The rustic hermit and philosopher, Patience, and Marcasse the rat-catcher, in. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
"He's a lucky boy, " the rat-catcher would boast to his friends as he tossed Sharpe a farthing. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
Why else do you think one can play a body-snatcher or a political pamphleteer or a rat-catcher?. From Wordnik.com. [Appoggiatura] Reference
He destroyed a great many rats in Phrygia, and was probably the first "rat-catcher to the King.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829] Reference
An hour elapsed, and then the rat-catcher galloped up the cellar stairs and leaped into the store. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
He was imprisoned, however, for two years and in 1855 could do no better than serve his community as rat-catcher. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Perhaps in time they will learn to employ the python as a rat-catcher, for the python is not surpassed for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Is there no one in a district that once echoed with the praise of her charities -- no one to tell where she resided, but Hill, the old rat-catcher?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
I saw him once and he looked like the rat-catcher in. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"It was decided to engage a professional rat-catcher.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914] Reference
Gray compares poet-laureate to a rat-catcher, 204, 205. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
The Independent Bangladesh's king rat-catcher kills 83,000 - 7 hrs ago. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
To be sure, it is still possible that you may be a stay-maker, or a rat-catcher. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
Folklore has assimilated the figure of the Pied Piper with that of a rat-catcher. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
"I ought to have remembered that Erik talked to me about the rat-catcher," said the Persian. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom of the Opera] Reference
'When he came back to the bar, after he'd changed into those rat-catcher clothes,' said Leggatt. From Wordnik.com. [A Diversity of Creatures] Reference
I have to give orders about my new bridle and saddle-cloth, and speak to the rat-catcher about his dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
He then took up the employment of rat-catcher, for which, perhaps, he was better qualified than any other. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
I have to give orders about my new bridle and saddle-cloth, and speak to the rat-catcher about his dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
Pat Coxe -- yet O'Blaney said you was as fond and proud of having informers about you as a rat-catcher is of rats. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 08] Reference
Why she did so could only be guessed: perhaps she had seen more than the rat-catcher, but she never said anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Coast] Reference
From latest advices this annoyance still exists and a fortune therefore awaits a good London rat-catcher in Dawson. From Wordnik.com. [From Paris to New York by Land] Reference
A Southcote family is still being plagued by vermin and said it cannot afford to pay for the council's rat-catcher. From Wordnik.com. [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference
Mr, Carew, to satisfy liim of Iiis usefulness, told liim he was a rat-catcher, a mendicant, and a dog-merchant. —. From Wordnik.com. [The surprising adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the beggars, containing his life--a dictionary of the cant language and many entertaining particulars of that extraordinary man] Reference
An 'I thought first I'd ha' ferrets an 'dogs, an' be a rat-catcher; an 'then I thought as I should like a bigger way. From Wordnik.com. [The Mill on the Floss] Reference
A 48. 5\% plunge in adjusted profit for 2008 has persuaded royal rat-catcher Rentokil to do away with the final dividend. From Wordnik.com. Reference
R.A., and Sir David Wilkie, 3; the rat-catcher with the ferret, 76; his dog Prinny, 96, 97; paints Odell's old donkey, 277. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
A disparate team of a rogue CDC doctor, rat-catcher and an Eastern European pawnshop owner come together to try to stop them. From Wordnik.com. [ReadersRead.com Book Blog] Reference
Rentokil fell 0.15 to 94.8 after the rat-catcher announced that the departure of the boss of its parcel delivery arm, City Link. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Queen Victoria would not have hesitated: at the first hint of rats she would have a flunky despatched to fetch the rat-catcher pronto. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
He used to quote the criticism of a celebrated country rat-catcher, on the study he had made from him, with hearty triumph and delight. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
Arcadian old bee-keeper, the rat-catcher -- all these and their companions are woven into one piece by the genius of their creator, Borrow. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference
I'm a piper, not a rat-catcher, you understand, but just a simple singer of sad songs, and a mad singer of merry ones. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship] Reference
Bangladesh's king rat-catcher kills 83,000. From Wordnik.com. [Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat] Reference
It makes one believe in the old fable of the rat-catcher. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Northern Light] Reference
"They flew down at once to the rat-catcher and made their proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men] Reference
"'You're a dead man,' growled Flaps to the rat-catcher, as soon as he got up to the loft. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men] Reference
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