The fat, sleek rats erupted out of the mound, fleeing in all directions, scuttling away from Sammy but also swarming around him, over his shoes and between his legs.

Several sleek rats sat up on their haunches to see what had arrived among them, but they were too bold to be scared off.

As we drew closer, I could see that she was whispering endearments and repeatedly kissing what turned out to be a mature, sleek, brown rat.

It was a huge, sleek fat female rat, already pregnant by the looks of things.

Grottle said, reach- ing into the cage to stroke the sleek fat rat.

Several nomes had sleek rats on leads.

The sleek brown rat jumped onto the table; not much of a feat; it was only about a foot and a half from the ground.

A large, sleek rat was lunching up on Trask's leg.

"He was a big, sleek Mexican rat."

Carts pulled by sleek, cream-colored rats, and one dainty chariot that had more than a dozen white mice tied to it.