as still as a mouse
Example Sentences
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He sat as still as a mouse, in the futile hope that whoever it was might go away after a single attempt.
From "1984" by George Orwell
“I won’t, and if you’ll keep as still as a mouse and not scream when I comb your hair—” “You pull like the dickens; you know you do!”
From Those Dale Girls by Carruth, Frank Weston
He soon divined my occupation, and kept as still as a mouse until by a sign I released him, when he begged, in the same language, to see what I had drawn.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
Achatz stared and giggled, but grew as still as a mouse when she cast a sharp, quiet look at him across the table.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul
She says she settled down as still as a mouse, made no smoke, and never lit so much as a candle nights.
From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Warner, Anne
