"Mousehole" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 9, at half-past two in the afternoon—the wind still steady in the same quarter, and blowing fresh—the Suffolk sighted land, making out St. Michael's Mount; and fetching up to Mousehole Island, the captain hailed a mackerel boat to come alongside and take ashore some ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... must blow in the gardens, The bee must gather its store. The cat must watch the mousehole, And the dog must guard ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... quiet at Porthleah, like a wise man, and sat watching Phoby Geen like a cat before a mousehole. Phoby had turned up at the Cove in the Nonesuch on the fourth day after the lugger was lost, and at once began crying out, as innocent as you please, upon the mess that Dan'l had made through his wrongheadedness. Also the crew of the Nonesuch couldn't make out where the plan ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
