The common rat, Rattus norvegicus, often used as an experimental organism.
1How would you know what a wharf rat looks like?
2I told you, I wasn't wearing my spectacles and he looked just like a wharf rat runnin' through the kitchen.
3He couldn't tell the world that Mr. Wharf Rat was a thief.
4Sometimes these wharf rats are captured in the act, when fierce fights ensue.
5The Hannah was a river boat and not a dive for wharf rats.
6Up ahead, a few old wharf rats were playing pinochle on a bench.
7The soldiers called them " wharf rats," "sailors," "longshoremen," "cutthroats," and "gutter snipes."
8He is sometimes called the Norway Rat and sometimes the Wharf Rat and House Rat.
9He's worth half a dozen of these wharf rats.
10W'en we drop anchor, dere was some o' da meanes' lookin' wharf rats I evah see.
11Children scampered to and fro like wharf rats.
12I realize now that in those moments as we scurried aboard like wharf rats, we took wild chances.
13Two unusually big cats and two dogs all bound to kill rats were fighting these fierce wharf rats.
14Nearly two thirds of the boys have been boot-blacks, the remainder mostly what are technically known as ' wharf rats.'
15I wouldn't ask for anything better than a turn with these wharf rats if it weren't for the ladies.
16One doesn't expect to be driven from his ship by wharf rats, no matter how numerous they may be.