Once upon a time a dormouse lived in the wood with his mother.
The common English dormouse is a most charming little animal, and a great pet with children.
The dormouse in its wild state lives on fruits, seeds, nuts and buds.
The gardener assured me it was the dormice which eat it all.
These mice can be very easily tamed, and live happily in cages, like dormice.
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Those not fond of those clauses would hate to be thought an enemy of thedormouse, the military orchid or the drooping saxifrage.
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The threateneddormouseand field vole nestle in their midst; along with nesting birds such as the tree sparrow and yellowhammer.
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Schedule 2 of the regulations contains a list of protected species of animal, for example, the bat and thedormouse.
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He had better return to his period as adormouse.
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Thedormouseis still in decline, but its position is much better at present than we had assumed a couple of years ago.
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One example given was of a llama; another was of adormouse.
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They cannot be put in the same bag as the otter, thedormouseor the red squirrel.
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Most of the creatures mentioned in the schedule are not normally regarded as pets, except possibly thedormouse.
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He was rather somnolent, perhaps, somewhat a rival of thedormouse.
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It ended by putting thedormouseinto the teapot.
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Many, if not all, of the species she mentioned—the grey partridge, the song thrush and thedormouse—are afforded protection within the framework of our biodiversity plans.
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We know remarkably little about thedormouse.
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It may have been adormouse.
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Among the mammals are thedormouse, weasel, mole, badger, marten, fox and wild boar (whose presence is resented for damage to crops).
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Dormouselard was also useful for medicinal purposes.
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