Meanings of brown rat in English

At first I regarded him as merely an ordinary intrusive brown rat.

Appearances were undoubtedly against the brown rat, but it knew something of tactics.

As he crept beneath it, he heard the brown rat scream.

The trek was headed by an old brown rat.

If so, you don't know the cruel devil of perseverance that is the brown rat.

A brown rat stepped out into the light.

The barn owl's favourite prey is, he tells us, the brown rat and the wood mouse.

It was supposed by Pallas that the brown rat crossed over into Russia about the year 1727.

As he sat back, the curves softened, and, as far as brown rat could be, he was imposing.

He is a brown rat.

Last year the first victim of climate change was the Bramble Cay melomys known as the little brown rat.

I have no doubt that this also is the case with the brown rat, and aids in keeping down its numbers.

At a sudden shrieking I whirled: half a dozen wailing cats hurled themselves about my feet and fled after a brown rat.

The brown rat of India is identical with that of Europe, most naturalists being now agreed that it originally came from the East.

The black rats dashed into the hole like flickering streaks, but the brown rat had instantly spun upon himself, and was after them.

Firstly, the brown rat, having hidden up in some black corner, with brown-rat cunning, came hopping out instantly-nay ,charging- ontheblackrat's trail.