2006 examples of rats in sentences

In the words of an eyewitness, the Germans fought like cornered rats among the shell holes and wire incumbrances of "No man's Land," where the struggle raged, bomb and bayonet being the principal weapons.

Mother and I always chased rats and birds, and once we killed a kitten.

She told him that the owls would destroy the rats and mice that bothered him in the barn, but if he hunted them, they would go to the woods.

It began, "There was once a town, named Hamelin, and there were so many rats in it that the people did not know what to do."

It hunted rats up the nightgown sleeves, and caught burglars by the throat as they stole into bed.

Rats are the great foe of the crops.

He says, that fifty rats are exacted for cloth for a coat (this chief wears coats) the same for a three point blanket, forty for a two-and-a-half point blanket, one hundred for a Montreal gun, one plus for a gill of powder, for a gill of shot, or for twenty-five bullets, thirty martins for a beaver trap, fifteen for a rat trap.

Some of the young, nearly the size of rats, have their tails entwined around the legs of the mother, and some around her neck,thus they are dragged along.

The master of the rats and mice, Of flies and frogs, of bugs and lice, Commands thy presence; without fear Come forth and gnaw the threshold here, Where he with oil has smear'd it.

Poison for the poor rats to strew A fine exploit it is no doubt.

He is the God of Prudence and Policy, has the head of an elephant, which is evidence of sagacity, and is attended by rats, an evidence of wisdom and foresight.

"The rats were chased out of camp and their skins tanned and made into dainty purses and handbags.

The rats having in their hurry left their skins behind them.

They preferred to fight and be killed in the open, rather than to be smothered like rats in a hole.

Engaging the services of one of these water-rats, by a judicious promise of a larger sum as payment than the one intrusted to him for the purchase, I had soon a sufficient supply, and, resting the boat-hook on one of the logs, pushed off.

The Kaiser has been foiled in his hope of witnessing the fall of Nancy, the drive for the Channel ports has begun at Ypres, and German submarines have retorted to Mr. Churchill's threat to "dig out" the German Fleet "like rats" by torpedoing three battleships.

Sooner or later these crews are doomed to die the death of rats: But you, who sent them out to do this shame; From whom they take their orders and their pay; For youavenging wrath defers its claim, And Justice bides her day.

Thirty-two rats from Casablanca.

The dog was a most determined vermin-killer, and in rats, &c., quite an accomplished one; but snakes did not often come in her way.

*** The War Office, the Board of Trade and the Zoo have formed a Triple Alliance for a campaign against rats.

Mr. Bennett, in his account of one of the mangoustes kept in the Tower, says, that on one occasion it killed no fewer than a dozen full-grown rats, which were loosened to it in a room sixteen feet square, in less than a minute and a half.

It is very expert in burrowing in the ground, which process it employs ingeniously in the pursuit of rats.

In Tartary, the owl is looked upon in another light, though not valued as it ought to be for its useful destruction of moles, rats, and mice.

They became gulls, cormorants, ravens, rats, mice, black sheep, swelling waves, whales, and very frequently cats and hares."

Grainger, a prosaic verse-writer who once commenced a paragraph of a poem with "Now, Muse, let's sing of rats!" called upon the slave drivers in the West Indies to time their imposition of cruel tasks by the opening and closing of flowers.

2006 examples of  rats  in sentences