After all, a dead rat could not crawl away by itself.
There were rats crawling all over her and you said, 'That's their nature'?
Except here was a rat crawling across his face.
She smelled as if a rat had crawled into her tunic and died.
Strapped down on the framework, with rats crawling over his chest, was a large black bird.
"The rats crawl over us, and roaches fall in our cooking pots."
At night, rats would crawl out of the thatch to warm themselves by the embers.
Wilfred and Henry fill the well, but a rat crawls out of the soil.
Montgomery described his army as "half-drowned rats crawling through a swamp".
A rat can crawl through a hole as small as half an inch, the diameter of its skull.