mice-less

See also: miceless

English

Adjective

mice-less (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of miceless
   • 1958 January 4, “Cat Dies In Line Of Duty”, in The Tampa Daily Times, sixty-fifth year, number 285, Tampa, Fla., page twenty, column 2:

     “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.

   • 1959 May 18, Don White, ““Kiddie Tranquilizers” For Trip? Try Mice!”, in Journal Herald, 152nd year, number 118, Dayton, Oh., page 3, column 7:

     “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.

   • 1967 September 22, The Lincoln Star, 65th year, number 305, Lincoln, Neb., page 27:

     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.

   • 1993 March 17, “Classified”, in The News-Messenger, Fremont, Oh., page B4:

     BARN CATS / OUTSIDE CATS / BE MICE-LESS!

   • 1994 July 6, Judi Tull, “Smithfield decorator wins franchise’s national award”, in Daily Press, 99th year, number 187, Newport News, Va., page S3:

     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.

   • 1997 December 19, The Journal Times, Racine, Wis., page 2A:

     [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.