How To Use Rat-catcher In A Sentence
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We need to be problem solvers, like rat-catchers and firemen.
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Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins.
A Wanderer in Holland
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Possibly his first little wolfish howl (for it would be monstrous to think that he or even Remus condescended to a _vagitus_ or cry such as a young tailor or rat-catcher might emit) may have symphonized with the ear-shattering trumpet that proclaimed the inauguration of the first
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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A few years ago, Owen, from Glusburn, would have been called the rat-catcher.
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Carew's restless disposition took him to Newfoundland, and on his return he successfully played the parts of a nonjuring clergyman, dispossessed of his living for conscience 'sake; a Quaker -- here is a good example of his wonderful gift -- in an assembly of Quakers; a ruined miller; a rat-catcher; and, having borrowed three children from a tinker, a
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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It is equally attractive to rats and is often used by rat-catchers to bait their traps.
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You're a semi-skilled mechanic, just like the municipal rat-catcher, on piecework.
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Whether discussing sewer scavengers or dustmen, beggars or prostitutes, he would begin by carefully noting their physical appearance and often idiosyncratic garb: The rat-catcher's dress is usually a velveteen jacket, strong corduroy trousers, and laced boots.
Sociology most Dickensian
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Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins.
A Wanderer in Holland
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You're a semi-skilled mechanic, just like the municipal rat-catcher, on piecework.
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Well, this compositional choice surely started with the rhetorical opposition between the local rat-catchers and the western scientists.
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He had a burning ambition to be a rat-catcher at an early age.
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And we're good rat-catchers, which is a useful skill in the White House.
Al Eisele: Doggone It, Why Not a White House Cat?