And when they shut off the water first and then the power next, it stunk and the rats came, braver than the bugs, more invasive than the men. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He also injected them into rats to see if they’d cause cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

One time when my mother complained about him being so hard to please about food, Papa said, “Hon, what if you’d had to eat a rat?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"But those rats look tame enough to eat off your hand." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like the human being version of a rat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not as much fun being a rat.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how many would you say there were of these rats?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rat stumbled, dazed, for a few steps, then it began to run. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Would rats, too, have shed their tails and learned to walk erect? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Will looked at the two of them, the skinny pale-eyed girl with her black rat dæmon now sitting in her arms, and felt profoundly alone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time in my short life, rats were a preferable option to humans. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And I said I wanted another rat but Mother said I couldn’t have one because the room was too small. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are always rats on old ships,” I tell him. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he’s very strong, but I do wish that we had some real weapons of war—swords and daggers and such like. We won’t kill many rats with wooden staves.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Perched on top of it, ready to spring, was a villainous-looking rat with a cutlass clenched between his teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was two huge rats...and a dark shadowy something! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a rustling noise and a black rat appeared. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Had these rats, then, come here from someplace else? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just like I planned it, when the auditorium went dark for Act III, Pink and I slipped through a door by the stage and tiptoed back where the rats were. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Constance was a far more powerful and accurate thrower than any rat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Some people thought rats didn’t eat people, but Gregor knew better. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She flipped open her notebook and showed James the hidden words she’d found: fort, wild, home, rat, open, and belief. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

How could I ever forget guys who looked like toads and rats, and a giant made of a billion flies? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But when Act II started, my mind floated up to the stage and, like a ghost, went through the painted set into the dark corner where we’d hidden the rats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about the rubber rat and the tiny birds that had suddenly come alive when the wind blew. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the bread was riding a fat rat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they knew how people in the Overland tried to trap, poison, and kill off all the rats aboveground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emilien darts away like a rat when I come in, before I can stop him. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The big one, rat. I said no to my mom. This morning. You shoulda been there. I’m going out to school, okay? My mom says, ‘Pick up this floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon it just dissolves,” said I, gathering up the rats on a pitchfork. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes. Out. The rats. What of them?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Therefore, Marburg lived in some other kind of host—an insect? a rat? a spider? a reptile? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the gloves on, reached into the hole and placed the two dead rats into the sack. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yet they had been here—or at least there had been rats here—for as long as she could remember. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rat evaded the question and made a great show of rubbing his injured leg. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"There's good money in sewer rats. The meaner, the better." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as this boy brings his rat up to the castle” — he jerked his head at Ron — “I’ll come quietly....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“This is the student who let the rats go,” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

By that time, Mr. Guareschi, who had heard all the screaming, was trying to get the exterminator to go inside the tennis courts to catch the rats. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It took the rat sentries a moment or two to recover from their surprise. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes. As a matter of fact, I’m just going to my room for a good long rest. But don’t you worry, before long I’ll make those rats pay dearly for hurting your father.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The wildest of all our falcons, the one most intolerant of human beings, has discovered rats. She will be an enormous asset to Delhi.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The dungeon door slammed and the two rats watched a man being led by a king’s soldier down the stairs into the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Holy rats,” Seven said, staring at the sword. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

If five cats catch five rats in five minutes, how many cats will it require to catch 100 rats in 100 minutes? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The dark things in the princess’s heart were these: a very small, very hot, burning coal of hatred for the rat who was responsible for her mothers death. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I tried it again, thinking about Caliban and Sycorax—the rats, not the monsters in the play—because I wanted to make the “strange stuff” come out more like a hiss. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the rat in a newspaper and went out of the door and down the stairs and put it into a garbage can at the corner of an alley. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only Gregory and the rats can find their way through this maze. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rats would swing the cord round and round, gaining momentum until, judging the right direction, they loosed the cord. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Gimme that skillet, Buddy,” he asked quietly, not taking his eyes from the rat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rats opened their snouts and clacked their yellow teeth at her. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The other rats watched her from the corners of the rooms as she ran after it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

With her broad bill the goose pushed the unhatched egg out of the nest, and the entire company watched in disgust while the rat rolled it away. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You have to be careful about the rats, in case they’re rabid, but for the most part they’re okay, too. They eat the bodies and leave everyone else alone.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

This, of course, was a ridiculous law, as rats are outlaws to begin with. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Down below, the scrabbling of rats’ feet and the monotonous thud of the ram continued. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I remember that when one rat was being tagged, she looked at it and said, “Poor little thing, he’s frightened. Look how he’s trembling.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s from a horror movie. Same title. Literally about a boy befriending a rat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He cleared the fencetop at a bound and tapped the nearest rat on the back. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In poor neighborhoods garbage mounded in alleys and overflowed giant trash boxes that became banquet halls for rats and bluebottle flies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The rat was very young indeed, only a child. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, here you are at last,” said the rat idly. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I teased, after a giant rat charged past us outside her dorm—and its student population, twice the size of Princeton’s, was almost entirely black. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Grandma Knife's hands are strong enough to snap a rat's neck. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We have a spell from the rats in the trench. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor knew he had to say what had happened, but all that came out was, “Henry was working with the rats. He made some deal for the throne.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I had a good bank, safe from the rats and from the rain and snow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was the tunnel; the rats in Mossflower Wood were attending to his second scheme; and the third—Cluny glanced over to the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Get out, rats! Leave this Abbey! I’m weary of your voices. Hurry before I break the laws of hospitality and ask the Abbot’s pardon later. Go, while you still have skulls.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Emily took over the keyboard and typed, Do you know what fort, wild, home, rat, open, and belief mean? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the man who held it saw that he had four rats, he pulled a draw string that closed it up. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the right pocket, hidden in case they should encounter anyone on the stairs, was a rat with a spoon on his head and a cloak of red around his shoulders. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Would you tell us, as well as you can remember it, word for word what Mr. Fitzgibbon said—about the rats, about the men who were at the store?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s name, reader, was Miggery Sow And though she did not yet know it, she would be instrumental in helping the rat work his revenge. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But, the researchers concluded, the rats don’t appear to encode that experience as learning and memory unless they have some downtime after the experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Fearing lizards and rats, cockroaches and snakes, Shirley hastened to her father’s side. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He is not a person, he is a rat,” said Henry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without moving another muscle, the rat flicked his tail. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Lucky for us all. Know you the rats are in retreat?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many were sparrows, shrews and woodland defenders, but they were far outnumbered by the slain rats, ferrets, weasels and stoats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was never one to rat on people. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And I knew he wouldn’t rat on me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He works for the Public Good. He hurt his leg and I’m helping him out ’cause he has to kill all the rats.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This general despair was just one of the reasons they didn’t detect the score of rats until they were almost on top of them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What were the rats doing to his dad, anyway? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three successive times, they encountered and were rescued by well-fed Aborigines whose home was that desert, and who plied the explorers with fish, fern cakes, and roasted fat rats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would erase it all: the smell, the rats, the giant mountain of rotting food. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“That rat! He didn’t even need those points. Selfish poacher,” Emily muttered. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He spoke aloud to the sink and the white rats, and to himself: Even now, I know that I have savored the hot taste of life Lifting green cups and gold at the great feast. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat crews that manned the heavy object were changed every hour by Cheesethief, who stayed with the ram the whole time, encouraging the carriers on to greater efforts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

That was the whole point of the community—to allow us to escape the money-hungry rat race of modern society. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t see how eight people, six large trunks, two owls, and a rat were going to fit into one small Ford Anglia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Yes, a pet rat. He’s very clean and he hasn’t got bubonic plague.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He might trip, and he had to lead the rats as far away as possible from everybody. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aurora would just have to manage if the rats climbed the wall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish there wasn’t this hole at the top. Any old rat thing could crawl inside.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it might have been a big rat, I suppose, or perhaps a stoat. Something he went for that put up a fight.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. Now move, Overlander. Eat, don’t eat, but let’s go,” ordered Ripred. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All there is to store work is watchin’ out for rice weevils and rotten potatoes, and keepin’ the rats out of the seed corn.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We could hear the rain, a rat in the crib, the empty barn vacant with horses. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That trapdoor cellar? With the lizards and the rats? Mighty dark. Mighty, mighty, mighty dark.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The time some guys cornered two VC in a dead-end tunnel, no way out, but how, when the tunnel was fragged and searched, nothing was found except a pile of dead rats. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d think about Aunt Loma with that lapful of rat or my mother jumping up on the seat, and it was like I was a gun fired off. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Despereaux saw the dark shape of a rat, that thing that he had feared and dreaded for so long, finally step out of the gloom and come to greet him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The next morning at daybreak she went to see the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Scurvy rats, hungry ferrets, sly weasels, bad stoats—exactly what he needed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“My hostel in Nsukka was dirty but there were no rats o.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Matthias could see rats among the hay, but these were no ordinary rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Caliban—the monster in the play, not the escaped rat—he knew cuss words. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Well, Miss Destiny, the rat crop of New York practically supports our wild raptors now that we’ve wiped out most of their natural food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It landed on a carcass near the water’s edge-a dead dog or a rat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A word scramble, maybe? Open wild rat home...Rat fort belief...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

With all the rats, and a great deal of luck, he managed to lift the hay cart until it was halfway out of the ditch. 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

The rat bowled over, completely winded, all the fight knocked out of its body. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The boss cop said,“You lily-livered rats,” and it was like someone said, “On your mark, get set, go!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A long nose poked over the first rat’s shoulder. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Still, there is much confusion in war and no rat has identified you. We move on now!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a rat can hang from a chandelier for only so long before he is discovered. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was walking up a cobbled street of little two-story houses with battered doorways which gave straight on the pavement and which were somehow curiously suggestive of rat holes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But I did want to hear if he was going to rat me out, or if they knew I was there. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“But my good rats, surely you must realize that I can do nothing without my stock of herbs? Now please let me pass.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You call that miserable thing a pig? That’s a fine specimen of a pig—it’s no bigger than a white rat.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He says that the things that move in are common weeds, and cockroaches and rats: soon all flowers will be dandelions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said she felt a little sorry for the rat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at the first clang of the cleanup men in the distance, one of the older rats would sound a warning, and everyone would pick up as much food as he could to carry home. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose the school board figured that if Mrs. Sidman could pick up two huge rats by the scruff of their necks and carry them through the halls, she could certainly handle middle schoolers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Do not speak to me of rats and what they know!” he shouted. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rat had never come back, but the bugs had multiplied hideously in the heat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“No gods down there, m’lord. Only rats and water snakes. White things, thick as your leg. Sometimes they slither up the steps and bite you in your sleep.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was falling backwards, into enormous depths, away ffom the rats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

‘A mouse is but one step removed from a rat. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

A few of the rats snarled and tried to bite; I did not, and neither did Jenner; it was too obviously futile. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rat took hold of the tablecloth in his strong teeth and pulled it off the shoulders of the man. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

If he fought this rat, he wouldn’t stand a chance. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One peddler was hawking rats roasted on a skewer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Surely rats would have developed reading and writing, judging by the way we took to it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rat was swollen to twice his normal size. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Let’s save the rats for Miss Loma! For the school play!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The instinctive fear and fierceness of a rat came over him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No, they had spoken of danger, but no one had specifically mentioned rats except the cockroaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way along the streets seen only by cats, rats, and a slave hurrying by with a bundle on her head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But couldn’t a rat get at the wheat anyway? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Fitzgibbon said the rats were grouped around the motor ‘as if they were trying to move it’?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She saw something that all of the others, including the rats, did not see. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I was thinking, “Who cares whether the little rug rat meant to hurt Jeffrey? He did, and now there’s no way to take it back.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The defenders followed the two rats closely, menacing them with staves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want people to think we’re “some of those hood rats who frequent their establishments.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The rats racing across the ruined landscape with dollar signs in their eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonists in Jamestown broke off from complaining about their Indian neighbors to complain about the depredations of the rats they had accidentally imported. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It fell over, the rat did, and from its nylon fur streamed an incredible horde of metal fleas. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why doesn’t he import rats and cockroaches too? From what I hear, his village was covered with them.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We used to dread it. There were rats down there. We could hear them creeping about.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Treading the dead world under like rats on a wheel. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A huge rat considered them with its flat black eyes before bending again to gnaw on a bone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the tunnel entrance in the ditch, Fangburn and Killconey were madly thrust aside as rats, weasels, ferrets and stoats fought their way out of the tunnel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After repeating “are” a dozen times or so, that particular shape disappeared and another one came on the screen, still under the picture of the rat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, ” shouted Botticelli, “do kill him! He is a miserable excuse for a rat. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Tell her I got dead rat all over my shoes.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice the grime and dirt, or the long, brawny rats running across the track—he was too elated by the success of his plan. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Enoch said, “You mean things other than rats and cholera and whatever sorts of mad trolls live beneath crypts?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s actually you. Not a butt-dial. I get everyone’s butt-dials. Always have. Always will. Unless I change my name. Identity change seems like a good idea since I sang you a song about a rat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She would never forgive me if I went behind her back and ratted her out to her mother. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As the Warrior Mouse lay upon the ground, the rat roared and stabbed downwards with the spiked railing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"That those greedy-eyed city rats take one look at this stuff and walk right past." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everybody knows that when a barn rat looks down into a barrel that seems half full of shucked corn, he never suspicions that it’s really half full of water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Gregor touched his father’s shoulder and realized he was wearing a cloak made of rat fur. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got mop and pail, sprayed a room with disinfectant, and scrubbed at coagulated blood and hardened dog, rat, and rabbit feces. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And just what do I do with this? Huh, Frightful? Pate de rat?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She squints at it and asks, “Is that a rat on your grandfather’s shoulder?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“And you’re thinking about how rats are supposed to go for people’s throats.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She was a rat now, and she scampered up the grating and examined it closely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jarveys live mostly below ground, where they pursue gnomes, though they will also eat moles, rats and voles. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, rabbits were not domesticated for food until the Middle Ages, mice and rats for laboratory research not until the 20th century, and hamsters for pets not until the 1930s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were beach rats like him and Pima. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now Bubba was nibbling like a rat on his hot dog. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time the last of the other assembled rats had made their way into a large meeting hall, where they sat facing the raised platform. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No one in China eats rats,” I said stiffly. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, when she took off her bun, she allowed her grandchildren to plait her remaining hair into a tight, oiled, gray rat’s tail with a rubber band at the end. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in spite of everything we threw at him, Cap never fell apart, or ratted us out, or even got mad. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And each jammed with Irish Catholics who, it was said, bred like wharf rats. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She believes the rats want your father to make them a thumb!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pollux knows details that would lead to disaster for a newcomer, like which offshoots might require gas masks or have live wires or rats the size of beavers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was a sad, birdlike man with the spatulate face and scrubbed, tapering features of a well-groomed rat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were not in the least confused; they were making seven rats look like twenty rats, or forty, a steady stream of them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

No one has ratted out Gale and me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a dead rat decomposing in the wall, right near the hot-air vent. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they instruct you, too, to beware of the rats?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I took the rat from my pocket and held it by one leg for them to see. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Then he began to whisper: ‘Rats, rats, rats! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And feeling simultaneously a twist of triumph— Leon was such a rat, let him have some bad news for a change. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skillful creature dodged a rat, spun round and landed a fierce double-footed kick to its stomach. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dimblewit, an apt name, nodded triumphantly, and Seven was about to tell her to eat rats when Thorn cleared her throat. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But from a rat’s point of view, poison is objectionable. A Chairman has to see all sides to a problem.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But now we were face to face with huge, scabby, yellow-toothed, angry rats, looking at us with eyes reddened with anger. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She realized that the corridor she had walked in up above was merely a long entranceway, and that the halls around her were the rats’ real living quarters. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She touched on silver lunch trucks and designer labels and enchanted places, and when she said her best friend gave her pet rat a ride on his shoulder, tears came to my eyes. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Around noon, when the air had wanned, Frightful gave the little eyas the last bites of the rat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I started off into the blackness of the night while my mind wheeled and darted this way and that, like a scared rat trying to find its way out of a trap. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, Cooke took out the rats and held them as the doctor solemnly injected the mysterious fluid under their skins. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we are all here except the rat,” said Charlotte. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jilly, with her fat tummy showing between her shorts and her top, and Deidre, with her ratted hair and pink lipstick, moved closer. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Today I catch sight of rats scurrying away from the water of his mop, disappearing into dark corners of the deck. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like there was a rat under there,” said George. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is to say that the dungeon smelled of rats. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The force of his movement shook the rat loose and it sailed through the air and struck a wall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Flying rats, but how beautifully they touch down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"What a sweet, delicious rat! All juicy and oh so fat!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If the rat doesn’t get sick, then it knows it can eat the whole thing—a knowledge it retains for the rest of its life. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And the rat began to climb a rope that hung against the wall. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Buddy opened out a newspaper and covered the smear of blood on the floor where the rat had been crushed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His rat soul longed inexplicably for it; he began to think that light was the only thing that gave life meaning, and he despaired that there was so little of it to be had. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The size of big rats, they hang limp and lifeless in his hands, their fur matted to their bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked into the woods, over toward the saplings where the other rat lay. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few rats scurried away as the girl shined her light after them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a blow of its paw, the cat knocked the rat into the air, and caught it in its mouth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, what do you expect? It’s a rat's nest.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had heard that pigeons were dirty, filthy, nothing more than rats with wings. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Black rats or white ones? I’m not sure I can tell the difference.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too late — the rat had slipped between Ron’s clutching fingers, hit the ground, and scampered away. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Fire Swamp R.O.U.S.s were a pure rat strain, weighed usually eighty pounds, and had the speed of wolfhounds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We talked and argued and considered, and we remembered our evenings in the library at the Boniface Estate when we had wondered what a rat civilization would be like. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And so, the killing of all rats was not successful. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they thought there were more rats lurking among the sweets, or perhaps they’d heard footsteps, because a second later, Hermione Granger had come in. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They say it’s a real rat race and I hope to win it.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are men who come out at night like the rats that swim in Green River.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s one certain way to prove what really happened. Ron, give me that rat.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Sandwich could never clearly see if in fact you succeed in bringing back light or if you fail. But he most adamantly insisted we attempt the venture or die by the rats’ teeth.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the Fjerdan just wants us behind bars before he rats us out. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"How dare you say that when your rotten hotel is full of rats anyway!" my grandmother cried. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

We fight the rats and we fight the stink from that lavatory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ron’s old rat, Scabbers, was here no more, but instead there was the tiny gray owl that had delivered Ron’s letter to Harry in Privet Drive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The minute there’s a sign of a rat or a mention of one Mam is out the door and up the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I just went out to see if I caught any rats in my new trap.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that meeting will occur much later, and for now, the rat is nothing but happy, delighted, amazed to find himself standing in so much light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, in the banquet hall, the Princess Pea spotted him and called out the word “rat,” and because of this Roscuro fell into the queen’s soup. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Tell that to all the kids at school calling me a rat. Tell it to Zippernose. Tell it to Joey.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s nuts is that despite the fact that my score was one of four that didn’t change, Bryce ratted me out as the mastermind.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

We played “witch doctor” with the many odd-looking bones extracted from the rotting carcasses of dogs, cats and rats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the rats want his dad to teach chemistry? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Fill them up. Now, come on dear—down the rat hole. After two or three the bad things go away.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because he is also invoked against rats, he will perhaps aid us in the office, too. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nate looked around, thinking it was one of the cats that chased rats around the camp. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The steppes, the flat grassland of southeastern Europe, crawled with rats and mice. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Some rats ran off down the road, others hurled themselves into the ditch, pursued by the relentless, stinging insects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you know, clearing Luce’s stuff out. God, she was a pack rat. You can barely open her drawers. You know, I found your grandmother’s wedding veil. I’ve been looking for that thing for ages.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The rat stopped under a chair and let out a furious screak. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And then what? What will happen when he announces that there’s a group of civilized rats roaming loose—rats that can read, and think, and figure things out?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fort, wild, home, rat, open, belief, she chanted to herself as she wandered among the bookshelves. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of dogs’ teeth and rats’ fur, of fresh bones and old scabs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen my share of rats zip past, and the occasional wayward sparrow had fluttered in through a hole in my ceiling. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Something rustled near the cashew trees, and Harrison leaped up and ran over to see if it was a bush rat he could catch. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

No, these rustles belonged to the prairie night—pack rats and prairie dogs and who knew what else. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her hair ratted, her nose smudged, and she left handprints wherever she went. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“So, how long have you had this plan with the rat?” asked Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think they’re kind of cute, but Mama says squirrels are just rats with bushy tails. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They had rested in the straw of a starveall, or lonely barn, and woken to find themselves attacked by rats. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose some rats made it through, slipping between the men and past the lights. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And as he did so, his whiskers brushed against the rat’s nose. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They knew that the strutting rat in armor was not Cluny the Scourge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know how big a rat on the loose can get in five months,” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her gown was covered in sequins that winked and glimmered at the rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

My father mostly concentrated on his lima beans, until my sister pointed out that a steady diet of lima beans had already killed lab rats, and was probably killing us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

One of them was that Chicago was overrun with rats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Think carefully, my son. Was there anything special you noticed about this rat?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

No living thing escaped, not even the rats. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He laid the rat down and started to dress. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s all about being in fourth grade now. You know, a rat? Third grade angels, fourth grade rats? So I’m not an angel anymore.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to tell him about the owl and the rats, tell him that something still might be done. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is time for us to turn our attention elsewhere, time for us, reader, to speak of rats, and of one rat in particular. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What ho, old rat! Showing a bit of initiative? Never ask the troops to do what you can’t do yourself and all that! Splendid!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Florida tossed and turned and eventually dreamed about lizards and rats chasing her through the woods. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt kinda sick saying that—weird, like I was ratting Noodles out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“No. I thought ‘one gnawer beside’ meant a rat would be tracking us, perhaps even chasing us. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, apparently that girl had ratted him out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We were given special opportunities, including weekly trips to a community college to attend an advanced writing workshop or dissect a rat in the biology lab. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The thought of rats living in his coffins knotted my stomach as I signed my name. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His long front teeth were bared like the fangs of a rat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the forest foods of ruffed grouse, turkeys, raccoons, and wood rats, the eastern coyote almost died out. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scramble out a bed, her hair in a rat’s nest. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s new since I left the city. How do people put up with it, the corpses and the rats?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Remember how frequently the rats patrol this area.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rats who had been chasing him, and it must have been about all of them, were falling after him in an avalanche of stone. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rat’s heading straight for Trub, but he doesn’t seem concerned. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He never went back to work at the Garden, but that girl, the bossy one, never ratted him out, either. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, I remember that my old grandad once knew a sea rat,” she answered. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The squirrels, the mice, rats, frogs, possums, lizards. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She flipped open her notebook and showed James the hidden words she’d found: fort, wild, home, rat, open, and belief. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rat gave one final squeal and then there was a snap, followed by a sickening crunch. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Go and boil your head, rat!” came Constance’s gruff reply. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They did not know that under the straw was a rat, and inside a knothole was a big grey spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They did this for a while, and the rat or mouse stopped going to get the food at a certain amount of voltage. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Heard about a new rat poison on the market. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t do anything ... and Eden .. . he’s not a lab rat, you know.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I looked back, and there were the demon rats, racing with their scabby paws toward me, their eyes filled with the Big M—Murder!—and their pointy heads bobbing up and down with each leap. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A pair of rats sprang from around the bend. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Here now. Enough of that, rat. You are here to talk with the Abbot. Get along with you.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Grass and thorns, blackberries broken on the ground, mud, worms, rotting leaves, a rat creeping through the bush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I ran like Jesse Owens with the Big M. Meanwhile, the story of the rats grew larger. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t rat them out. Pudge here certainly didn’t rat them out, but you brought him in on your fun. Truce? Hmm, let me take a poll real quick.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As Zaman and I sat down, I saw a gray rat poke its head from a burrow in the wall and flit across the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike us, rats can’t pass lessons or food habits down to their many, many children. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some inventive rat had devised a fearsome weapon: chunks of iron grave-railings from the churchyard, strung to lengths of cord. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The men in suits drive away and the stable man says he has to wait for the lorry to take Finn away, he can’t leave him alone or the rats will be at him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I think that reporter is a rat fink,” was his contribution to the discussion. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, you can have the rat, don’t hurt me ...” “Reek,” said the larger of the boys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he had suddenly understood that in the whole world there was just one person to whom he could transfer his punishment—one body that he could thrust between himself and the rats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Panting and sweating, a large mob of rats dashed to and fro burdened by the battering ram. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The long battering ram lay unguarded, conveniently spotlighted by the rats’ abandoned torches. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Have you ever had hold of the tail of a rat? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Any rat in a sewer can lie, Tam Lin had said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to keep all our food safe from rats and mice and cats, so the women wove grass baskets for storage. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each scurrying rat and windblown soda can racked up Sierra’s growing nervousness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She and Papa lived in an apartment so small there was barely enough room for the two of them—and the family of rats that refused to leave. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

But Two couldn’t get the rat because the rat was nosing around Two’s feet and Two was bolting from his camera. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, teams of Sparra warriors were jointly lifting struggling rats and flying high to drop them into the middle of the Abbey pond. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Buckthorn had been bitten in the foreleg, and the wound, in the manner of a rat bite, was irritant and painful. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spiders had held them off, but many had died on both sides before the rats had finally retreated. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept the rat in my pocket so no one would take it from me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

By the third bite the rat had ceased to struggle, and he was feeling almost content. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Can’t a rat catch a wink of sleep without being rudely popped into the air?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“A rat! Think I’m going to eat rat?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He swallowed back his nausea as a rat scurried over his arm, squealing. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grain-fed rats were swarming over the two of them, nipping and biting and clinging like leeches. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The frightening thing was, the rats looked more appetizing than most of what the butchers were selling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And they think some rats here might be infected?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, the rats didn’t matter, not really, because I was in a place where Margo had been alive. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How far are the rats from us now?” he asked. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Empty paint buckets, paint brushes, stepladders, stools, saucepans, frying-pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil—anything those brutes could lay their hands on came raining down upon the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the back room of the laboratory the white rats in their cages ran and skittered and squeaked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny watched as the fox pretended to drink as much of the barley wine as the rat captains. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She was holding Cinnamon the rat, dangling by its tail over the railing, nothing but space between it and the first floor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was being carried in the forepaws of the largest black rat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

‘Absolutely delightful. A mouse is going to kill a rat. Oh, all of this is much better than I anticipated. I love it when mice come to the dungeon. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You don’t bring me along, I’ll rat you out to Dad and Mom,” my sister declared. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I would have white mice riding on white rats, and the rats would gallop furiously round and round the stage. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their descendants today are the rats known as prairie dogs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rat turns away from us and sniffs again. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

That rat flew off and dove down a storm drain. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plainly exposed were two holes—simple, round rat holes. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the time being, though, I revel in the splendor of my accommodations, amazed that they cost $5.05 less, on a daily basis, than what I was paying for that rat hole in Clearview. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilbur tried not to think about what the rat had just said. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

If a rat finds something new to eat, it will nibble a very tiny bit and wait to see what happens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It hit him and clanged on the floor, but instead of fleeing, the rat hissed at us, as if we were the intruders. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How would I know? Maybe he liked rats.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The FBI describes him as a "dirty rat" and a "snappy dresser." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“You can eat rats for all I care!” she roared. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her dragons had grown too large to be content with rats and cats and dogs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of the picture was Ron, tall and gangling, with his pet rat, Scabbers, on his shoulder and his arm around his little sister, Ginny. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“In your case,” said O’Brien, “the worst thing in the world happens to be rats.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Until then, they would go back home to the rats and roaches. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Every one of them—small mice and big rats and the opossum. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the same way, a rat civilization would probably never have built skyscrapers, since rats prefer to live underground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mother temporarily gave up her hairpieces, a crimped false fringe and a rolled horsehair rat, platforms on which she daily constructed an elaborate mountain of her own hair. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Because when Lord Ganesha travels, he travels atop a rat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor froze every time a pebble moved beneath his foot, thinking he had triggered another rat assault. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rats, for some reason, had got on the shelf. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit tight,” said a young rat, from the straw close beside him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dared not stand up, or crawl back towards the light under the door, now, because of what there might be in the shed, rats, or moths, or a bat in the ceiling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Otherwise it was a lonely kingdom of rabbits, water birds and water rats. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A rat armorer set the war helmet firmly upon Cluny’s head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t just run away and leave them to face the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His rescue had happened just in time for him to save the Princess Pea from the terrible fate that the rat had planned for her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I would open the car door and all the animals would tumble out—except Nanky-Poo, who stayed in the car, and the rat and the hedgehog, who stayed at home. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish that you would take it. Otherwise, the rats will storm us en masse.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can use my phone light to scare away rats and guide the way. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Around a stump, over a mound of leaves, past a cedar tree—there were the saplings, and there lay the rat, still on his side. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rat shrieked and stumbled backward, right into Henry’s sword. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t prepared for the mass of black shirts coming at him in a crazy blur, like hungry rats jumping over each other’s backs to get to a speck of food. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron had taken the loss of his rat very hard indeed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were at the age when a rat’s muzzle grows blunt and fierce and his fur brown instead of gray. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The fox and the rat stood looking at each other, their thoughts running on parallel lines. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nine rats now manned each rope; two stayed behind, watching the rollers. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neither did the wild turkeys or the pack rats or the little big-eared ringtail cats. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a rat who doesn’t think I lead my horde. Cluny the Scourge sees and hears all. Watch now, and let this be a lesson to anyone that dares doubt me.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She told him an entire army—several hundred rats, at least—had invaded the land of the spiders. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai saw with horror that a chunk had been ripped out by the rat’s teeth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the rat reeled away clutching at his throat, Matthias freed the sword from the door. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He’d offer to scrub the decks, carry out the dead rats—anything! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

From some rat screams that came after that, he guessed Luxa, Aurora, and Ripred had gone into action to cover him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Last night I could hardly enjoy thinking about those rats flying off the stage for worrying about her crying. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When they approached the entrance again, Mrs. Frisby saw that Brutus stood at his post as before, but that another rat had joined him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped onto Ares’s back and the bats took off, leaving the bowl and a pack of cursing rats behind. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But if so, where were all the other rats? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile all three men, holding their nets low, ran across the stubble toward the parade of rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The woman ignored him and looked at the broken and empty cake box on the bar, saying, “Somebody’s been having a picnic in here. Goddammit. I already told you people about ants and rats.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other rats laughed, but not the king who whipped his tail out from under Henry and slashed poor Gox in half. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bob heard from a rat, a reliable sort, that they tossed Stella’s body into a garbage truck. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Remember in 1284 when the Pied Piper of Hamelin who, when the king refused to pay him for ridding the town of rats, turned the irresistible music of his pipe toward the children? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now Zippernose was nibbling like a rat on a slice of bread. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basil ran rings round them, keeping up a steady stream of insults and adding to the rats’ bad temper. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nobody was sure if he was rat or weasel, or even a bit of both. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Do not flatter yourself you have yet fought a rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If somebody agreed to rat on him, would that help?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I nearly stepped on two rats gnawing and froze. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he thought I was going to rat on Stick...there was no way. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were now three rat officers on the list of the dead. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

These feelings are ever there, like a rat gnawing at the edges of my spirit. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the entranceway, looking at her with dark, unblinking eyes, stood the biggest rat she had ever seen. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wretched rat soldier lay shaking on the churchyard path. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She called them flying rats and said one got caught in her hair once and went crazy clawing at her scalp. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, it’s a deal,” said the rat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Take them to the rats, then. It will give you no time,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I begin to find reason in this, as the priest said when he discovered the dead rat under the altar. How is it your hand is so practiced, friend? Someone has taught you well.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Our streets will stink of rotting litter. We’ll be overrun with rats.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then at the ranch house he baited a rat trap with stale cheese and set it where Doubletree Mutt, that good big dog, would get his nose snapped. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now another rat spoke up, a rat named Sullivan. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Perchance later you'll tell me how a nine-year-old girl the size of a wet rat managed to disarm you with a broom handle and throw your sword in the river." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Frantic tadpoles zigzagged away from our shadows; some good-sized creature splashed into the water upstream from us, an otter, maybe, or a river rat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There also would be quarters for John Lawrence’s “rat colony,” Hanson reported. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I thought: Could rats weave fish nets or make fish hooks? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just yesterday they had considered trading him and Boots to the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seizing his chance, the rat dodged nimbly into the open, and battered madly at Matthias’s upheld shield until he was forced to drop it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He must go to the rats. Immediately. Members of the council, I will now ask you to vote. Those in favor of Despereaux being sent to the dungeon, say ‘aye.’” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“A rat, perhaps, or pheasant chicks. Lucky for us it had killed, otherwise it might have been quicker. Still, fortunately we did the right thing. We really came out of it very well,” said Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tasty rats” is what Gramps calls them when he grills up venison steaks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had been given to understand that those castles were ruins. Dismal places, bleak and cold, hardly more than heaps of rubble. At Eastwatch we heard talk of rats and spiders.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, we learned to recognize the shapes easily enough, and when I saw the rat picture I knew straight away what symbols would appear beneath it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Being a rat, he immediately began to nibble at the rope. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Dinnertime for the daraja rat,” the first one said, holding out the bowl. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Henry had decided to stand with the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I even learned that when the photograph showed not one but several rats, a fourth shape would appear under it—a snaky line—and the sound with that one was “ess—ess—ess.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A hot, violent force tore through my body, shaking me like a wet rat. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grim comes inside and for once he doesn't tell me what a rat hole I'm living in, or how it smells like a locker room because I forgot to put my socks in the hamper. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was downright ratted with knots because I hadn’t even brushed it once since we got out of the water yesterday, when we found the dead man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I got a broom and tried to hit the rat with the handle, but it dodged me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if there was a rat down there? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This whole thing was really bothering me, so I said to Joey, “Hey, we ratted those guys out.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beautiful old church was rank with the heavy odor of rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And then she said, “There is a rat in my soup. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The little canal rat had managed to make it to the Ice Court after all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Silent Sam acted as his eyes, propelling him into each fresh bunch of rats with a long stick. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Standing boldly on the backboard of the hay cart was the biggest, fiercest, most evil-looking rat that ever slunk out of a nightmare! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A rat ventured a few steps out of a hole in a corner of the shack. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A white rat became the coachman, and six lizards were transformed into footmen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several seconds of silence followed, then there was a crash, accompanied by screams of pain and shock from the rats packed into the ditch below. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Because the headline doesn’t really fit the facts. You don’t call a bunch of dead rats mechanized just because you find them on a shelf near a motor.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stabbed at the earth with his tiny dagger, imagining that rats were popping up from make-believe tunnels. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Its snout was long, like that of a rat, its eyes covered in a milky-white film. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And thirteen mice, ashamed for Lester, looked away Reader, can you imagine your own father not voting against your being sent to a dungeon full of rats? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rat made as if to do so, then suddenly lunged at Brother George, only to be sent sprawling by a blow from Brother Rufus’s staff. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A fierce kick in the ribs and a swift chop to the claw sent the rat and the cutlass in opposite directions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the house was stained to its very foundation and that smell of something long dead and dried would always cling to the rooms and the rustle of rats would always come from the ceiling. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder, Like a rat did Toño on his journey eat garbage also? Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ron yelled, trying to force the rat back into his front pocket, but Scabbers was fighting too hard; Ron swayed and overbalanced, and Harry caught him and pushed him back down to the bed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And the rat led him deeper and deeper into the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Not to mention all the people and rats who might get sick or die from eating Finkles,” I added. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta’s. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure. All I need to do is get to love mathematics and rats. Are you coming over this Saturday?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just as many of them as there were rats. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman, who lived next door, had seen the rat hanging upside down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I must,” said Aurora, clearly aware of the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most people don’t like rats, but they make good pets. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nestling between a rusty can and a broken bottle was the carcass of a rat. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Himmler looked like my uncle Shepsel. My uncle Shepsel looked like a chicken.... “You want to know what rat tastes like? Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Together the rats crashed into a prickly bush, kicking, biting and pummeling each other. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When Shin caught rats in the factory, Park insisted on patience. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It is hard to imagine what any of us would do in the caves of the rats,” said Vikus gently. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor would never in a million years have believed Henry to be a spy for the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still it was interesting to us that for a while, at least, the rats had been ahead. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor had just begun lessons at school when his dad had dropped out of sight and become a prisoner of the rats who probably hated music. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

More by accident than design, Brother Rufus spun around and sent the scalding contents of his mug splashing full into the rat’s eyes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The stink from the lavatory and the stable attracts rats and we have to chase them with our new dog, Lucky. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Why would I paint a rat on my grandfather’s shoulder?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He went upstairs, fed the rats, and put some of his best records and his microscopes in the back room. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scientific facts released by the Food and Drug Administration clearly indicate the carcinogenic nature of aminotriazole in laboratory rats. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His dad imprisoned by rats, his mom crying, the dangers of taking Boots on this unknown voyage, and his own fear at the pillar. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally 1 waggled my fingers at the rat and mouthed the words “Hi, Cinnamon,” although they couldn’t hear me on the other side of the glass. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

"Ha' you any rats, mice, polecats, or weasels, or any old cows sick o' the measles?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took another tack, “I don’t want to go with that rat,” said Gregor, almost pleading. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You asked why the rats hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he could have got away from it by creeping into a rat’s hole, he would have done so. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was only a cane rat watching the fire with glittering black eyes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were both kinder as children, but when the rats took their parents, they changed.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I go quickly down the steps, a rat scrambling out of my way, thinking how good it would feel to drive a tank through the ghetto fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The rats are coming for you, you see. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Suds,” he said, “you’re in fourth grade now. That makes you a rat. Stop fighting it. It’s nature’s way.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Beady-eyed rats scurried along the vine, gnawing at it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. I want to work with people, not with rats and mazes. I talked to Appleman about it. He suggested I go into clinical psychology.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

What I had once thought were rats on the ship’s deck are not rats at all. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, be-tween himself and the rats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Since she had not told them about Dragon and the sleeping powder, she hoped that perhaps they would decide she had, for some reason, stayed with the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, great, man. Do you have to smell like a rat too?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look like a rat, or a squirrel, or even like a chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She leaped clear of the grass, bit through the rat’s neck, then dropped it to the ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Girl would rat out Jesus to the Romans. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“The hardest lesson for a soldier to learn is to obey orders he believes are wrong,” said the rat philosophically. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was about twenty minutes before the first rat disappeared into the bush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ron’s magic wand was lying on top of a fish tank full of frog spawn on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was snoozing in a patch of sun. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The rats, which had been troublesome that winter, were also said to be in league with Snowball. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then the steel mills and factories closed and everybody left, like rats. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A dead rat, most like," I said, and quickly turned away. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of the rats was unbearable, even if they had just been about to kill him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama believed you had to be nice even to a rat if it was a guest in your home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The rat was still snoozing on Ron’s lap. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Gregor saw the bodies of rats, humans, roaches, spiders, bats, and other creatures he didn’t even know lived in the Underland, like mice and butterflies. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rat returned, dragging the key behind it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The women are looking at him with horror, as if he’s a half-dead rat dragging itself across a kitchen floor. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately. I acted a fool. Supreme’s eating it up though. The record exec, too. They think it’s great that people think I’m a ‘ratchet hood rat.’ On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As a result of overeating, Templeton grew bigger and fatter than any rat you ever saw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Our dog, Tinkle, the part-Jack Russell terrier who had followed Brian home one day, caught the rat in his jaws and banged it on the floor until it was dead. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gaw, I hope you don't want to learn to catch rats first. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

A group of children was roasting two rats around a fire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Luckily, we don’t have to use the rat method for solving the omnivore’s dilemma. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The garrulous ferret showed the rats that he possessed a sound knowledge of the principles of fulcrum and leverage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Our Lord Nemmerle has his raven, and songs say the Red Mage of Ark led a wild boar on a gold chain. But I never heard of any sorcerer keeping a rat in his hood!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And because the rat fell into the queen’s soup, the queen died, you can see, can’t you, how everything is related to everything else? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The noise and movement began to die down eventually; I supposed the rats in the square had all either been caught or had escaped. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But as they approached the parade it vanished; the rats, their purpose accomplished, melted into the misty woods, and this time they did not reappear. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would tell them simply that as the owl had suggested, she had gone to the rats and asked for help. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was in an alley just behind Capricorn’s yard, surrounded by empty houses inhabited only by cats and rats. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“What makes the roaches think they can believe the rats?” asked Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For I would see once more the blue spots on the china, the spun webs on the little masts of those model ships, and the rat holes on the sofa-bed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Boots and I are going with the rat. Who else is in?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder he had looked like a rat from above. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So’s Scabbers’s rat tonic,” said Ron, throwing things out of his trunk to look. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Hurling the Abbot’s chair at his adversary, the rat seized an iron spike. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Okay, he also had one amazing rat on his side. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I never do those things if I can avoid them,” replied the rat, sourly. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We had rats in the building last summer. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The two rats passed through a bristling forest of staves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was lifted from the ground along with three other rats, and the net closed around us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rats were fighting; they were trying to get at each other through the partition. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Mom, I know now. Something else. When I was being a rat, I thought I was having a great time. But I wasn’t. I was having a rotten time.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roaches were within ten feet of the bank when the rats caught up with them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why pick on a small mouse? Surely a big strong rat like you can deal with an old badger? Come on, try me for size.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I said white rats like the ones my teacher had, Harry and Hermione, were very clean animals. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Jaja did not wait for their questions; he told them he had used rat poison, that he put it in Papa’s tea. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with all types of fur, shrew, mouse, vole, even rat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But even in his death throes the rat was lethal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor didn’t see any rats around, but who knew what else might be down here looking for a meal. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They soared with her out over the countryside, learning to catch rats, mice, and pigeons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

One or two of the rats were a bit slow off the mark, but not as slow as Colin Vole and his mother, who were roughly grabbed by the faster sentries. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“How did you two rats get in here?” the manager barked. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Every now and then Basil would pause and strike his “Noble Stag” attitude, letting the rats get to within a whisker of him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I was trying to be a good rat.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the decapitated rat, a smug expression on its face, was the black cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Although kestrels seldom prey on anything bigger than a rat, they will sometimes attack young rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew there were true dungeons down in the castle cellars—oubliettes and torture chambers and dank pits where huge black rats scrabbled in the darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I am a rat, but I will have something beautiful. I will have a crown of my own. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The workers trap rats when they don’t satisfy me enough to get fed. Some of the grass roots are said to be tasty. I wouldn’t know.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I threw sticks at the bandicoot, the nasty rat that lived under the house, to keep it from getting our food. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I put the rat down, he scooted under the tailpipe and out of sight on the other side of the car. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Gregor thought they would do what was best for their species, and the rats were probably the stronger ally. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors had it that someone had ratted them out, and Takumi seemed intent on finding out who—intent enough, anyway, to shout about it with his mouth jam-packed with bufriedo. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Less hard to believe than some of the things we’ve heard in the last two hours. Perhaps the mongooses were already aboard the lifeboat, like the rat you mentioned.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Gregor, my wife fears the spinners may pass on our whereabouts to the rats. She advises that we escape with all speed.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us got up and split and left Brunner and the rat in the hooch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, the alleyways became a stinking cesspool, swarming with flies the size of rats, and rats the size of cats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what would the rats want with such a long piece of wire? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on my lunch, thinking, Maybe you actually got away with ratting out these guys. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But would killing the rat really make the darkness go away? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had a friend who got bit by a rat once. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They squeeze under the door, a mass of rats escaping a flood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At this hour, no people were around the pigpen, so the rat and the spider and the pig were by themselves. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“All the rats in the Dreadfort belong to my lord father. How dare you make a meal of one without my leave.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You, my young friend, are a rat. Exactly. Yes. Evil. Prisoners. Rats. Suffering. It all fits together so neatly, so sweetly Oh, it is a lovely world, a lovely, dark world. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was an abandoned warehouse inside, a dark, dank sort of place where rats scuttled. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid of cancer and rats and Doberman pinschers.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Images of bloodred rivers, his dad surrounded by rats, and Boots falling into bottomless caverns had woven in and out of his dreams all night long. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After issuing orders to his remaining captains, Cluny, accompanied by a score of assorted rats, weasels, stoats and ferrets, crept off along the course of the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Only the tail end of a marsh rat held any meat at all. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cane rat came apart in shreds of air. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with so much space, they could retreat endlessly and make the rats follow them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Catching and roasting rats became a passion for Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I left then as he was brushing floor dirt from the rat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The rat waltzed happily from room to room until he found himself at the door to the banquet hall. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

When they felt that, the rats would scramble out the back exit, past the sealed-off cave, emerge as noisily as possible in the blackberry bramble—indeed, show themselves—and dash off into the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

At home we dared not open the back window adjoining an alleyway, for fear of being overcome by the stench, or worse, being invaded by the giant flies and rats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t sure it would help to report them to the cops, because no one likes a rat. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark was almost to the door of the barracks when he heard a strange scratching noise above him, like rats scurrying across the panels of the ceiling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Quite the contrary, the marketplace was a perfect place for playing, and so we did, the young rats at least, as soon as we had finished eating. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the time they stood there, the steady procession of rats continued. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not a thing that I can do myself. You must go to the rats.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty rats, the leader still holding Tick in its teeth, plunged into the river below. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at Ripred, and the rat gave him a slow wink. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That is not good news! That was not in the plan! That means there are twenty-three people who the Eagle can eliminate as suspects. Twenty-three people who might figure out it was us and rat!” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In a moment he saw the rat’s sharp nose poke out from underneath the wooden trough. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The princess cried, “Oh no, rat, please. Don’t hurt him. He is my friend.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“How do you expect to find a rat in the dark?” snapped Hermione. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But I couldn't stomach crawling back into that cramped, smelly rat's nest. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the waves beat under the piles and he could hear the scampering of white rats against the wire. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was angry that Rik had ratted us out right from the beginning. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I’ve got an antidote on call.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“They could be shipboard pests, like rats. Mongooses are com­mon in India.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet Marisol kicks her big fat behind out and she has to sneak back in here like a sewer rat,” Delia told Velia, flopping down next to her twin on the bed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The rats had finished digging the new hole, and all twenty of them were working near the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was smart, really, to rat on one of her friends, because no one ever thinks to blame the friends. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even farther in, the silence was broken by a cacophony of strange sounds—the skittering of rats; hissing steam; the hollow, recurring tap of pipes, like the desperate scratching of a premature burial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even here, in the belly of an old oil tanker, there were rats, but these ones had died a long time ago. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop that, ” boomed a voice, and a great hand came out of the darkness and picked the rat up by his tail and held him suspended upside down. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At the sight of the rat Warlord, he released the rope and scuttled underneath the stairs, where he hid trembling. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rats here are particularly repulsive, they are so fat—the kind we all call corpse-rats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Ripred could not distinguish the smell of rats in a place reeking of rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no.. Creepy is like spiders and rats and, you know, things that make chills run down your spine. You’re just....difficult,” said Gregor, trying to be honest but not flat-out rude. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It stood dark and desolate behind the remains of a collapsed sept where only rats had come to pray for near three hundred years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some people said it contained spells for turning salt into gold and men into rats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I caught lizards on the rail fences, rats in the com crib, and frogs in the little creek that ran through the fields. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin’s pale, but her cheeks are pink—I assume from fighting the giant rat in the sink. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

While the rat and the spider and the little girl watched, Wilbur climbed again to the top of the manure pile, full of energy and hope. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“No, but the rats would. We need our eyes to fight, they do not,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, I’m going to teach you about rats. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He should have run into his dad’s arms, but he suddenly felt afraid of this stranger dressed in rat skins who was supposed to be his father. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he was pretty sure that every able-bodied rat was chasing after him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee said that the mosquitoes ran patrols for the rats and afterward they split up their catch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smells fishy, they used to say; or, I smell a rat. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thought raced like a rat new caught in a wire trap. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rats fanned out quickly and circled the questers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The jubilatory sounds died away to an eerie silence as the rats toiled raggedly off down the road, raising a column of dust in the early dawn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kate had trapped him like a rat—caught him with his pants down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Those who don’t die of the fever are beginning to starve. You’ve seen the rats?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeon cote was noisy, the rat cages were correctly smelly, but all were somehow wrong. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Except, instead of roosters or rats, the entertainment of the night appeared to be human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The roaches had debated trading Overlanders to the rats even when they knew the rats would eat them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a rat in this town who’s been feeding information to Burton and Devlin and I say it’s high time we found out who it is.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"There are worse things than spiders and rats," he whispered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Let me see, ” said the other rats, pushing and shoving. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh dearie me. Did you hear that, m’dear? They must be living in our home at St. Ninian’s Church. Oh, whatever shall we do? Our dear little home, full of dreadful rats.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One of the rats had gotten a claw into him just as he was taking off. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was his turf, the city, and he knew more places to hide than a rat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young mouse could not afford to wait around for the rat to regain his senses. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“As you should be. You wear the exact same utility pants every day. You are a fae, for rat’s sake. Have some dignity!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The powerful tail whipped expertly out, slashing across the rat’s face with its poisoned metal war barb. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A case is mentioned in the literature of a stoat and a rat living in a companion relationship, while other rats presented to the stoat were devoured by it in the typical way of stoats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think I am, a messenger boy?” grumbled the rat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

And I know we didn’t look bold when the rats erupted from Doug Swieteck’s coat with a full scale of screeches. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He scrambled quickly down the bank and found the rat nosing in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’d you go and say that for? Quit talking about rats.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a great apartment— on the top floor with rats running through it—but she’s done her best to make it a home. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am that is! Martin, Matthias, call me what you will. It was long ago written that you and I would meet, rat.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You say that Mr. Fitzgibbon said six or seven rats. Did he ever say which number it really was?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My hair was a rat's nest It was singed at the edges like Hephaestus’s beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That rat is physically tougher than we could ever imagine. It is only a matter of time until he recovers sufficiently to attack us again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rat had been in tons of wars. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the cage with the rats was not two meters away from him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It is alive! I think it is a rat!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And as Mig went singing down the stairs of the dungeon, there appeared from the shadows a rat wrapped in a cloak of red and wearing a spoon on his head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

His skin looked grubby, almost like Scabbers’s fur, and something of the rat lingered around his pointed nose and his very small, watery eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the corner of a separate cage a mother rat lay over her litter of blind naked children and let them suckle and the mother stared about nervously and fiercely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty rats strained on the cords, and the block rose an inch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know exactly who is about to roll down a hill or fall off a slide or get scared by a fake rat and start screaming. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They had just passed one that had been decomposing in front of a pizza place for a week now, its flesh eaten away by rats. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They said in horror: ‘It’s all about rats!’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And the white rats scampered and scrambled in their cages. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron stuffed the trembling rat back into his pocket and straightened up, massaging his head. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Try as they would, the rats had not been able to remove a set of wheels and an axle from it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In a second, Bristle’s head reappeared, and in her jaws was a wood rat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We want to know if you ate rats in China and what they tasted like.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we had was crackers out of the barrel and rat cheese off the wheel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The server was caught and she may have ratted out Stu, at least enough to cast some suspicion on him, thus accounting for his pissy behavior. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tribesman's mouth drops open, and the slaver regards me as if I'm a rat who has begun juggling. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The two rats stumbled off through the woods in different directions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I could see something was wrong, and whatever it was, was a whole lot bigger than having your friend rat on you to your teacher. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rats were bigger than Mrs. Frisby, and could be, when necessary, dangerous fighters, but they were no match for Dragon. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You and every other bony street rat in this city. You can hit him up for a handout some other night. Now, scram!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But right now he could no more get through the fifty-foot wall of cockroaches to fight the rats than the rats could get to him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That”—he flicked it and it swung from its leg between my fingers—“is a rat.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The young woman’s free, affectionate, adventurous personality fascinated him, and her appearance of a disguised rat aroused in him a tortured eagerness to protect her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here another ten rats stood, baffled, in a semicircle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Harry forced a laugh, went to give Ron the rat tonic, then shut himself in his room and lay down on his bed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As they entered some of the rats looked up, some waved and smiled, but all quickly turned back to the work they were doing, as if they were in a hurry. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They bred dogs for foxhunting, for duck hunting, for bringing down bulls, and for squeezing into tight places to catch rats and other vermin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even caged rats are given water bottles and food pellets. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Have you got a rat’s point of view?” asked Anthony. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Did one of the little girls get bitten by a rat? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The live mouse and a rat or two scrambled out into the cold night with us as Pink flew off in his direction and me in mine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And so the Eagle let her go, because he needs rats to do his job. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The badger shouted mockingly, “Don’t forget to call again, rat. I’d be delighted to see you. We’ve got some unfinished business that I’m looking forward to settling. Just you and me, Redtooth!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“A rat killed a blackbird out at your place?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding there, the rat faced backward, its tiny triangular face peeping out of her sand-colored hair. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The Rusties had been stuck down in these streets like a horde of rats trapped in a burning maze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I sure was glad he got his health back in time for my rat joke. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As if this sight wasn’t horrific enough, the water churned as enormous piranha-like fish surfaced and fed on the screaming rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The twelve sentry rats were locked in the hut they had been set to guard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And if a rat does not want to be found, reader, he will not be found. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

For a moment, he felt relieved to have escaped the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rats scampered up him, burrowing into his pockets, into his shirt, up his trouser legs, down his neck. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I’m not a liar and I’m not a rat. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loves to corner the rats and then we smash them to bits with rocks or sticks or stab them with the hay fork in the stable. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They know the rats are on the march. This may sway them in our direction.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You has to eat this, sir!” squeaked the elf, and he put his hand in the pocket of his shorts and drew out a ball of what looked like slimy, grayish-green rat tails. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All was quiet, save for the snores of my sister Florah—three years old—huddled alongside me, under the same blanket, and the squeaks of rats in the cupboard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summertime, when children were sent to the fields to help plant and weed, was peak season for rats and field mice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought about the orphanage in Karteh-Seh, thought about the rat that had scurried between my feet in Zaman's office. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Making soup illegal, outlawing rats, these things soothed the poor kings heart. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He refused to allow Shin to eat them until they’d found a furnace or flame where a rat could be spread out on the head of a shovel and cooked properly. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When it came to the end of the stairs, it rolled and rolled, until finally, lazily, it came to a stop right at the gnarled paw of a rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The terrified animal did not wait for the rat to bite. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Anyone on the Island she might go to for pills or a diaphragm would know who she is and would surely rat on her to the family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We did not have any mousetraps or rat poison in the house, and my mother had not been up to anything suspicious during the night. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what a rat brings his lunch in.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an empty lot full of garbage, with rats scampering among the refuse. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest, blackest of the rats shook its head. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I was glad enough for the bandicoot’s company, but I did not think I wanted to spend my life sweeping goose droppings from the courtyard and talking to a rat. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he even had to save the Underland from the rats, he didn’t know. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My sister, the basement mole rat, was smarter than me? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't want to be a "rat" and renounce his German citizenship in a time of war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t do that again. I thought you goats were rat food.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I read about that in Introduction to Psychology; that, and the chapter on caged rats who’d give themselves electric shocks for something to do. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree rats don’t seem to have any fear of humans, so I take down three easily. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor felt as if rat eyes must be burning at them from every crevice. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He paused at a corner and saw a big black rat leaping over the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing so far had alarmed me as much as the sight of a black dog, boils riding its back like a second spine, a rat as big as Mouse clenched in its teeth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mice and rats and dogs have burrowed these tunnels through the dried clay, searching for food scraps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew I would never rat out Sapo or Bodega. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And it was in this way that Despereaux became the only mouse sent to the dungeon whom the rats did not reduce to a pile of bones and a piece of red thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Strangely, it also emerged that he had known the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rats real plan was, in a way, more simple and more terrible. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Like all grates in the Quarter, it leads down into the Serra’s catacombs: home to skeletons, ghosts, rats, thieves...and possibly the Scholars’ Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the Ice Court had really big rats. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tjaden regrets that we wasted the gnawed pieces of bread on the rats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Doubtless some rat had the key, but there was no time for that. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“No. Hear you the rats, hear you?” repeated Temp. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Constance’s reply was harsh and unafraid, “Then speak your piece and begone, rats.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The other employees watch me like I’m a rat, like my mother has sent me to the basement to spy on them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose eighth graders thought I was a rat eater? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it was that gave them intense pleasure, but I am guessing it is some kind of rat or mouse nip. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The train would go by, and we’d wake up and just start sniffing that popcorn like a rat smells cheese. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rats, looking enormous by comparison, remained a respectful distance away from her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick asks a lot of questions about the rodent, which we decide to call a tree rat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here he was fighting off a dozen rats, trying to rescue the Vole family, while Basil was dusting out his den! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With two rats flanking him, the Father Abbot stepped forward in a slow, dignified manner. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I remembered the time a rat had died inside our apartment wall in New York in the middle of the summer. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Both rats took off their armor and placed it in a pile on the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Marigold hadn’t planned on ratting out her brother, but her mother had to know. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The inmate being ratted out was difficult and disrespectful, so I didn’t mind passing the tip along to a sergeant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let the mice fight the rats and the rats fight the mice; what did he care? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The thing was already ten feet away by the time he realized it wasn’t a rat at all—it was more like a lizard, with at least six legs scuttling the long silver torso along. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of rats scurrying away into the corners. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then the pyramid fell apart, and the rats scampered, fast and black, toward the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Neither will I,” said the rat, picking his teeth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There could be no doubt about it, that rat was definitely Cluny the Scourge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cockroaches had been freaky, the bats intimidating, but these rats were purely terrifying. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In no time at all I cleaned out the rats. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And why should you care if a bunch of canal rats blow each other to bits in pursuit of a prize?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The face of a monstrous rat broke into a smile. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bullying rats pushed and harried everyone out into the open where they made them sit on the grass. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He got it, kneeled down, and shot the rat. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the undergrowth a rat snake rubbed itself against a glistening stone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked the rat crews like a slave driver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But he has to know that if anyone hears a word about this, it’s just as bad as ratting on Aunt Pooh. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A rat pushed him heavily to the ground. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most of the books were about people; we tried to find some about rats, but there wasn’t much. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It made her think of rot—of old garbage left out in the sun, buzzing with flies, crawling with rats. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was the rat who had fallen in her mother’s soup. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Climbing down from the loft, we all went and looked at the three big stinking rats, floating in the barrel amongst the ears of corn that had been the bait. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you don’t want a replacement, you can try this rat tonic,” said the witch, reaching under the counter and bringing out a small red bottle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They never played lord of the crossing again, but they played other games—monsters and maidens, rats and cats, come-into-my-castle, all sorts of things. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rats were satisfied that both foxes were dead, and if they were not, well, who was going to climb down through all of those stinging nettles into the slippery ooze to find out? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If I can catch one, I’ll get him to rat out the other. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Together they kept the rabbits and groundhogs from eating the farmers’ crops and the rats from eating the corn stored in cribs and bins. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Look at you, like a garbage rat. You hooked all right. But you and me can beat it." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not belong in that world, you are a rat. A rat. Say it with me. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And terrible punishments were promised him, such as being locked up in the cellar with the rats for a week, if he even so much as dared to climb over the fence. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I also like cheetahs and cats and dogs and snakes and rats and manatees. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Cornflower was only picking up one word in three, but by the fierce scowl on Foremole’s face, she was certain that the rats would not find it a pleasant experience being given “owd ’arry.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But they knew by my wide grin that in my mind I was seeing stinking dead rats on Aunt Loma’s stage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The clerk looked so lonely, I bought a rubber rat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A rat scuttled from the shadows, dragging a glistening chunk of meat or viscera. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Down in the rats’ home, in the artificial light, it was hard to tell the passage of time, and she had been so engrossed in Nicodemus’s story that she had not glanced at the clock. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord! Yes, I can smell it, too. Is it a rat? Did something die? It’s definitely in the house.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And the dark became a huge rat smiling a smile that was evil and sharp. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She pointed a finger the size of a salami at the child's head and shouted, "You look like a rat with a tail coming out of its head!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That voice, the loudest voice that Despereaux had ever heard, could only, he assumed, belong to the world’s largest rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s unfair to rats. A law has to be fair to everybody.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“How can it be about father and the rats?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hell, there was no one around, just rats and corpses. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The slushed walls gradually peeled, inviting bats, rats and other nightly creatures to come live with us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rabbit jumped up, but so did a wood rat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The pigeons have taken off and the rat has disappeared once more. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The horse himself is frightened by the rats and we have to be careful when he rears up. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Straining and pushing, the rat soldiers trundled the tall contraption from its woodland hiding place. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was brightly lit with electric bulbs—here the large sized ones, strung unshaded—and beneath them were rats at work everywhere. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night, the pantry and supply closet were overrun with rats. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That side of meat had been a big one, but now there wasn’t enough meat left on the rind to interest a pack rat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat, reader, invited himself to the party. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The virus may have entered the cotton factory by some unknown route—perhaps in insects trapped in the cotton fibers, for example, or in rats that lived in the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To the rats? But I don’t know any rats. They have nothing to do with me.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No one who spends years with the rats can expect to be unchanged,” said Solovet gently. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why for us?” asked one of the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Practice tunnels were being dug willy-nilly owing to the lack of communication between rats and other species. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Please gods, he isn’t coming for me, he prayed, tearing off one of the rat’s legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s no telling how far down it goes,” the captain says, the left side of his mustache twitching like the tail of a rat. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But now, standing before Dorian Havilliard as little more than a gutter rat! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I screamed: “Okay, you want a rat, you got a rat!” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had lasted out well; the rats had not breached the wall in any way. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hildy came along in a mud-colored brown suit and a black sailor skewered on to her ratted brassy pompadour with an evil-looking hatpin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the kapo had pushed me back among my people I turned to look at the Pole who had ratted me out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was looking for pigeons and rats but actually was not very hungry. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“What have we here?” said the one-eared rat to the spool of thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But in general, during the months that followed, two things were happening: First, we were learning more than any rats ever had before, and were becoming more intelligent than any rats had ever been. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

His teeth were as yellow and crooked as ever, and his hair was a rat’s nest. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think he might have actually seen a rat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see why they hate us so much,” said Gregory He thought of Shed’s burning eyes, his last words, “Overlander, we hunt you to the last rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to relieve another patrol, but who knew where anything was in this rat’s nest of a sector? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Fhew! I might a’ known a rat would make a nest under this trough. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the table, under a wooden bowl to protect it from hungry rats and cats alike, sits a perfect little goat cheese wrapped in basil leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The rats of Cluny’s horde had executed them with spears and tossed them there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Realm's got more kings than a castle's got rats." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Overlander,” he gurgled, “we hunt you to the last rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tend to think of rats leaving a ship. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the glossy rats in the cage, he looked especially woebegone. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They found themselves in a dimly lit area like the place Rita encountered the rat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He doubted that the universe was created to provide a home for human beings any more than a palace is built for rats to live in. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Even other rats are afraid to fight him.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the day we loaf about and make war on the rats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have peace with both humans and rats now. They do not want to unseat it.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it comes to the omnivore’s dilemma, each rat is on its own. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Of all horrors in the world—a rat!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

‘A rat is a rat is a rat. End of story. World without end. Amen. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rat picked up the cutlass and swung it, slashing wildly at his enemy’s thick fur. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At the camp of Cluny the Scourge, the rat army was girding itself up for war. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He and Boots could have been sold to the rats, and then what? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fangor plowed into Shed, and the rats landed in a heap. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were the things, a rat and a knife and a candle, that Mig carried with her as she climbed up, up, up the stairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And Templeton, the rat, crept stealthily along the wall and disappeared into a private tunnel that he had dug between the door and the trough in Wilbur’s yard. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The big rat laughed insanely and ran faster: on and on, past scenes of desolation and destruction wreaked by him, Cluny the Scourge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Imagine that at the same time the rat steps from the dungeon and into the castle, a mouse is being born upstairs, a mouse, reader, who is destined to meet the light-bedazzled rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“As he says, the little rat just woke up.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the rats escape and run into our house and into the coal hole under the stairs where it’s pitch dark and you can’t see them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There really are rats, he says, because of the food in the attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His boat was high on the beach, and the tunnel...well, he’d rather take his chances in the open than in the tunnel if he had to deal with the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Pea looked right directly at the rat and at the spoon on his head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Down in the cellar there are shelves and shelves of white rats and black mice, special ones that aren’t wild. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger laughed and approached the bed with the dangling rat, swinging it to and fro like a pendulum, enjoying his sister’s fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had been funny to see Red Rabbit moving speedily—for him—up the street, for like us he did not enjoy being around the rats much. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that snakes couldn’t help being snakes, and that Campbell, who could help being what he was, was something much lower than a snake or a rat—or even a blood-filled tick. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he catches mice and rats,” I suggested helpfully. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered that the rat had been useful in saving Charlotte’s life, and that Charlotte was trying to save his life. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s been eating rats,” said the second boy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were also classrooms on the fifth floor, as well as a psychology laboratory, which contained rats, mazes, screens, and a variety of instruments for the measuring of auditory and visual responses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Farther on the car whizzed past or over some kangaroo rats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before either of the friends could decide what to do, a rat appeared on the scene. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I stared down at Takumi’s twig sticking erect out of the mud and said, “I swear to God I won’t rat.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You mean the rat in my backpack when you know I’m scared of them? The mayo in my shampoo? What about stealing my lunch money?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “you can’t be a man without being a rat first.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked wistfully at that gaping black hole through which the rat had darted to safety. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around that time, probably because of all the garbage, a big, nasty- looking river rat took up residence at 93 Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen a rat with an acorn, but then again you don’t usually stumble on rats in nature. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Each time the phone rang, I was convinced it was Schultz, calling to rat me out to Mom and Dad. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I flashed to Pa saying, “Where’d you go after you cleaned the stalls, Nathaniel? Looks like a rat’s heaven in there.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rat scuttled across the floor and stopped again at the box and searched quickly for the hole; then it reared once more and bared long yellow fangs, piping shrilly, belly quivering. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A water rat scuttled away as the children felt their way I along the narrow passage. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sleight, sixty-five years old, is a professional river guide and desert rat with a Mormon upbringing and a reputation for insolence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy smoked. Our neighbors above us and next to us smoked. I had so many asthma attacks, it ain’t funny. We only kept canned goods in the cabinets ’cause of the rats and roaches. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She looked around for the rat, but it was gone, and the marble with it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“If you hadn't lied to us, there wouldn't have been anything to rat about,” Prosper replied. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, baloney! I can just imagine the ladies swimming with the rats biting their legs!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He dragged the rats into the river, and it quickly carried their bodies away. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, the rats are our friends. This is the other kind. Big black fellow, with his tail high.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“If a rat thing gets me, I hope you’ll beat it to death,” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They’d obtained over a hundred new recruits, mainly rats but with a good scattering of ferrets and weasels, and the odd stoat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All of these canal rats and slum dwellers had easily found their sea legs, used to hopping from boat to boat on the waterways of Ketterdam. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I pretend I’m a scientist, on the outside looking in, the way Ms. Keen describes her days watching rats get lost in mazes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And a good evening to you, Father Abbot. How goes the battle against the rats?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mam puts the boiled onion pot up on the mantelpiece for fear a mouse or rat might be at it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Why’n’t he just get a rat trap and put his head in it?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat's barbs had ripped her Kevlar as if it were tissue paper. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like a bunch of rats fleeing a fire, the rest of the passengers follow them, pushing and shoving and cursing until everyone is out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sela knew exactly how many rats, weasels, stoats and ferrets were able-bodied enough for combat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If the rats can truly extinguish our light, they extinguish our life as well,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a dining hall, it left much to be desired—it was dark, dirty, drafty, and hard to heat in winter, its cellars infested with rats, its massive wooden rafters worm-eaten and festooned with cobwebs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He said you asked him to dig up your house. Thieving rats!” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘But some good it will surely be, if the rats don’t get it. Come home now, though. It’s getting dark.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed at our jokes and teased us when we couldn’t comb through the knots in our ratted hair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I would not have known what they were, of course, for at that time neither I nor any of the other rats knew how to read. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a rat like Ripred could, but he was extraordinary under any conditions. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And who knew how many beach rats she’d drugged and collected into the mysteries of her church? Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rat stared at him with twitching whiskers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without realizing it, he'd put his hand on a large rat, which had bitten him in the arm. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Hamiltons at the well rig had finished their lunch of Liza’s bread and rat cheese and venomous coffee cooked in a can over the fire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, but that wasn't a rat—the animal's muzzle wasn't pointed enough. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rat poked his head out from under the trough. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Employees were running up and down the stairs like seasick rats and the President’s private guard were pushing furniture against the windows and distributing pistols to those who were closest to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But remember at the Siege of King’s Port they had to eat rats and boiled leather until King Targhaer’s brother broke the siege. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And later they had talked about how much the rats would pay to bargain with Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to the armed rats who guarded the sickroom. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The lead rat sprang forward and crushed Tick’s head in its jaws. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Brast your costard, have I? Well, it serves you right, for all your mischief. What are you up to, scuttling about behind the stage like a great rat?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mice may carry disease, and rats scare me, but today I don't think even they deserve to die. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“What’s men got to do with it? Before, you said it’s rats that don’t cry.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven winced at the mention of rat beard. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rats were hauling it laboriously through the grass, inching it along in the direction of a very large wild rosebush in the far corner of the yard. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the rats woke Cora with its teeth and when she settled herself, she crawled across the dirt of the platform in her search. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But if all rats were bad, who was this strange creature staring at him from across the fire, offering to be their guide? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He snapped the visor down and kicked aside the rat who had fixed the poison barb on his tail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We asked them why they were fighting this war, thinkin’ on slavery and all, and one fella said they was fightin’ for their ‘rats.’ The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, the rat Botticelli sat waiting, and when Despereaux stepped from the last stair onto the dungeon floor, Botticelli called out to him as if he were a long-lost friend. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her job was to open up the rat’s head and figure out what the nerve gas had done to the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give them a bit of time to get off the ground. I want plenty of rats to be high up before we make a move. Pass the word along.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She imagined him down below, a crumpled sack of bones in a rat’s skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ah, but you are cheating, you must say, 'I am a rat,’” said Botticelli, smiling his slow smile at Roscuro. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Could it be because he was running away from two rats who were trying to eat him?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The rats ran away, tails lashing, eyes blind with panic. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The patter of many rat feet came at them down the road. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then I thought, so if it wasn’t Auggie who ratted me out, who was it? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He turned to look at where his tail had been, and as he did, Despereaux drew his needle and placed the sharp tip of it right where the rats heart should be. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then they all got to yelling about foreigners, the army takeover, and somebody thrown in prison which if you ask me is at least a more favorable subject than rats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” I said, “now that I’m a fourth-grade rat, I’m supposed to go around dumping little kids off benches. Is that it?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to tell who was the more surprised, Matthias and his party or the rat sentries. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lyra lifted Pantalaimon close to her breast, and he became a black rat, whipping his tail around and around her wrist and glaring at Sir Charles with red eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was terrible in the cellar, all night long, all the cold, damp night long with the rats and lizards and bugs and wretched smells. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A rat watched them from a crumbled hole by a light; a scorpion danced from under their feet; a huge baboon spider squatted in a crack with its fangs resting on the edge. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Brave little Tick, who had flown into the face of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet away from her, two men were fighting over what looked like a dead rat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Though of course we both have our natural beauty, as the hippopotamus said to the rat.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I think I once mentioned,” said the cat, “that I don’t like rats at the best of times. It looked like you needed this one, however. I hope you don’t mind my getting involved.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“How come you were surprised when Ripred showed up? I mean, I don’t really know the prophecy, but you do. Didn’t you expect a rat?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That horrid thing has the wolves and the rats and his own kind to help him, so I suppose he isn’t above trying to use a respectable lunatic. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At one time rats had lived there, and they had pushed up the earth in some places so that it almost touched the beams. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sword cut across the rat’s chest as Ripred tore a deep gash along Henry’s arm. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, how nice of you, Mr. Hare. So glad you could join us,” he said sarcastically, as they beat off rats and hurried the Voles along. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The grey rats are not as chaste as they would have us believe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Folks even bring ’em up here in the hills and let ’em out, figure they can live on rats and rabbits. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat placed his foot on the weasel’s throat and began pressing down. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Crows flapped off an occasional jackrabbit carcass; a black-and-white shrike sat on a fence post with a dead kangaroo rat dangling from under its talons; cows lumbered moodily off the dirt path into the sagebrush. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got pushed by a wave into a jungle with man-eating rats,” Dallas said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She is fevered. She has caught some pestilence from the land of rats.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can imagine that twenty rats and two mice traveling in procession would cause some comment, and we did not want that. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Well, I mean, I was really a rat. You wouldn’t believe it.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoking, ruined villages, the broken pieces of brick in the street, the frozen corpses, the shattered walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the scurrying rats and lice: how can they live like that? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Incarcerated men would trap rats, poisonous spiders, and snakes they found inside the prison to pass the time and to keep safe. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I told him, “The only thing about you that’s turning rat is your brain.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat continued scrunching bits of sinew and meat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re above a waterfall in the Dead Land. A bunch of rats are trying to scale the wall. A lot of us are hurt and we’re totally lost,” he said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why they have to torture rats that are not in their houses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But—I know and you know, dear Frank, that...the rats swarm back and begin to gnaw at the same old spot, the moment the dog’s back is turned.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The rat, surprised out of a sound sleep, looked first dazed then disgusted. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nearby a boy of ten stood eating a rat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dead dogs, cats and rats cluttered the roadside, or floated starkly on the waters with blown distended bellies. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards, though, did not care if Shin and his friends ate rats, frogs, snakes, and insects. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The old man put his hat on, and the last rat was gone. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He held the match closer to Roscuros face, and a terrible smell of burnt whiskers rose up around the jailer and the rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

To save his own butt, I think to myself, but actually: Wow, he could have just called Mom and Dad at the Greenbrier Hotel, interrupting their anniversary vacation to rat me out. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow we got a hedgehog, and Sally contributed a white and black rat, rescued from the school lab during vacation. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want it to be an animal—a mouse or, skies, even a rat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"A dog doesn't need courage to chase off rats. They had me thirty to one, and not a man of them dared face me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In five days the populations of orangutans, zebras, hyenas, rats, flies and cockroaches had been wiped out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Poor Mango has been reduced to a rat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men’s ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had been talking about that place ever since George had brought the two-foot rat snake to school to show Mr. Landers—because they were studying reptiles! I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of years ago, he said, rats seemed to be ahead of all the other animals, seemed to be making a civilization of their own. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was big, and tough; an evil rat with ragged fur and curved, jagged teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Does she remember the rat that poked its head out in the alley and the look on Dr. Shabani's face when we saw her in the marathon? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Listen, rat, you don’t scare me! I’ll give you our answer. You get nothing! Now do you understand that?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, he must draw the rat further out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was mastering Creole “like a rat,” in the Haitian idiom, and he stopped to talk to peasants whenever he could, soaking up information. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There are good rats and bad rats, I told him. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The sentry rats had become tired of chasing Basil. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Scragg, wake up. It’s me, Cheesethief. Oh come on now, I’m sure you remember me? The stupid one, the rat whose job you were going to take?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You played that ratchet hood rat role. You know how much publicity you ’bout to get from this?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” I whispered, as if mice and rats and opossums and chipmunks could start up a conversation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t answer, as I’m still undecided as to whether I smell a rat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And with that the cat let the rat go. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Rats running electric motors that ran belts that ran small circular saws, lathes, drills, grindstones, and other tools Mrs. Frisby could not name; rats hammering, welding, cutting. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every day there were more dead, and the rats were getting larger and more daring. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Stop, you little rat!'' Victor bellowed after him. His voice boomed through the huge house so loudly that two maids came running across, the courtyard. “ The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The big rat’s voice was as foul and evil as his breath. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bigger took a piece of newspaper and gingerly lifted the rat by its tail and held it out at arm’s length. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow fangs snapped closed on his throat, but he shook off his old grey cousin as he would a rat, then charged after him, knocked him down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mig held the tray with the one small candle burning bright, and she listened as the rat went on, speaking directly to the wish in her heart. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I sang you a song about a rat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A rat scampered around in its steel prison. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plumpen cursed the fate that had put him and his family in the hands of the rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was painful to know that even if they survived the Nightbeast, even if they solved the task and avoided being toadified, their lives would still be worse than rats on a boat. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘Curiosity is killing the rat,’ the BFG said, and he turned away from the silly man. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while I think Haymitch might gamble with my life in the arena, I don’t think he’d rat me out to Coin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At last, after skirting carefully round some openings from which there was a distinct smell of rats, they halted in a kind of pit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, rat or no rat, your mom still loves you.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is she the one that put rat in ratification. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He is just under six feet tall, no gym rat, but he runs and is in shape. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But Papa,” she said, “he is not a rat. He’s a mouse. There’s a difference.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Also on board were two pigs purchased by McNeish for future pork roasts, as well as the rats and mice that stow away on any ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of eating,” shouted one of the rats, “give us the mousie!” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You scared your sister with that rat and she fainted'. Ain’t you got no sense at a//?” “Aw, I didn’t know she was that scary.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

By a stroke of luck he found an iron spike that had been thrown at Basil by one of the rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we found, near the bowl, a stiff, hairy rat with a distended belly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flash of blue-white light erupted from both wands; for a moment, Scabbers was frozen in midair, his small gray form twisting madly — Ron yelled — the rat fell and hit the floor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In science class, Mr. Z. told us about an experiment where they got this rat or mouse, and they put this rat or mouse on one side of a cage. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first I rejected the idea of Bigger battling a rat in his room; I was afraid that the rat would “hog” the scene. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Who wants to live forever?” sneered the rat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We knew that certain rats or mice went into certain cages, but we did not know what rut or mouse went into what cagc. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he shall not. We do not travel with rats.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stood in stolid silence as sniggering rats referred to them as “The Ringleaders.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

This was another rat that could not scurry off. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The rats will wish they had never invaded our house. This bag of Rotex will wipe them off the surface of the earth.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This rat was not just eating the sugar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was something to this rat business, after all. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That’s my hometown,’ he said.‘Don’t tell me the old rat’s nest is still there.’ The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This may come as a surprise to you, Van Eck, but we canal rats value our lives just as much as you do yours.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That morning there were two rats on sentry duty—one just inside the entrance to the rosebush, watching Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, another at the arch where Brutus had stood. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the bramble, half-hidden by a swirl of mist, a gray-brown shape, a rat, shaking dirt from his ears. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would never like the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I kept thinking about you inside the Osprey. Whether you would get used to it. Stop worrying about the rats.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the rat would not leave me; he presented himself in many attractive guises. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the cameras revealed no sign of canal builders, no Barsoomian air- cars or short swords, no princesses or fighting men, no thoats, no footprints, not even a cactus or a kangaroo rat. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand hit something big and furry—a rat?—as the water twisted and turned him and dragged him along. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rats had even dug out a new pantry-hole in one corner, and carved out the small tunnel that would connect the two rooms of the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I threw it to a nest of rats and ran for my life. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A huge black rat squealed and leaped at Bigger’s trouser-leg and snagged it in his teeth, hanging on. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rats in the ditch were ordered to continue pressing home the attack until Cluny and his party scaled the walls from behind and fought their way across the grounds to open the Abbey gates. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Seven rats, two ferrets and a stoat lay dead in the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Frightful caught one of several wet rats that had retreated to the church and crawled up to the bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Orcs had crept like rats through the culvert through which the stream flowed out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A huge silver rat strode into the space. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The largest pure rat is probably the Tasmanian, which has actually been weighed at one hundred pounds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It might be the perfect hideout for rats, but why would Ma want to go in there? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The boy carried on as before, hunting rats, filching his mother’s food, and always enduring her beatings. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He’s an über-jock and a gym rat, but he lives in such fear of illness that he never wants to get close enough to anyone to catch anything they might have or be carrying. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fabric of the sofa-bed had been nibbled by mice or rats. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This party, reader, was a sight for a rat’s eyes. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mealtimes, instead of eating both my tortillitas, I stuff one into a pocket when I can, hoping that a hungry rat will not nose it out from its hiding place beneath my petate. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed a corpse lying in front of the dry cleaners, and another by the florist five doors down, rats nibbling on their faces. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was a rat clumsily trying to stalk him, a fat awkward-looking rodent, but nevertheless an enemy. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bigger advanced a step and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering, its tiny forefeet pawing the air restlessly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the warehouse and office cat, who keeps the rats at bay in the storeroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Wilbur rushed over, pushed his strong snout under the rat, and tossed him into the air. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Gregor guessed this was the first time any of them had ever seen someone try to come between a fighting rat and a human. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This one mentioned only a couple of odd bearlike noises outside in the night, but what really caught the attention of the shelter’s chroniclers was the unusual liveliness of its resident mice and even rats. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What would Mr. Fitzgibbon think about rats who could cut through metal? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stomped off to the kitchen house, where I could hear the rats already at the manioc, rewarding my spite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Virgil’s really nice. And he’s shy, like I said before. He even has a pet rat.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He watched twelve rats falling over each other and bumping heads as they chased his friend around the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Thorn threw a rat tail into a cauldron between them and jumped back when the potion in progress squealed and turned green. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The man chuckled until his eyes filled with tears and he said, “This man say he prayin for the mulattas and the rats all over the world.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to notice the bristly-shouldered rat even when it scuttled right past her feet. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m starting to feel like a rat in a maze,” he told me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since I got B. cepacia, I feel like they’re the only ones in my life who don’t treat me like a lab rat. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His Twitter profile picture was a shot of a rat sitting atop a cube of cheese, its legs crossed. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The block and tackle parted under the strain, sending the ferret and the rats on the level shooting down into the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The masked man pulled the hose over to the center rat hole and pressed the plunger over it, covering it completely. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So you aim to be a princess. Well, everyone has a foolish dream. Gregory, for instance, dreams of a world where soup is legal. And that rat, Gregory is sure, has some foolish dream, too. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Probably, though we thought not so soon and not so many; a rat has a natural set of tools that monkeys lack: sharp, pointed teeth that never stop growing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A rat would do, in a pinch, but there’s no chance of that. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally got Mister Johnny out the way and now I have to worry about Miss Hilly coming over and ratting me out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But the thing about killing a rat is that you must first find a rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That rat! He didn’t even need those points. Selfish poacher,” Emily muttered. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We chased after the desert rats that lived in the wrecked cars, or caught tadpoles and frogs in the scum-topped pond. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth stuck her head in—her blond hair in a rat’s nest. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn had kept her eyes glued to the ground like she was looking for a missing rat’s tail until Valley reached across Seven and flicked Thorn on the chin. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The voice of Hamlet shouts, “What is this, a rat?” and his laughter echoes in a vast chamber. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Along with housing a kingdom of rats and roaches, the walls between tenements were paper-thin, so I was constantly involved in the personal lives of my neighbors, whether I wanted to be or not. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

No light crew marks gleamed in the darkness, no evidence of any other duct-and-scuttle workers marred the dust and rat droppings of the passage. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha-ha-ha! Of course you are looking forward to it. Y>u are looking forward to it because you are a rat, a real rat. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It feeds mainly on rats and birds, though has been known to carry off monkeys. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning in the mouth of the tunnel was a rat with a diagonal scar across his face. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But between the rats and Mrs. Frisby’s front door stood a small, defiant figure. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they’ll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn’t been bothered for years. They’d grown careless.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We have red thread. How delightful. Red thread means one thing to a rat. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Two rats among the swedes showed their teeth, thought better of it and left them alone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought how the rats had gnawed ragged holes in the red saddle, and how the mice had nibbled Gabilan’s tail until it was stringy and thin. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frantic animals — stray horses and cows, dogs and cats, and even rats — ran wild, causing increasingly more confusion. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She narrowed her eyes like a cornered rat. ‘Set fire to it and blow this place to blazes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“He told me,” she said finally, deciding it could do no harm, “to go and see the rats.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The king’s men went bravely into the dungeon to kill the rats. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Avoiding the stabs of the banner pole and the swift whiplike slashes of the tail, Basil realized that this was no clumsy rat he faced. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I reach out and poke it, hoping I won’t find a rat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The class went as quiet as if Sycorax and Caliban—the rats, not the monsters—had appeared before us, clacking their appalling yellow teeth. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought one miserable winged rat had so many colors? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stood there barefoot in my pajamas with my hair a big rat’s nest and searched for something to say. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” he added, helping Kira find her way around a puddle with a dead rat in it, “they wouldn’t want Matt, I’m afraid. They only want us for our skills, and he hasn’t any.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if someone notices me and rats me out? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Constance, would you please let the rat up? Much as I would like to see him get his just desserts, you must remember we cannot break the law of hospitality in our Abbey.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mariam heard of a neighborhood widow who had ground some dried bread, laced it with rat poison, and fed it to all seven of her children. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The driver later said that she saw the rats and tried to swerve but that they leaped onto their hind legs and jumped in front of her. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Medieval plagues had manifested themselves in a similar way, in the form of many dead rats. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Fort, wild, home, rat, open, belief, she chanted to herself as she wandered among the bookshelves. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rat suddenly leaped for her shoe and scrabbled its paws on her leg as it squealed with rage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chickenhound had screamed and fallen into the ditch, helped by the feet of the rat executioners. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Jemmy flattened himself against the grave-cold wall, but the prince seemed suddenly to rebel at being chased down like a sewer rat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

This new voice was grating, like listening to metal scratching metal, or a dying rat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I spook at every sound: rats cheeping in the trash, broken bricks settling in the night. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the rat greedily gobbling down my leftovers and try to see what makes Nate so special. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She was beyond his sight, cruising above the West Branch of the Delaware, looking for rats. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the eighth rat still lay unmoving among the saplings. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty rats sitting motionless on the rocks above the opening to the tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, rats can run faster than people, especially over short distances. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But the boys started calling me “thief” and “jail rat” and I knew only one way to settle the argument: with my fists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Gregor was about to retrieve the bowl when he saw the first rat claw catch the top of the ledge. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He, like me, was brought up to believe that you don’t rat on your homeboys. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Usually the rats or bugs woke her when their curiosity became too much, interrupting her dreams and returning her to the darkness of the platform. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“He turned her from a hyena to a cane rat and then to a blackjack bush. I threw it into the fire.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a new wave of rats danced along the edge of the clearing all three men ran to the truck and from it pulled long-handled nets. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Out by the island, there’s places look like a cheese the rats been at.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The book in which I found that passage was full of tables and graphs showing the results of experiments on frogs, salamanders, rats, apes, and human beings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In that rosebush, concealed and protected by dense tangles of fiercely sharp thorns, was the entrance to a rat hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Would it be possible for you to create some kind of diversion while I’m getting the tapestry? Could you keep the rats occupied, Basil?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You saved me from that rat the first night. So we’re even.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

May didn’t allow rat traps in the house, as she couldn’t even bear the thought of a suffering rat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he pats the spot where I was sitting on the bench and grins when the rat hops up and puts its front paws on his leg! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But when a rat ran over Scipio’s foot they decided not to sleep on the floor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to settle in, and I also did not want the rug rats messing with my few possessions. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see what you rats are made of. First come, first served.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Better forget it, Morton. You’ll never hack it as a rat.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, a scrawny brown rat materialized on the side bench, nervous and breathless. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And just about every day my mother had to get new cardboard to make pallets because the rats were eating those too. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had forgotten, too, its terrible smell, the stench of rats, the odor of suffering. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then up, up, very steeply, for more than an hour—not really difficult for us, since rats are better climbers than men; also, we are shorter, so we had little trouble with the spiney underbrush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wet dog—or rat—has to be 1 of the worst smells in the world. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A natural arch of stone framed a wide road, worn smooth by many rat feet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have made notes about all of it, and if the time ever comes when rats publish books of their own, I intend to write a book about it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a rat. I told you that it was a rat. He was hanging from the chandelier, and now he is in Mama’s soup!” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I swept the rat off and sent him flying to the ground. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And I looked down and I said, “That’s my pet rat, Toby,” because he was looking out of my pocket at the policeman. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give yourself so much credit. It was your rat I was after.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“They’ve eaten every one, Your Grace, along with every rat and scavenger dog that they could catch. Now some have begun to eat their own dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If you looked down the hole, you would often see rats scurrying about in the gloom. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Broke through the false wall, looking for rats. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Get out of my house now before I disembowel you with my teeth and spit you out into the street for the rats to feast on. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He knows we’re not rats because we bring him apples when we rob an orchard out the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To the other rats he said: “Get the shovels and the backpacks.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took the rat from the bag and put it on her shoulder. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I told myself I couldn’t because I was loaded down with a ukulele and a rat. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But there was one book, written by a famous scientist, that had a chapter about rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Chester,” wailed Tucker Mouse, “don’t say that! You’ll make me feel like a rat. And I’m only a mouse.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we’re really lucky. Then someone comes out. Fishing boat or a trader will spot it, even if the beach rats don’t.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally we came upon other rats, and a few times we talked with them, but not for long. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the rat and threw it his way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Correct. Uncle Woody thinks squirrels are ‘nothing but thieving rodents’ and ‘rats with fluffy tails.’ Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s your rat, by that big sycamore yonder. Huh, looks like he’s had a spot of bother, too.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She said she thought she heard the sound of rats, a dry scrabbling sound. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He distrusted her exotic appearance and was convinced that if she wore her hair like other women and wiped the makeup off her eyes she would look like a very thin, greenish rat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scientist who replaces murine model with rats and mice will use up no more space on the page and be no less scientific. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was frightened to see the rats were halfway up the wall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How come brown rats bleach out in the water?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But one of them, a lean rat with a scarred face, left his group and walked toward them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A large evil-looking rat, covered in tattoos and carrying a rusty cutlass, had turned up at the gate. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After he left, Kainene said, “He roasted a fantastic bush rat for us last week. But you would have thought it was a rack of lamb the way he went on about it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Come on, dude. I know you ratted them out, and we had to defend our friend, and now it's over. Let’s end it.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The rat regarded the three armed humans with amusement. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“An ordinary common or garden rat like this can’t be expected to live longer than three years or so,” said the witch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Gregory sees you,” Gregory said to the rats shadow Roscuro ceased his dance. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

His senses subconsciously savored the clatter of rats and the smell of old paper and wood and the possessed feeling that his pair of baggy Levy Pants gave him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of a half dozen stripped new deads in front of the apartment building, with no guarantee they’d ever be removed, which meant dodging rats just to get through the door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Darius, who chases girls with firecrackers or a stick that touched a rat and thinks he’s tough, today pointed up because the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was far from friendly, but her mind was on Athens, not me or rats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Just on account of seven rats?” said Billy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

At a signal from the Warlord, a gang of rats leaped upon Constance and beat her back into unconsciousness with their weapons. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the strong sunlight the badger watched the silhouette of the big rat moving about behind the canvas. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There he lay, gasping on his belly like a half drowned rat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have heartbeats. The rats neither. You know that, doncha?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He brushed off his clothes and tried to adopt the rats’ casual banter. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The charred, headless, tailless bodies laid out on the crates were not squirrels at all—they were rats—but the cry of the vendors never changed: “Squirrel! Squirrel!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

This destructive effect, known since 1948, was at first believed to be confined to dogs, because it was not revealed in such experimental animals as monkeys, rats, or rabbits. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No. But I’ll bet Jeremy knows. Remember, he told you the rats had a clearing back in the hills. That must be in Thorn Valley.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Mrs. Frisby told the children that she must leave them to confer again with the rats about moving the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

So he let himself drift off, trying to push the images of striped spider legs and jagged rat teeth from his brain. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It whooshed through the air, causing the rats to stop in their tracks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I really do hear the rat,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias struck a rat square in the face with the butt of his branch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rat mumbled something to himself and disappeared into the shadows. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mig had climbed the dungeon stairs and was preparing to open the door to the kitchen, when the rat spoke to her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ron was just saying he wished he had asked Hermione how many rat tails you were supposed to add to a Hair- Raising Potion when an angry outburst from the floor above reached their ears. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“It looks like a doghouse,” he said, “and it’s empty except for the spiders and river rats, and maybe a gator that managed to sneak in but couldn’t find its way out.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And then, too, there was the noise of the rats going about their business, their sharp nails hitting the stones of the dungeon and their long tails dragging behind them, through the blood and muck. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Ifes, yes,” whispered the rat, “a lovely song. Just the song I have been waiting to hear. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Limping about, the rat explained that he had been in a hay cart that overturned into the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Are you afraid of rats? I’m scared to death.’ The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And mugging for the cameras with Cinnamon the rat licking her nose. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the rats by the back of their necks—which was not easy, since they were so fat—pulled them off her lap, and hoisted them into the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Animals began to emerge—mostly pigs and dogs, but rats, too. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had searched every room and found no living thing save rats and mice. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, rat, you win. But how do I know you’ll keep your word? First let the friar go, then I promise on my honor as a warrior that I’ll come down.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rat was trying to do exactly as she and Basil had done. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I believe many of those atoms found their way into my corpse-loving rat terrier—possibly into me as well. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The owl and the rats had calculated wisely, and the nearest furrow was more than two feet from her house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he is, Lain, you idiot I scramble for the note from the Commandant, hoping the smith thinks my comment is the result of being a dim-witted Scholar rat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The cancerous and tubercular rats and mice leaped about their cages. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, her brother now properly subdued and her irritation spent, Bristle retrieved the morsel of rat and dropped it in front of him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He knew he ought to hide the rat, but he was so hungry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shiny, slippery rats, fat and fast, poured in and out of the basket, twitching their noses and flicking their tails. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the hoods of their patchwork cloaks, one was a rat, the other a bull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’s leaning over a sink filled with bubbles and what seems to be a giant rat. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could see a cage full of squealing rats. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I even said hello to a rat that crossed my path, running from one garbage heap to another. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Instead I just stared down at it as if he were offering me a dead rat. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She threw the rat on the floor and kicked it at Uncle Shepsel. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In a pantry they came upon part of a sack of cornmeal that rats had been at in the long ago. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some reach the East River, where they jump in “like rats.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She screamed and pushed off her covers, and the rat jumped to the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on, laugh!” he ordered, and the rats let out a sound like sheep bleating. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have nothing to do with last week’s garbage or fear of rats. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been across to the woods to satisfy his curiosity about what the rats were doing there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then I told the policeman how Mr. Vandermeer was teaching his rats to play basketball with a teeny ball for a science experiment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Isn't the administration aware that if they continue these repressive policies, all the best students will desert the school faster than rats from a sinking ship? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was heading for the ground at tremendous speed, dodging the rats that reached for him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now, in the dungeon, it hit her full force: The rat was right. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I'm working through a couple of scenarios, one of them involving rat poison and soup, even though poison is a cowardly way to murder a man, when I stop short. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As things got worse they ate their horses, dogs, and cats, and then any rat, mouse, or snake they could catch. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everything sleeps save the snails climbing the rocks and the rats scurrying among the piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The encounter with the rats in the barn had been no joke and had proved their worth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had they been able to fight off the rats? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ripred wiped his muzzle on one of the dead rats and spoke in a whisper. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And look at those thorns. It’s hard to see how even a rat could get in there.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody realized that the crate already contained a rat and a spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Richard Parker opened his maw and the squealing rat disappeared into it like a baseball into a catcher s mitt. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is filth in the streets and flys swarming and even rats running sometimes right in front of me when I walk home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thwaites’s father, who was a doctor, had said that they were made from rats’ blood. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny amount will make the rat sick but not kill it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Without warning, Westley’s sword flashed, and the nearest rat was bleeding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He sent one of the rats scurrying away with a smoking behind as a warning to the rest. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If a troop of Peacekeepers were to come through that door, we’d be trapped like rats. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Inside the gate a big rat ran across in front of him and the dog checked at it for a moment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to catch a rat, but somehow he came nosing around and got in my trap. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat raised his cutlass in both claws, but, before he could strike, Constance had hurled the net over him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a crash and a yell, followed by the shocked screams of agonized rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They called Bri’s name wherever they walked, but there was no sound in return except that of the wind howling and the rats scurrying. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It even had to do with Henry and the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That we will be trapped like rats until the hour passes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Twice in my lifetime I have heard travelers speak of this rat. He bears a name that a fox would be afraid to whisper in the darkness of midnight. Cluny the Scourge!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A ferocious rat face glared at him over her shoulder, but he looked back coldly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran several feet and then the cat, with one bound, was upon it, batting it hard with one sharp-clawed paw, while with the other paw it held the rat down. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“What a lot of nonsense!” muttered the rat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“But Miss Wren had better be down there, too, because rat bites don’t heal quickly.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jon noted Frightful’s interest in the pigeons and rats, and on a bright but chilly morning he carried her to the top of his mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The creaking wooden sailing ships were crawling with rats. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those Scholar rats know only what I want them to know. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The rat looked at Temp and Tick, who were cowering against the wall, and sighed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The storage room is going to become an ordinary, typical rat hole, not in the least mechanized or civilized.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could ask about the approaching humans, Bristle picked up what remained of the rat—a single hind leg with its long tail—and stalked off with it dangling from her jaw. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Almost six months,” Maya said, and for the first time, she looked almost relaxed, not like a lab rat in a cage, waiting to see what would happen next. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Many rats were coming, The Underlanders were going into defense mode. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You think about it, because your only value to us is who you can rat out." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The rabbit has the life it has—not a rat life or mongoose life—because it is named rabbit, mvundla. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean the Internet, not the rats. But that’s not the point. Percy, do you understand what I’m saying about family?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Was this, then, their destination, the main hall of the rats? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Endless gallons of scalding water hit the rats in the tunnel like a hellish tidal wave. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kicking the rat over on his back, she flung the broken blade away and grabbed the rodent’s tail tightly with both paws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If only I had my armour,” he said with irritation, “it seems ridiculous to be caught like a rat in a trap.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like he’d shrunk to the size of a small rat. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She kept on saying that the rat was coming to get her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I never would have guessed that any flying rat thing could be good,” Florida said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Reek remembered the dungeons underneath the Dreadfort, the rat squirming between his teeth, the taste of warm blood on his lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is a waste of time and energy But still, the king officially decreed that all rats in the Kingdom of Dor were outlaws and should be treated as such. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, rat beard wigs will do that sometimes,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘But how do they turn the rats into liquorice?’ the young Thwaites had asked his father. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could be theirs forever, thanks to the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, how stupid would you have to be to rat someone out about something that you were doing, too? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And when you’re just topping three feet in height yourself, a good-sized rat can be a real threat, especially since rats are one of the few breeds that can see straight through a fairy shield. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I let out a big sigh to show I don’t give a fat rat about that lie anymore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Four rats lay dead near the wall, and Killconey’s drum stood unattended in the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You ratted out Paul and Marya. We got you back. Truce?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After a while she said, “Remember when you said being a rat was the first step to becoming a man?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided at that stage, at least, she would not tell them about their father’s connection with the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We must consider, for a moment, what had occurred with the rat and the serving girl and the princess down in the dungeon before Despereaux made his way to them. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

When he had driven the rats off, he faced Cluny boldly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In her worry about Moving Day, in watching the tractor, the cat, and finally the rats, Mrs. Frisby had forgotten that she had set out originally to get some corn for supper. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a thieving rat of a man, but he’s loyal to the King. I know he’s been hoarding his best wares.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked up the driveway to my house, Joey said, “See ya, rat.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that twice as he flung the snow onto a pile of decomposing bodies, he found he was also tossing rats that had frozen in the snowfall. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had plans for the drum to beat the rats! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

On the ground she could no longer see the rat or the thicket where he lay, but she knew the direction, and she ran. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Aye, name him Reek, he thought, and when he s bad you can cut his toes off and give him rats to eat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Hoover hadn’t forgotten that Comstock had criticized the bureau and had threatened to turn Senator Curtis against him—which made Comstock, in Hoover’s eyes, a malicious rat. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If you ask me, those nutria look just like giant rats. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of other rats in the neighborhood. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hopscotched around an oily puddle and a legion of rats scurried away from my feet, sending Olive into Bronwyn’s arms with a shriek. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The only creatures to benefit from this pestilence are the rats. Go home, Matilda, take my regards to your grandfather, but tell him he must lock all the doors and pray for frost.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not fish or decaying rat; tanned skin, moist in the sun, filmed with smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night’s dinner. Garbage and two dead rats.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had fought rats and spiders and his own worst fears to reunite with his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

First, the regular student code about not ratting people out—that didn’t apply at the Academy. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Do stop whining, Colin! It doesn’t help matters, and keep your voice down. There may still be rats about. Try to be brave like your mum and dad.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised you don’t choke on all the food us sewer rats give you.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Between Boots and the twenty killer rats that were now streaming across the bridge—there was only Tick. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You crazy little rat,” said Favell slowly, “you bloody crazy little rat.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was leaving them in the hands of a rat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I deserve to live out the rest of my days underground, like the naked mole rat that’s absolutely revolting to look at and lives forever in darkness and isolation. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were ten or twelve rats patrolling it, some distance away. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You’re right about that. She was trying to give him some slack, let him work his way through this rat phase of his.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Victoria is great at styling her hair and she promised she could style it to look like a rat’s nest to suit the character’s chaotic mind. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That finally she had, though, was probably no more amazing than, say, a snake’s being able to swallow a rat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back me up. The little rat just woke up.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was watching the rats running for their lives. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough in the winter when everything flows over and seeps under our door but worse in the warm weather when there are flies and bluebottles and rats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cheesethief ignored them as he moved among the bodies that had fallen from the high branches; four rats, a ferret, and one weasel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Close your eyes. Pretend that I am not a rat. Pretend that I am nothing but a voice in the darkness. A voice that cares. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was then that the rats were driven to become scavengers and thieves, living on the fringes of a world run by men. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner was the rat in Kevin’s lap than it scampered up his chest and darted between two buttons into his shirt. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They kept saying that my friends—Henry and Charles—had ratted on me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So, cautioning myself to allow the rat scene to disclose only Bigger, his family, their little room, and their relationships, I let the rat walk in, and he did his stuff. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The incident reminded me of the time in Poe Park when this squirrel I was feeding turned out to really be a rat which at first glance could have passed for a squirrel any day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why. Plus she didn’t want to discipline him in front of you. But when her patience ran out, that was it. Curtains for Joey the rat.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Coraline checked under her bed, looking for rats, but there was nothing there. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It finally dawned on me that what the feller meant was their ‘rights,’ only, the way they talk, it came out ‘rats.’ The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We listened for the scrambling of two large rats. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When they came to the word “rats,” they screamed it in our faces. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest rat climbed onto the old man’s shoulders, swung up on the long gray mustache, past the big black button eyes, and onto the top of the man’s head. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Gey and several others had already shown that some rats grew tumors when injected with live HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Wild-eyed, with the terror of rat smell in its nostrils, the horse plunged ahead without any driver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Fascinating as your native rituals are, do you think we might proceed in silence? Given that the entire rat nation is on the lookout for us, it might be prudent,” said Ripred. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed I did, Father Abbot. My badger senses told me right off that these were very bad and evil rats.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The oriental rat flea, the principal vector of plague, has recently demonstrated resistance to DDT, a most serious development. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The pet lady looked at me like I was the only person on the planet who thought a Chihuahua was not a rat. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rather dig in the garbage heaps with the rats for my meals. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Each time he lifted his paw the rats near him flinched. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered approximately where she had seen the rats go in, and she studied that part of the bush carefully. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She kept dreaming that she was being eaten by rats, and she used every excuse she could to spend the night at friends’ houses. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the city, the only things to run down were rats and cats and scrawny dogs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Anchel is dead. Daphne is dead. The rats found Shed, Fangor. King Gorger has launched his armies. They come for us,” gasped the woman. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We scattered like rats into the debris-filled street, and I could barely recognize where I was. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the rats were really hopeless climbers in Cluny’s estimation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Torchlight glimmered off the polished brass of their masks—a rat and a fox. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Foremole and his team knew all there was to know about the diggings: depth, approximate dimensions, the placement of shoring, even where the first rat’s head was likely to break ground. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That reminds me, you forgot your rat tonic,” said Hermione, slapping the small red bottle into Ron’s hand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Across the tops of these the rats fastened strong, light bars of metal, probably, Mrs. Frisby thought, from the Toy Tinker’s truck. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She no longer had any doubt, of course, that the rats could move her house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bob can sneak into cracks and crevices like a tracked rat. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Besides avoiding one another in limited space, they had to dodge the wicked claws of the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rats by dozens—rats standing and talking in groups of twos and threes and fours, rats walking slowly, rats hurrying, rats carrying papers. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias dodged, wriggled and ran free, tripping a rat who was about to seize Mr. Vole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He pulled his pet rat out of his pocket. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. You know, when I was a rat there?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We expect him to eat the rats but he’ll leave them in the lane with their guts hanging out and run to my father for a piece of bread dipped in tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To Hugh—at that point, at least—Matt was only a rat to be crushed underfoot. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, one of the first and simplest of these exercises was a picture, a clear photograph, of a rat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We toss the bits of rat over the parapet and again lie in wait. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to them I am a starved, scrawny prison rat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked south of Central Park, he found there were no corpses and no rats. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I could have a look at the rat?” he said evenly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Templeton was a crafty rat, and he had things pretty much his own way. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Hah. He loves it. He’s glad he’s a rat. He says it’s nature’s way. He says it’s a step up to being a man.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rats bit him when he slept, gnawing at his fingers and his toes, even at his face, so when he got his hands on one he did not hesitate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was still trying to force back the blackest thought of all; the merest suggestion of it sent the rat’s feet of panic skittering up my spine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ground trembled under the wheels, and Mrs. Frisby thought of the ten rats huddled below. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A fat sleek ranch cat walked across the road carrying a rat so large that its tail dragged on the ground. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

There just might be some of Cluny’s rats lying in ambush for any creature that ventured into the shadowy fringes of Mossflower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A mob of rats had scrambled through the fence to catch Basil, but it was like trying to catch smoke upon the wind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ron lifted Scabbers out of his inside pocket and placed him next to the cage of his fellow rats, who stopped their skipping tricks and scuffled to the wire for a better look. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As I sat at her table, she put the rubbish sack in a covered dish to dissuade the rats and roaches. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the same smell they couldn’t get out of their basement after a rat died inside one of the walls. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

This member of the Gestapo, I realize, is afraid of rats. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The beat of a drum was audible, and individual rats could be picked out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes and saw the rat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Matthias could even count the whiskers on some of the rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We can chase the rats and kill them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The takeout containers were still there, but the rats had licked them clean. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The sound of his key turning in the lock brought back my time in the City Hall dungeon with the madwoman and the rats. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was really listening to the men’s conversation, watching for any sign that Billy was about to rat me out, trying to think of ways to stop him if he began. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The dog-and-rat pits paid fancy prices for the best fighters, and that meant sewer rats. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the approaching army of rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds against the evening sky were the gray of rats, and the air was not damp but dank. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere beneath them lay the bodies of King Gorger, his army of rats, and Henry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them stuffed their faces until they dragged their very full stomachs to the car, groaning all the way, much like Templeton the rat after his night of indulgence at the fair. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

At lightning speed the big rat’s claws shot out, and grabbed them both cruelly by the ears. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

From ahead came noises: the sound of many rats talking, a sound of hurrying and thumping and of machinery running. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For not a leaf fragment blew under the door but what the wall panels flipped open and the copper scrap rats flashed swiftly out. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Dewey decimal doors are now open and, unlike Tuck, this game will not be everlasting. Therefore, it is time to race upstairs like the rats of NIMH!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“The rats fight well in close range. But if we attack from afar, they have no recourse but to run. Of all things, they wish a way to kill us at a distance,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One encyclopedia had a sentence of praise for us: “The common rat is highly valued as an experimental animal in medical research due to his toughness, intelligence, versatility and biological similarity to man.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“After lunch I thought you might like to play in your room with the rats.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Like a little grey rat, she thought, he would not let go. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The story of the rat is not true and everyone knows it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of them would have watched Boots and the crawlers fall into the river to stop the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The foul rat skins had been replaced by silken garments. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s going to drag me to school, and my name will be mud for ratting them out. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Eight rats, two from each group, ran to the round pieces of wood Mrs. Frisby had noticed earlier; these resembled sawed-up pieces of broom handle, each about a foot long. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their kind would have regarded the comparison as a mortal insult, but they were able to conceal themselves at least as well as rats. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"But wasn't that the human thing to do? After all, he had to protect himself because —" "He was a handkerchief-headed rat!" a woman screamed, her voice boiling with contempt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When news of King Gorger’s death reached the rats, they fell into chaos. We have driven them far back into the Dead Land. Without a leader, they are in total disarray,” said Mareth. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I was partly responsible for the rat’s death, but I’d only thrown it; it was Richard Parker who had killed it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the rats and the ferret were dead. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With the greatest of care Sister Fenella lifted her up, and Lyra’s rat dæmon leapt onto her tiny shoulder and became a shrew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Black rats and a pig root around in a ravine where the children play. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Wary that there might be other rats about, Matthias climbed into the church through a broken stained-glass window. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She heard the faint squeaking of rats and glimpsed a pair of tiny glowing eyes on the edge of the light, but rats did not scare her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I remember Jenner’s saying, “They must have had a really busy day,” and we ran joyfully toward the pile along with several dozen other rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In summer the wormwalks were seldom used, save by rats and other vermin, but winter was a different matter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re wetter than a wharf rat,” he says, but she just mutters, “Keep watching...keep watching...” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Knowing that Cluny was smarter than either of them, she wished she didn’t have this big dumb rat to corroborate the story. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The list of diseases and their insect carriers, or vectors, includes typhus and body lice, plague and rat fleas, African sleeping sickness and tsetse flies, various fevers and ticks, and innumerable others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Those rats and vermin, an absolute shower of yahoos and cads! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then they send starving rats down the pipe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It must have been the longest tail of any rat alive. He held it in his claw as if it were a whip.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That’s the whole point. Being a rat is the next step up to being a man. You want to be a man, don’t you?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would have saved us some trouble if the kid had ratted on his partner, but he denied everything to the end. Like I said, it’s a shame. Probably would have made a good Executive.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How many rats were traveling in the cart altogether?” he asked. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s certainly an advantage we have over the omnivore rat, which cannot share its hard-won knowledge of food with other rats. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If the rats could detect the handful of greens he’d eaten hours earlier, they must have an unbelievable sense of smell. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat gray rat, which was asleep. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There was a rat poking through a pile of trash. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Not knowing when the rats were going to stop fighting, and realizing that they might not, the kindly Abbot advised those who had been relieved to try and get some sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And for that, reader, the rat knew that he must go upstairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he’d ratted out his friends or if he was the kind of guy who’d take the fall rather than snitching. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the rats came, Buckthorn and Silver had obeyed Bigwig and stood their ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scooped up the rat and put him in her bag. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It had taken him so long to catch the rat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever mentioned his stunted height and the pointed teeth that looked like they belonged to a bush rat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Living on a remote island, I was starting to realize, turned people into pack rats. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"I can't believe this. You dirty little rats. But I like the fact that y'all are ganging up on me. That means my plan is working." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But even Dragon, though he would chase a rat up to the edge of the bush, would not follow him into it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The badger’s statement caused uproar and shouts of “Nonsense. Pure speculation” and “That’s right! Give a rat a bad name!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“London! Where even the rats wear top “Oh, I didn’t go on about it that much,” Enoch said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Emily took over the keyboard and typed, Do you know what fort, wild, home, rat, open, and belief mean? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want a poisoned rat to have one last spasm and bite me through my sneakers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The only animals we see are pigeons and rats, which are essentially the same thing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Those were the times she missed—not the days of hunger or rats or sickness, but the warmth of the fire when her family laughed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I liked that because I like mice and rats. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful flew to her hand and gulped a large bite of rat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Allen was also listening for the reassuring noises of animals: the whine of mosquitoes, the whir of crickets, the scurry of rats in the underbrush. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then one of the shovels broke through into air; they had come to the rats’ storage room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't fret about the dark! There are rats in here. Even grown men are scared of 'em! Hang on to me." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the rats trooped in, their sacks were empty. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the crinkling came again, louder, and when I pushed the door open, I wasn’t staring at a group of rats ravaging a bag of snack food. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“If I’m a mouse, you’re a dirty old rat in a pile of rotten meat bones! Take us home at once!” screamed Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Drogon wrenched his arm from his shoulder and tossed it aside as a dog might toss a rodent in a rat pit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We all knew, that no matter what, I wasn’t going to rat on my homeboy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I waited three years to be a rat.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gnawed like a rat into the godown of Chacko’s grief. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some kept the excess birds under control; some kept the rabbits from destroying his garden; others cleaned up the rats, mice, and voles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He never mentioned spiders or rats or what he’d been through since his dad had disappeared. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the rats taking bits of their stores every day, it was easy to hide a little thievery here and there, but hiding two people altogether—it had never been done. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There, crouched on Maureen’s lavender blanket, a few inches away from her face, was the rat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A rat ran under the bare feet of some people standing near us, but no one paid any attention. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the brotherhood of riders here, there is also here a brotherhood of rateros, thieves, swarming The Beast like rats. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the rat, in seeking forgiveness, did manage to shed some small light, some happiness into another life. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“He must really like you, Harry. Imagine having to live off rats.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The cats keep the rats down, I know, but that one ... he’s been known to attack ravens in the rookery.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, they repeated the experiment, but they replaced the food with something that gave the rat or mouse intense pleasure. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yet how could she stay at home when the ten rats, including Justin and Brutus, were waiting bravely underground? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Where a rat had gone, a flying fish would follow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The rats have begun to battle one another for their throne.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When someone ratted on him, the police questioned Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“But I had to be satisfied with . . . that filthy, slavering rat Maria called a dog. I keep a small amount of laudanum for my nerves.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought your friend Ron might like to keep this owl, as it’s my fault he no longer has a rat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She always feared that one day she’d get in trouble for ratting out Mr. Pepperhorn, and now it was actually happening. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, what the scientists found out was that the rat or mouse would put up with a lot more voltage for the pleasure. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had known these things—and so, it emerged, did the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Still there was one rat who decided to try it anyway. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the chinchillas came down with a disease peculiar to rats, and they were all dead within two weeks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny was a bilge rat; the biggest, most savage rodent that ever jumped from ship to shore. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rats now commenced to dig busily at the dirt on top of and around Mrs. Frisby’s cinder block. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night, they bought rats on a stick from a boat seller, and watched the street river traffic. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So we assumed. But then came rumor the rats had kept him living,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The prophecy also speaks of one lost. That one may be your father, in which case Boots is the second Overlander. But it may also be a rat,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another kid ratted me out in confession, and the priest turned me in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Surrender, rat, I’ve got you,” cried Mr. Fieldmouse as he grabbed hold of the thief. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That’s the alarm signal. A dozen rats would come out this door, ready to fight. All the rest, with the women and children, would be hurrying out the back door.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stood by the churchyard fence, intent on trying out the whipping powers of his fearsome tail upon a few rats that he had dubbed “the awkward squad.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And it might be that some coaches somewhere would delay a tryout on an afternoon when some of the tryoutees have just been traumatized by two gigantic rats falling out of their classroom ceiling. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Brother George agreed, on condition that the rat surrender his weapon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wood rats and a skunk had almost immediately taken over his old bedroom. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She never ratted me out to my parents, but obviously she’d remembered the trick. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The rat she brought to school was only the tip of the iceberg. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“He must of thought he was a rat,” Willard cried. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Jack or Auggie would have been dumb enough to rat on me, because they had started leaving me notes in my locker, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She felt the same kind of nausea she had once felt when she saw a swarm of fat white maggots crawling over the putrid carcass of a rat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled over desiccated rat bodies and their nests. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of microraptors chased a rat across the street, which was then scooped up by a policeman’s knuckleskull and gobbled. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“God, I could have ratted out anyone,” Alaska said softly as she unearthed a forty-ounce bottle of Magnum malt liquor from Long- well Chase’s closet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He sought me in the country where it had long been rumored I was hiding. . . helped, of course, by the rats he met along the way. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A rat has taken her and hidden her in the dungeon, so I have to go back to the dungeon, and it is full of twists and turns and hidden chambers.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow. ” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It seemed like it would be real easy for Machine Gun Kelly to point at some poor slob and say, “That’s the guy what ratted me out, Lefty. Finish him off!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I saw the dust on the model ships, the rat holes on the divan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The other Underlanders, blades flashing, were attacking the five remaining rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were good hiding places there—excellent cover for a rat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe the rats were hoarding supplies for the summer drought up there. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you start. If you had a big rat on your foot, you’d wet your pants.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the rats weren’t running around in the dark, the mosquitoes were after you. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ready, Chico, rat,” 1 said into my headset mike. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The two brothers stood over the dead rat and spoke in tones of awed admiration. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large rat ran across Amari’s feet as they were marched past the men. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They think the rats have rabies. They don’t like to say so because it makes people panicky.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A true one. About your father, and about the rats.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rat’s soul was set afire, and because of this, he journeyed upstairs, seeking the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that describes well the rats’ land,” said Luxa with a sniff. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were two sets of encyclopedias that had sections on rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Someone screamed, but the rat fell only to the floor at Hillari’s feet. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The scarring was inevitable—to live in fear of their father’s death, and then to find out he had been taken to prison at gunpoint, made a prisoner, made to live like a rat? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He kicked the splintered box out of the way and the flat black body of the rat lay exposed, its two long yellow tusks showing distinctly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Old Nan had told her there were spiders down here, and rats as big as dogs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The huge brown eunuch yanked him up one-handed and shook him like a mastiff with a rat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As they bounded at her, Tick flew directly into the face of the lead rat, causing it to startle back in surprise. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They found that the rats and mice multiplied because there were no longer any foxes left to hunt them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of him would have gagged a rat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“All right, then,” Black said, without taking his eyes off the rat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The gaoler was a scarecrow of a man with a rat's face and frayed beard, clad in a mail shirt and a leather half cape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was flat on the floor, feeding the live screen a brilliant shot of the rat heading over to the jury, the jury members scrambling, taking off, climbing onto their seats. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The pig is a graft between a rat, a cat and a dog, Mr. Muhammad taught us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put aside Margo’s blanket and shouted, loud enough for all the rats to hear, “I Am Going To Find Something Here!” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He did so in the flick of an eye, and from a goldfinch he became a rat, a powerful pitch-black rat with red eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen rats so far away from the river. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced back for a second and saw Vikus knock the scarred rat into the river with the hilt of his sword. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Westley had his sword by then, and with two quick thrusts, the trio of rats was disposed of. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His heart was beating hard, and though the light from the match had disappeared, it danced, still, before the rats eyes, even when he closed them. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Leave him be, you—you stinking jail rat. You’re nothing but a common thief!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, there was some kind of rat race.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had often reminded her that pigeons were “rats with wings.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then they began to climb on top of each other, carefully but swiftly, until they had formed a pyramid with the largest rat at the top. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The innkeep came to take my plate, and I decided on a bath first, mainly because I was sick to death of smelling like a week-dead rat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No music from next door, no loud talking on the stoop, even the rats scratching in the wall are quieter. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

After two years, such tumors were present in more than half the rats examined. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Rats are illegal. Rats are against the law There are no rats in my kingdom. They do not exist.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then she started swinging her round and round her head, faster and faster and Amanda was screaming blue murder and the Trunchbull was yelling, "I'll give you pigtails, you little rat!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rats who had been attacking the gatehouse left off fighting and ran down the road to the fiery holocaust. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I was finding Toby. He’s my pet rat.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And this rat or mouse would walk over to the food and eat. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And that, according to Joey, meant being a rat. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did think, however, that the symbolism of the rat and squirrel or rat-squirrel or squirrel-rat was evocative and rather excellent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another blew face-on into the rat ahead of me and stopped there—it was Jonathan, who had been near the lead. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mrs. Frisby’s spirits fell again, and she said, almost bitterly: “You are joking, sir; you are not serious. No rat could move my house. It is far too heavy, much too big.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they didn’t find Skeleton Woman and her bones, there could be a bear, or a thousand rats. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Reader, this is important: The rat called Chiaroscuro did not look away He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a rat, entirely black from tip to tail, barely distinguishable from the night itself. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Best I could afford. Catch me some castle rats and I'll make a special feature. The king's own rats!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a two-ounce mouse alone in a dark, twisting dungeon full of rats. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I have to let him up the spout or he’ll beat me up and tell my mother and the next thing she locks me in the coal hole all day with the rats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He was eating a lot of rats. Now they will be into your manioc.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d gone crazy and killed himself, I thought-—gotten so sick of this cheerful but futureless eternity that he’d guzzled rat poison or taken a dive off a cliff. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But when the eighth came round, a certain Phoinikian adventurer came too, a plausible rat, who had already done plenty of devilry in the world. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nimble as rats they jump from car to car, into the deepening dark. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need the company of a rat. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we would not be having this conversation,” said Ripred. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, if the rat continues to be awash in new experiences, and doesn’t give the brain a break, it doesn’t process the new information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you don’t want to come? Think of all you’re missing—the seasickness, the rats, the storms, week after week in the nice dark ’tween deck.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Basil dodged around a rat and laughed approvingly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she was simply racing pell-mell down the steps in pursuit of the rat, with no room in her mind for anything else, certain she was gaining on it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Your dad said you were a tough little rat. Didn’t think you were going to make it, though.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger dodged and the rat landed against a table leg. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The rats at Elsinore are not so big! The prince is surely mad.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And so while Mig held the knife pointed in the direction of the princess, the Pea sat and let the rat crawl over her back, doing her buttons up for her, one by one. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I know where that cinder block is,” said the rat named Arthur. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A rat scurried up the side of the hooch, jumped onto Walowick’s bunk, and stopped right in the middle of it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Joey also wants you to know that he has dropped out of the rat race and has rejoined the human race.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If trouble can multiply like rats in grain, then that is what our troubles do in 1609. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It waren’t like a rat had curled up in a hole somewhere and died then commenced to swelling up and rotting, but it waren’t far from that. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Why, of course you will, Mr. Hare. What a bore you must think me. I’ll probably sit around on the common here and teach the rats to make daisy chains.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Maybe some rats got into it and stole some. Don’t worry, tonight I will seal it very tight,” he says. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm. So you mean if I want a shot at winning the pageant, all I gotta do is rat you out to your dad?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Deza Malone laughed, and for a second I thought she was going to rat me out. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I stand a while and look at boys chase rats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I draw a line in the dirt a few feet from the force field as a reminder to keep back, and Peeta and I settle down to roast nuts and sear cubes of rat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Knot! Vine! Toss this rat back in the water.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Human ears have successfully been grown on the back of rats and then attached to the head of a human by grafting. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But even if they did set her free—her children were alone; the rats were coming tonight to move her house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mamita looked at me like I was a rat that she wanted to hit with a broom. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat leaped at Constance, swinging his cutlass expertly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Luxa should not have struck you, but your fight invited horrible death to those she loved. This is greatly felt by her, as both her parents were killed by rats.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rat was actually in midair when a huge blunt paw knocked him flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have ratted on them, but anyone who shacks up with a Jaguar-driving Weekday Warrior like Paul deserves what she gets.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But rats are unfair to us,” he said. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Still, he knew how vicious the rats were. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the rat that looked big as a cat dive off the stage right into Aunt Loma’s lap. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

What, reader, in your experience is the promise of a rat worth? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I called it “ridiculous”; their own Northern ghettoes, right at home, had enough rats and roaches to kill to keep all of the Freedom Riders busy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are related to . . . rats. You know how we feel about rats. You know of our own dark history with rats. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Every time something happened in the house and neither Jazz or I wanted to rat the other person out, we would stall as best we could. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Piers was a scrawny boy with a face like a rat. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Brother Quang says, How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was those different rat, tat, tats that told the men which way to turn, how fast to march, when to load their muskets, and when to shoot. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first bat came in so silently that neither Gregor nor the preoccupied rats saw it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She aimed to cut off the rat’s head, but she missed her mark. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Temporarily bereft of his senses, he seized hold of smoldering, injured rats, some with their fur alight. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“A word scramble, maybe? Open wild rat home...Rat fort belief...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rat captains marched off to the ditch to make ready. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And yet here we were, rats getting caught up in something a lot like the People Race, and for no good reason. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But then he remembered the palace would soon be under siege by rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rat ran over his hands and hopped down the single stage step... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Now, lost in the holler, Florida said to Dallas, “You don’t think there’s any rats out here, do you?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I got there he said, “How’s their jump shot? The rats, I mean?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mig stood, blinking back tears, “’iou mean I don’t look like a princess?” she said to the rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He seemed vaguely puzzled and disappointed; he must be wondering, she thought, whether it had been worth it, just to exterminate two rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We got six copies of a book called Valley of the Dolls, and Brew hit a rat with one of them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a girl didn’t have enough hair to do the trick, she used rags, rats, or switches to fill up the insides of the ear muffs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating rats not only filled empty stomachs, it was essential to survival. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z