But, all the same, I'd rather you didn't call me mousy.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
The white mice looked on coldly with their little pink eyes, while their mistress's own grew red with the misery of parting from them, and the rabbit seized the opportunity to gnaw Bridgie's skirt with its sharp teeth; but for Pixie the keenest pang of parting was over when she saw no more the floor with its scattered cabbage-leaves, and the door closed behind her, shutting out the dear mousy, rabbity smell associated with so many happy hours.
"Pixie O'Shaughnessy"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey