| 单词 | water rat |
| 例句 | Now he rode on the back of the hay wagon with his five hundred followers, a mighty army of rats: sewer rats, tavern rats, water rats, dockside rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z While scurrying water rats squeaked from the walls, pistoled their water, and ran for more. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A water rat scuttled away as the children felt their way I along the narrow passage. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise it was a lonely kingdom of rabbits, water birds and water rats. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mired in a fetid soup of excrement and deliquescent corpses, they “had become semi-aquatic mammals, a kind of large and vicious water rat, living in and above the drainage ditches of the marsh.” ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z “Squatters. The dispossessed. The water rats. Denizens of the deep, citizens of the shallows.” Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “I was just like a water rat,” he told Robert Fowler, a military historian, in 1996. A One-Eyed Québécois ‘Rambo’ Captures Imaginations in Canada 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Stories about enormous “water rats” abound wherever the lives of the city’s humans and its muskrats intersect. It’s a Beaver! It’s a Big ‘Water Rat’! No, It’s a Muskrat 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z “Before the ocean, it was lakes. I’ve been a water rat since I was four.” Are Algae Blooms Linked to Lou Gehrig's Disease? 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z "It's like a desert with a few water rats in it," Palmer said. W.Va. spill latest case of coal tainting US waters 2014-01-20T21:45:40Z These layers of fat are so thick that while the colossus sleeps, stretched at its full length upon an icefield, hundreds of water rats can come and settle in it. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Oh, I see a water-rat’s hole down under the banks of a dark brown stream, and I can see the water rats pop in and out. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Then the voles or water rats that live in the depths of this truly English forest are not the least curious specimens of animal life to be found therein. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z A frog is swallowed whole; a water rat has its skull split before it discovers its enemy, and speedily is undergoing the process of digestion. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The evidence afforded by the bacula available is not conclusive as to relations of Old World and New World water rats. The Baculum in Microtine Rodents 2011-11-17T03:00:33.777Z The brown rat is often mistaken for the water rat as it will take to the water on occasion and is often found in ditches and watery places. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Then we spent a whole hour trying to catch a water rat, but they are wily like the weasels, and the door of their house is deep down under the water. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z He threw a stick to the dogs, and they scurried down the bank to retrieve it, but, missing it, found distraction in rummaging for a water rat. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Take, for instance, the water rat, musquash, or the more generally used name of musk rat. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. And I didn't put in my hand to feel, having a dislike to be bitten by water rats—or any other kind of rats. Deep Moat Grange The water rat is common to central and northern Europe and is well known in England and Scotland. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z For Joe takes to the water like an Irish spaniel, and he told me that he often caught eels and also water rats. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z It has a flat tail like the beaver and not at all resembling the tapering tail of water rat. Hawk Eye These traps are set at the overflow of beaver dams and otter slideways during the open water and at little portages used by water rats crossing from one bend of a small river to another. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Now and then a water rat would rustle across his path, its passage marked only by the rasp of claws on rock. The Return of Tharn Just then a great water rat, that lived under the drain, darted suddenly out. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series "I mean Ditty and his gang of water rats," replied Tyke. Doubloons—and the Girl More than once he made his appearance with his usually frowsy hair as sleek as the coat of a water rat, and dripping, in further likeness to the animal mentioned. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted My home once belonged to a water rat. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 "There be land rats, and there be water rats." Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 She dodged here and there like a water rat, slipped in among the cattle and shot out when they swung together. Dwellers in the Hills A water rat swam past them in the middle of the canal. A Yankee Flier Over Berlin But there were other "land rats and water rats" than Benavidas, who, it may be interesting to know, died suddenly one day of strangulation, in consequence of his cravat being tied too tight. An Old Sailor's Yarns The part I cross over is full of bulrushes, and is the home of moor-hens, water rats, mosquitoes and frogs. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went It is supposed that she first ventured into the water, to which cats have a natural aversion, in pursuit of the water rats, but at length became as fond of it as a Newfoundland dog. Minnie's Pet Cat At the same moment the black cloud swept across the moon, and, with the stealth and silence of a water rat, Roddy slipped from the wharf and struck out toward the open harbor. The White Mice We shot at any thing that came in our way, and by noon our game-bag contained a curious medley of ducks, paroquets, swallows, and water rats. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery Must have had twenty water rats working on her to do that in such a short time. Gold Out of Celebes And an intelligent and bewhiskered old water rat regarded the subsequent proceedings with a tolerant eye. Mufti At one moment a giant slab of ice rose and then suddenly plunged down, almost destroying them all, like so many water rats. Peter the Priest They lived on roots and leaves and hunted the great water rats that dwelt in houses built of mud and sticks in the lake that filled all the country north of the Highlands. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Ships are but boards, sailors but men; There be land rats, and water rats, water thieves, And land thieves; I mean pirates. Newton Forster The Merchant Service She was scuttled by some water rats, and her lines cut. Gold Out of Celebes He was a prosaic old gentleman, that water rat, so his peevishness may be forgiven him. Mufti There be land rats and water rats, land thieves and water thieves—I mean pirates; and there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy She was finishing a hearty breakfast, the remains of a water rat being buried thriftily against future need after the instincts of her kind. Storm Over Warlock I wish a water rat would glide Slowly to the other side; Or a dancing spider sit On the yellow flags a bit. Marigold Garden A month or so later a Hunter was escorting a client through Komog and they swung low to get a good picture of a water rat emerging from the river. Voodoo Planet Men are not water rats, and to march all day in these heavy downpours, and to lie all night in the mud, would soon tell upon our strength. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire And once in a while a water rat or snake swam across the river. The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone Thanks to a long course of disobedience to his poor mother, he had learned to swim like a water rat. Pee-Wee Harris Adrift It is a much smaller squirrel than ours, about the size of a water rat, and beautifully striped. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books It is a dream of an afternoon, all soft and sunshiny, and the river folk are calling us, the frogs, and the water rats——" "Dear me, Madge," teased Phil, "do hush. Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid Oh, how frightened Jimmie was, for he knew big water rats ate ducks. Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble The people again clapped their hands, and some cried out, "Now little water rat, make us a new verse!" Waysiders Many of my stout fellows behind are veritable water rats. In the Days of Chivalry They are perfect water rats and like to bathe many times a day…. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated "Land rats, or water rats?" quickly demanded the other, giving his companion one of those startling and searching glances, which his keen eye had so freely at command. The Red Rover They were the water rats, the bad boys, the embryo criminals for the next generation. Lo, Michael! A water rat dived again, a duck quacked sleepily and a branch of a tree creaked mournfully under a lost puff of wind. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing Besides the deer, which are not wild, there are hares, rabbits, squirrels, two kinds of rat,—the land and the water rat,—stoat, weasel, mole, and mouse. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Even if it is only a bird, I can watch it for a long time with delight; or a water rat or a hedgehog; or better still, a weasel, a deer, or a stag. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. Good stones could be got there, water rats might be chased, there were strawberries on the banks which he gathered and threaded on stalks of grass for his sisters, Patience and Jerusha. Under the Storm Large holes in the banks immediately above the water, were probably inhabited by water rats or lizards. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 He was waiting, wet as a water rat, with his eyes fixed on her expectantly. Baree, Son of Kazan Palestra was quick and silent as a water rat, Gerald wavered and flickered, a white natural shadow. Women in Love Suddenly there came a great water rat, which lived under the drain. The Junior Classics — Volume 1 Ain't we more important than a common water rat that, even when he's dyin', swears, so I hear tell, like a ship's poll parrot? Keziah Coffin My first playmate, I remember, was a water rat. Paul Kelver, a Novel "It's something like the skin of a water rat," he said. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。