I couldn't tell, riding in the opposite lane, whether that was a scrap of squirrel or maybe a weasel or wood-rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damp] Reference

Forgotten was the stale wood-rat as he followed the new trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

Near her was a high pile of branches and leaves, the home of a wood-rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Californians] Reference

He rolled up his sleeve, got down on his knees, and shoved his arm into a wood-rat burrow at the base of the pyramid.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

As I walked farther, I tested my weight, pressing into a desiccated sponge of buried wood-rat droppings and cactus needles.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Then the drifting shadow of a huge butterfly attracted his attention, and soon he was nosing through the jungle on the trail of a wood-rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

But it was a wood-rat burrow, and I figured rodents had already been churning up the record, probably denning in coils of baskets down there.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Before her, here and there, little night creatures fled -- a humped-up raccoon, dazzled by the glare, a barred owl still struggling with its wood-rat kill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaming Jewel] Reference

A wood-rat, or a man, or a boy — all in the softest of sounds that were scarcely more than breath-exhalations, all monosyllables, a veritable shorthand of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XVI] Reference

At that day there existed in Oregon in vast numbers a species of wood-rat, and our inspection of the graveyard showed that the canoes were thickly infested with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete] Reference

THE wood-rat is a very curious animal, they are not half the size of the domestic rat; of a dark brown or black colour; their tail slender and shorter in proportion, and covered thinly with short hair; they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference

So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long - since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

There are living sounds, too, such as are never heard under other conditions: notes of strange night-birds, the cries of small animals in sudden encounters with stealthy foes or in their dreams, a rustling in the dead leaves -- it may be the leap of a wood-rat, it may be the footfall of a panther.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Such Things Be]

1 The wood-rat (Neotoma floridana), unknown to science until thus discovered by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

1 The two species of native wood-rat: that with a smooth tail, Neotoma floridana; that with a bushy tail, N.cinerea. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

A most destructive little animal, the wood-rat, infests the country, and generally nestles in the crevices of the rocks, but prefers still more human habitations; they domicile under the floors of out-buildings, and not content with this, force their way into the inside, where they destroy and carry off every thing they can; nor is there any way of securing the property in the stores from their depredations but by placing it in strong boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference

Opossum (wood-rat) -- 251.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

I'm as poor as a wood-rat. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference

Jerry, alert to his toes to listen, by an alteration in the quantity or quality of his whuff, would tell Nalasu that he did not hear; next, that he did hear; and, perhaps finally, that it was a strange dog, or a wood-rat, or a man, or a boy -- all in the softest of sounds that were scarcely more than breath-exhalations, all monosyllables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 17] Reference

And Jerry, alert to his toes to listen, by an alteration in the quantity or quality of his whuff, would tell Nalasu that he did not hear; next, that he did hear; and, perhaps finally, that it was a strange dog, or a wood-rat, or a man, or a boy -- all in the softest of sounds that were scarcely more than breath-exhalations, all monosyllables, a veritable shorthand of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference