Portuguese
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The black rat now essayed to cross the yard to the stable.
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And then, indeed, a large black rat did enter the deadly circle.
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Down the lane two young men circled a large black rat snake.
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It was being carried in the forepaws of the largest black rat.
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Impaled upon a blade was a black rat, kicking in its agony.
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All of which explains the weirdly intense satisfaction I got from a battle last week with a giant, acrobatic, possibly bionic roof rat.
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Now I know all sorts of useful facts about roof rats.
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That was good to know, even the kindly man agreed; especially at night, when the bravos and roof rats were abroad.
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The black rat ( Rattus rattus) led the invasion in the 17th century via the ships of buccaneers, followed by the Norwegian brown.