"Ratting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Willie's curious discovery, as we afterwards fully learned, was this: When I took up the dead falcon, Hercus, intent upon witnessing Selta's skill at ratting, stood beside the dog as she scraped with her forefeet the shingle from the crevice through which the rat had escaped. Disappointed at losing her prize, the terrier dug and dug away at the shingle and moist sand, ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... "But his ratting changed nothing," said his companion, with an uneasy laugh; and they both struggled ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... this all-important subject. Why, only last month, at dinner at my Lord Hobanob's, a young man, who has lately been received among us, young Mr. Suckling (author of a work, I believe), began to speak lightly of Admiral Bowser's conduct for ratting to Ministers, in what I must own is the most audacious manner. But who do you think sate next and opposite to this Mr. Suckling? Why—why, next to him was Lady Grampound Bowser's daughter, and opposite to him was ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... that obstinacy, and the fear of being again accused of ratting, lead to this determination to resist when resistance is, in his ...
— A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II • Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough)
... there is some hope of his ratting too. But he'll never make a good staunch sinner; will he, Mary? You're too old to learn new ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... her? a boy who smelt of stables and wore hob-nailed boots, whose pockets were always sticky with toffee, and his handkerchiefs a disgrace to humanity, who gave his profoundest thoughts to pigeon-fancying, and his warmest affections to ratting terriers, nay, who was capable of having a live rat in his pocket at ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon |
