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Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed for so doing that they are perfect mousing apparatuses, so perfect and so delicately adjusted that no one of their organs could be altered, without the change involving the alteration of all the rest.
The eagle loves the awful solitude of her sublime cliffs, which remove her far from the importunate chattering and impertinent intrusion of magpies and daws; but it is truly a misfortune to the country that the imperial bird should sleep on her lonely eyrie, and leave the supreme dominion to region kites and mousing owls.
Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed for so doing that they are perfect mousing apparatuses, so perfect and so delicately adjusted that no one of their organs could be altered, without the change involving the alteration of all the rest.
"Either cutting firewood or beginning on that camp," said Jim. Presently the chopping ceased. Before long the two men appeared on the top of the bank, dragging a spruce trunk about twenty feet long. On seeing the Barracouta they halted in surprise, then dropped the tree and hurried down to their dory. "Seem to be afraid we've been mousing round aboard their boat," muttered Spurling.
Beauty had touched me, Wisdom come to birth; and Love, whispering through the silence those marvellous words that sum up all spiritual experience, proved it to me: "Be still and know...." I found myself moving slowly across the lawn again towards the house. I presently heard the wind mousing softly in the limes. The air was fresh and cool. The first stars were out.
His first glance showed him the Golden Butterfly still steadily plugging along, and a moment later it became apparent that they had seen the sudden descent of the Cobweb, for the aeroplane was seen to dip and glide lower, much as a mousing hawk can be seen to do. "Hard luck," murmured the young naval officer, as Mortlake, who had clambered out of the machine, stamped and fumed by its side.
They walked together a good minute without speaking, Soames with his mousing, mincing step, and old Jolyon upright and using his umbrella languidly as a walking-stick. They turned presently into comparative quiet, for old Jolyon's way to a second Board led him in the direction of Moorage Street. Then Soames, without lifting his eyes, began: "I've had this letter from Bosinney.
"What's the matter with so-and-so?" would ask a mousing neighbor. "He's sick," ran the laconic reply. "Goin' to die?" one daring querist ventured further. "Some time," said the doctor. But though he assumed a right to combat thus the outer world, no one was gentler with a sick man or with those about him in their grief.
There is a church-yard cough I don't see why there may not be a church-yard laugh. In Dangerfield's certainly there was an omen a glee that had nothing to do with mirth; and more dismaying, perhaps, than his sternest rebuke. If a man is not a laugher by nature, he had better let it alone. The bipeds that love mousing and carrion have a chant of their own, and nobody quarrels with it.
How could he fall, when his soul abhorred circumstances which render a fall possible a man cannot fall off the floor! That slight superciliousness of his, combined with an air of mousing amongst precedents, was in his favour too a man would not be supercilious unless he knew!
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