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If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat,
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Hassop again smashed into the Barrier, fell, crawled, and regained his feet to dart off again like a cornered rat,
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Yes | No | Report from Jim in Mo wrote 40 weeks 2 days ago platte river rat,
The Six Best Lever Action Rifles (and When to Use Them) 2007
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Yes | No | Report from Jim in Mo wrote 40 weeks 2 days ago platte river rat,
The Six Best Lever Action Rifles (and When to Use Them) 2007
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No idiom is more metaphorical than slang: devisser le coco (to unscrew the nut), to twist the neck; tortiller (to wriggle), to eat; etre gerbe, to be tried; a rat,
Les Miserables 2008
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The contents next morning still lay By the stiffening corpse of a curious rat,
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The contents next morning still lay By the stiffening corpse of a curious rat,
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· Back feet larger than 30 mm: Black rat, Norway rat,
11. Rodent pests 1996
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Denny Drady was skinny to start with — now, the strain of getting us through the minefield had begun to take its toll and he looked like the proverbial drowned rat,
Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992
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Suppose he wasn't trained to hunt, and never killed a rat,
The Dog's Book of Verse Various
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