewmouse, dainty and devilish, with steely eyes and thin pinched lips turning inward.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
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