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Значения термина wharf rat на английском

The common rat, Rattus norvegicus, often used as an experimental organism.

Использование термина wharf rat на английском
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How would you know what a wharf rat looks like?
Beautiful creatures
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I told you, I wasn't wearing my spectacles and he looked just like a wharf rat runnin' through the kitchen.
Beautiful creatures
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He couldn't tell the world that Mr. Wharf Rat was a thief.
Mother West Wind's Children
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Sometimes these wharf rats are captured in the act, when fierce fights ensue.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations /...
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The Hannah was a river boat and not a dive for wharf rats.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
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Up ahead, a few old wharf rats were playing pinochle on a bench.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
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The soldiers called them " wharf rats," "sailors," "longshoremen," "cutthroats," and "gutter snipes."
History of Kershaw's Brigade / With Complete Roll of Companies, ...
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He is sometimes called the Norway Rat and sometimes the Wharf Rat and House Rat.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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He's worth half a dozen of these wharf rats.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
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W'en we drop anchor, dere was some o' da meanes' lookin' wharf rats I evah see.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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Children scampered to and fro like wharf rats.
Wizardborn
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I realize now that in those moments as we scurried aboard like wharf rats, we took wild chances.
Beyond the Vanishing Point
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Two unusually big cats and two dogs all bound to kill rats were fighting these fierce wharf rats.
Billy Whiskers' Adventures
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Nearly two thirds of the boys have been boot-blacks, the remainder mostly what are technically known as ' wharf rats.'
The Secrets of the Great City / A Work Descriptive of the Virtue...
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I wouldn't ask for anything better than a turn with these wharf rats if it weren't for the ladies.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
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One doesn't expect to be driven from his ship by wharf rats, no matter how numerous they may be.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure