rat

My grandfather, especially when eating, had a ratlike appearance: a face of twitching whiskers and sharpened incisors, jaw working methodically, nose poised to sniff.

Ah Sin, on the other hand, was portrayed as a sinister creature with feline features and a ratlike queue, a version of the stereotypical Chinese character who would appear in later stories, plays and early movies--a sinister, perhaps even evil and certainly untrustworthy alien who served for decades as a foil of frontier melodrama.

Human terms are generally used, except for Billycan and Killdeer, who are described as loathsomely ratlike. This first novel has a satisfying but open-ended conclusion, promising a sequel.

The illustration by Kuoch features a group of eight mice dressed as city dwellers who are staring straight up, presumably facing the fourteen-story Admiral Francis Drake Hotel in the Depression-era Brooklyn of "The Hollow Men." These are not cute Disneyesque mousecatoons, but hardcore urban rodents with mean, dull, ratlike faces--perfect representatives of Wolfe's "Standard Concentrated Blotters." Depending on one's interpretation of the artwork, the vacuous vermin are watching "C.

Colin plans on retribution, assembling old friends with tempers as nasty as his own: cold-eyed gambler Meredith (Ian McShane), who happens to be gay; ratlike Mal (Stephen Dillane); sadistic sexagenarian Old Man Peanut (John Hurt); and Archie (Tom Wilkinson), Colin's best friend and seemingly the nicest of the lot, even if he's also all for beating Loverboy to an inert pulp.

Well, let us explain this funny "tail," one most likely with a skinny, ratlike ending, and not a flat, wide one.

Ashley Green suffered a severe allergic reaction to the tiny ratlike rodent named Sydney when he tried to stop him escaping from their home.

AT LEAST Imogen was boring in a quiet, pretty way rather than in a loud, ratlike way.