 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...wrinkled. And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rats, lean rats, brawny rats. Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | 1849 - 564 pages
...of bacon, and cheese, and butter. Consider the many-sorted rats abo\mding in the Establishment, — "Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | 1865 - 820 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eye twinkled Like a candle-flame when salt is sprinkled • And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard...the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats,brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,... | |
 | 1846 - 534 pages
...above, and such children's stories as the ' Pied Piper of Hamelin.' We cannot refrain from an extract. ' Out of the houses the rats came tumbling ; Great rats,...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbliiig ; And the grumbling grow to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1873 - 586 pages
...he wrinkled, And greeu and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle flame when salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small ruts, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black ruts, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...him 1 ' — ' Any sum.' — A thousand guilders 1' — ' Yes.' — He played upon his pipe a tune, And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard...rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Qrcat rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 pages
...Any sum.' — A thousand guilders ? ' — ' Yes.' — He played upon his pipe a tune, And ere thrce shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard as if an army...to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rambling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Great rats, small rate, lean rats, brawny... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
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And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young... 
