This it is that makes the Amusement of Life-to a speculative Mind-I go among the Fields and catch a glimpse of a Stoat or a fieldmouse peeping out of the withered grass-the creature hath a purpose, and its eyes are bright with it.
"Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends"
John Keats
The fieldmouse builds her garner under ground.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown
He managed to put in the whole forenoon planning and making estimates, and he was so cheerful afterwards that he whistled and sang, and later he tied a piece of jerky on the end of a string and teased a fat fieldmouse, whose hunger made him venturesome.
"The Ranch at the Wolverine"
B. M. Bower