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 will lie as still as a mouse; may I, mother?”

From Daddy's Girl by Meade, L. T.

All this time the baby kept as still as a mouse.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

When, with some difficulty, I at last succeeded in getting him up the stairs to his lodgings, he became as still as a mouse, and trembled from head to foot.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul

I am as still as a mouse already,' he remarked, laughing, 'else I shall get such a dish of aspersion to begin the day with, as I have never swallowed in all my life.'

From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann