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12 Arnold Grove, Merseyside.
A terrified rat will swear to anything.
I had a tame rat when I was a boy, and I loved that animal as only a boy would love an old water-rat
Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?
The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.
You're not suggesting that Vetinari tucks into a nice rat every day?" said Angua.
"I've heard he uses rats as spies, so I don't think he'd use them as elevenses," said Carrot.
Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet!
And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here. Windham
Rockaway? That's my special place with Gage - was anyway. Now it'll 'forever' be marked with gluttony and vomit - sounds about right.
Ulick Norman Owen.
Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.
On the Jellicoe road
Gilly Gilleshpee
Don't worry, Xavier's on the job," said Sharon. We heard a squeak and looked down to see the rat in question with a piece of cheese in its mouth. Sharon picked him up and scolded him. "Keys, I said, not cheese!
He ... " Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."
Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.
A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom
Rook. You fit me. When I saw you crouching in that stairwell last week I felt like I knew you. You stopped me dead in my tracks, you wiped my mind.
Rat-a-tat-tat."
"Quack."Quack-- Kate Angell
Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.
What if the rat returns? I donna think ye'd want to be lying flat on the pallet if he does."
She swatted at him. "That's why I have you and my dagger to protect me."
"Me, aye. Your dagger, nae so much.
One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.
The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me!
We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it
I'm a rat,' Robert said. 'I'm not going into a reptile's mouth.'
Oh boy. Fine time to develop phobias
Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
Can it be the old devil's house? I've heard he has a house in North London.
Cottage is the palace of humble man!
A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.
I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It was a huge brown bastard; had a body like a turd with legs and beady black eyes full of secret rat knowledge.
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.
He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.
Walking into Nova Hollywood, I remembered why I didn't come here more often. I like a good slice of cheese as much as the next guy, but this place would be too cheesy for a giant mutant rat who had been starving for a week.
Be the person your pet rat thinks you are!
I'm a bloody Crank!
You saying killing a rat would be murder?" said Raufman.
"Yes. Of course."
"But it's just - "
"Talk to the paw, mister, 'cos the whiskers don't want to know!
Also, for the record, only one of us has actually been a rat - and you'll note he's not the one crying.
What is that?" I ask.
"It's my dog."
"No. No, I have dogs. Dogs are descended from wolves. That's descended from a rat." I look again. "An ugly rat.
Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.
A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.
Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.
Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?
Tritons Trident!
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Anne of Windy Poplars
KATH: (Katherine) BRENT, daughter of Ed: Brent, dee'd., 300 acs. Northumberland Co., N.E. upon Quiough 421 Riv., S.E. upon land of Capt. Giles Brent. 9 Dec. 1662, p. 79, (554). (Capt. Gyles Brent, 4 May 1653, assigned to sd. Edm: Brent & by him given by will to sd. Kath.)
The family crest of none other than Professor James Moriarty." The very name filled me with fear, and my trousers with something that was certainly not fear.
The word was out that Royal Barnes was huntin' Kilkenny," somebody commented. "He was kin to the Webers, you know. Half-brother, I think.
Whose house is that, Constable?
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
What in the bloody hell are you?"
"Andrea Nash," I said. "This is my associate, Robin of Loxley.
Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
Where is Richard, do you know?"
"Chopping onions on the back step. Oh, you mean Master Richard? Upstairs. Eating. Where's anybody?
I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
I'm a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It's too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels - the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.
Have a biscuit, Potter.
Non ... Gratum ... Anum ... Ro - ' I can't make that out." "Rodentum," Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. "Dog Latin," Bosch told him. "Not worth a rat's ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam.
Squirrel as in squirrel squirrel?
Robin Hood just called, he wants Sherwood Forest back.
Renfield, my ass. What I had on my hands was a Van Helsing.
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.
You know every alley in my mind, every broken bottle and rat scuttling in there.
pocket lizard licker.
It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.
THE GRACKLE
The
He can kick as hard as he wants but he cannot destroy what is inside. I have a strong spirit and the Rat will never take that away from me, no matter what he does.
-Matt
Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.
I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Sir Christopher Wren's Cathedral
Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him.
Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said.
"Rubbish and you know it."
-Anthony to Violet
What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
Scar. I still don't know his real name. The man's like Beetlejuice... or hell, maybe he's Voldemort. He's fucking Bloody Mary. Don't dare say his name or he might show up.
The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead."
"Ding dong, the witch is dead,
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
SANE ASYLUM Ed Shank
Having travelled and lived and worked in many different places, I was keen to come back and settle in Nottingham, partly because my family are here, but also because Nottingham is such a vibrant city.
He [Mr. Snagsby] is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity.
Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the
the cottage lights
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
Huntleigh's (Yes, I gave them a cheesy couple name in my mind)
Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.
Kitty, The "Secret Annexe
Rats live on no evil star
Sir McHotpants Von Grabby Hands
One day I'll sneak a few drops of rat poison into that seed you love so much.
Magnus Bane. The Ultimate Traitor.
Not my favorite nickname. I prefer, "Our Lord and Master" or maybe "Unambiguously the Hottest.