Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattens
Literary usage of Rattens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Romance, Vision & Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century by Jessie Laidlay Weston (1912)
"In sooth, the malt of many we mice do now destroy, And ye, ye rout of rattens,
men's clothes would rend and gnaw, If, from the court no cat came, ..."
2. Romance, Vision & Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century by Jessie Laidlay Weston (1912)
"In sooth, the malt of many we mice do now destroy, And ye, ye rout of rattens,
men's clothes would rend and gnaw, If, from the court no cat came, ..."
3. Westward ho! Or, The voyages and adventures of sir Amyas Leigh by Charles Kingsley (1855)
"Drowned like rattens!" " Now; you musn't trouble his worship any more." " Trouble ?
Let him tell till midnight, I shall be well pleased," said Amyas, ..."
4. Westward ho! Or, The voyages and adventures of sir Amyas Leigh by Charles Kingsley (1855)
"Drowned like rattens!" " Now ; you musn't trouble his worship any more." "Trouble?
Let him tell till midnight, I shall be well pleased," said Amyas, ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1857)
"... to him ' white with passion' about ' them rattens' which, according to the
passionate gardener, had totally demolished every early pea cherished by him, ..."
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