mousey

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She was melancholy at sight of the mousey girls with whom she had “always intended to get acquainted,” and the half dozen young men who were ready to fall in love with her. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
And there's the Bijou Cottage...." Franky thus irreverently designated the large, drab, stucco-faced, eminently respectable if mousey mansion on the Square's east side, where Margot's bachelor Uncle Derek lived with his collection of moths and beetles. — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan
But I've been reading; and I've made--to you it may seem silly to call it a discovery, but to me it's the greatest discovery I've ever made: that people are just people, all of them--that the little mousey clerk may be a hero, and the hero may be a nobody--that the motorman that lets his beastly car spatter mud on my nice new velvet skirt may be exactly the same sort of person as the swain who commiserates with me in his cunnin' Harvard accent. — The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, Sinclair Lewis

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