mousey

Alternative spelling of mousy.

Yes, it must be hell. It hasn't stopped Hathaway, though. The star of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 is now the star of One Day, playing complicated, mousey Yorkshireperson Emma Morley.

Alternative spelling of mousy.

It came back again, and would run on the strings / When all were at rest in the house, / And backward and forward, from treble to bass, / Sometimes in a trot, and sometimes in a race— / Huzza for my musical mouse! / At night, when the house would be still, and the moon / Behind the high hill would retire, / By harmony’s magical powers impress’d, / This gay little mousey would steal from its nest, / And run up and down on each wire.

It was so much better to have things that are alive, he said, than mere wooden playthings, that he would rather have his mice than all his other playthings together. “I wonder what this little mousey is thinking about,” said he, one day, as he sat looking at them; “he must be thinking about something, he sits so still. How nice it would be if we could look into the minds of such creatures, wouldn’t it mother?”