Meaning of mice-less | Babel Free

Examples

““Kitty” was found overcome from smoke between two trucks parked in the building. She was the pet of all of the Miller Company employes and especially of Mrs. W. C. Dearden, book[-]keeper, who said the cat inspected the shelves of merchandise regularly and took great pride in keeping the building mice-less.”

““I promised I would buy them some new mice as soon as I could find some.” But the officer’s luck had run out. No mice were available and the children grew more restless with each additional “mice-less” mile.”

“MICE-LESS MAZE / This kitten pokes its head from some electrical conduits stacked at the construction site of the new federal building in Fargo, N. D., after an apparently fruitless search through all those likely-looking tubes.”

“BARN CATS / OUTSIDE CATS / BE MICE-LESS!”

“You might say Angie Lowry’s career as an interior decorator was predicted by the handwriting on the wall many years ago. When she was 6 years old in her native Cheshire, England, her “mum” came in one night and found her darling daughter crayoning mice onto an otherwise mice-less wallpaper.”

“[Nathan] Lane’s dream movie mice-less /[…]He had to act with real mice, animatronic ones and computer-generated images.[…][He] said he’s much more comfortable with low-tech than high-tech.”

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