Then he reached in and pulled out the remains of a mouse nest.

There was a shuffling sound from inside, as though they'd uncovered a mouse nest.

The discovery of the mouse nest led to wondering what other creatures around the garden do during the winter months.

Often old mouse nests in open grassland and scrubs are used.

And your cable about a second reading, my wife's mislaid, found only this morning in a mouse nest handbag."

He opened the lid of the great tool chest and found that it was filled with long deserted mice nests.

It had become a mouse nest, covered with droppings, sawdust, bits of insulation.

The queen emerges from her hibernation at the end of March and often builds the nest in a disused mouse nest.

Davis noted that the brush mouse nest is a "globular structure" and is constructed primarily of dried grasses within natural cavities.

The forests and rangeland become as dry as mouse nests, and when thunderstorms pass by, bringing lightning without rain, ignition is inevitable.

When she had finished, with only the mouse nest remaining in the basket, she started going through the papers, starting with the one on top and working downward.

Such places include hedgerows, road sides, bushy fence rows, edges of woodlands, soybean stubble, under tree barks, bunch grass, and inside field mice nests.

There in June, right next to our old flags, we found an almost weightless fresh relic, small enough to rest in the palm of your hand: a red-white-and-blue mouse nest.

He shook his head, thinking back to Charline's party, with Dalton sitting there, long legs outstretched, his hair a rumpled mouse nest, his mouth mangling the cigar.

The nests can be constructed above ground and underground, preferably in old mouse nests but also in bird nests as well as in barns and sheds.

Brush mouse nest sites in California were found on sites with a high density coast live oak ("Q. agrifolia") overstory and an open understory with low vegetation and ground cover.

Crumpled-up paper almost filled it; at the bottom was a huge mouse nest of chewed-up paper, a nest that probably had been used by generations of mice, with an occasional new occupant adding to its dimensions.

There has been no evidence of whether the Hastings River mouse nests with others or alone, but the rodent will live in any cavity that is close to the ground, even though tree hollows are the more known nesting site.

Although it is not known if the Hastings River mouse nests with other breeds of this rodent or individually, it is known that in captivity, the Hastings River mouse can eat grain.

Alobar boycotted the cell block Christmas party, preferring to sit alone in his cubicle and breathe, even though, thanks to his escalated aging, the sterile steel cubicle had begun to stink like a mouse nest or a potato bin.