Crossword-Solution: MOUSED 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Louis, moused around, shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve.

Henry George moused nights at the Quaker Apprentices' Library, and he also read Franklin's "Autobiography"; his mind was full of Poor Richard maxims, which he sprinkled through his diary; but best of all, with seven other printers he formed another "Junta," and they met twice a week to discuss "poetry, economics and Mormonism." It was very sophomoric, of course, but boys of eighteen who study anything and defend it in essays and orations are right out on the highway which leads to superiority.

All day long he moused about his new estate, field-glasses dangling, cap on the back of his head, pockets bulging with untidy odds and ends until the increasing carelessness of his attire and manners moved Kathleen Severn to protest.

Chilled by my reception, I moused about for a while, poking into boxes and bundles; then raised my head and inspected the landscape.

Sherman was a professor in a college at Baton Rouge before the War, and evidently had moused in the Latin classics to a purpose.