Which preposition to use with ratting

in Occurrences 116%

Caught in this house like a rat in a trap.

of Occurrences 23%

I'd been down there hunting up a man reported, by a wharf-rat of my acquaintance, to have just returned from a two years' whaling voyage.

from Occurrences 16%

This was a consummation that Tom had not bargained for, but there was no alternative but to swim for the shore, dripping like a rat from a flooded sewer.

at Occurrences 10%

That rat at the dykes of civilization, that ultimate expression of political scoundrelism, the Gun-Runner, has to be kept under and stamped out in Africa as everywhere.

for Occurrences 9%

But I have lived here in harmony with the black rats for so many years, that it does not please me to live in a place inhabited by their enemies.

to Occurrences 8%

He looks like a shifty little rat to me.

with Occurrences 7%

On the edge of the stork-nest sat two gray owls, an old, gray-streaked cat, and a dozen old, decrepit rats with protruding teeth and watery eyes.

on Occurrences 6%

Basilisk, cockatrice, Flocked to his homilies, With mail of dread device, With monstrous barbéd slings, With eager dragon-eyes; Great rats on leather wings And poor blind broken things, Foul in their miseries.

out Occurrences 6%

He is not mercurial enough for the quick changes of an orator's or journalist's fancy, whereby he is called on, one day, to dig the German warships like rats out of their harbour, and, not many days later, to spend his last shilling on the purchase of the last bullet to shoot at the German invader.

into Occurrences 4%

I'le cut the Rat into Anchovies.

among Occurrences 4%

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.

by Occurrences 3%

The rats by night such mischief did, Betty was every morning chid.

up Occurrences 3%

Mrs. Morris was very much alarmed, and cried out, "My dear William, what is the matter?" "There's a rat up my leg," he said, shaking it violently.

under Occurrences 3%

If she loved the man he, Donnegan, would let him live; if she did not love him, he, Donnegan, would kill him like a worthless rat under heel.

about Occurrences 2%

"Rats about?" asked Cossar.

after Occurrences 2%

It was getting on toward midnight when the gray rats after a diligent search succeeded in finding an open air-hole in the cellar.

beside Occurrences 2%

He looked at the dripping little brown rat beside him, and returned impulsively, "I'd rather play with you than any girl I ever saw.

like Occurrences 2%

Lord, Lord, what do such women mean by giving themselves to little rats like Bazelhurst?

down Occurrences 1%

Ah use tuh fish in er big ole fish pond rat down whah de wesson depot is now.

between Occurrences 1%

I could eat him up without salt or savorya weak reed, a kerl without backbone save of buckram; why, I will shake him this day like a rat between my hands!"

as Occurrences 1%

And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company who slyly overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice and had been altered to rats as more dignified.

over Occurrences 1%

I was all alone there with the drained goblets, the withering garlands, and the gutted torches, not a soul abroad, and not a sound save the breathing of the dormant stag-hounds by the hearth, or the faint disputes of the rats over the pasty fragments on the table.

past Occurrences 1%

" The chief scrambled down from the altar and ran like a rat past Chonita, his swollen mouth dropping.

than Occurrences 1%

Consequently, the sport is more like hunting water-rats than shooting birds.

through Occurrences 1%

They dragged the dead rat through the hedge and into a position commanded by the windows of the house, and incidentally came upon a cluster of giant earwigs in the ditch.

Which preposition to use with  ratting