When the King awoke in the early morning, he found that a wet but thoughtful rat had crept into the place during the night and made a cosy bed for itself in his bosom.

"There are bad things in there" - From Mr Bunnsy Has An Adventure Far below Maurice's paws, the rats were creeping through the undertown of Bad Blintz.

Any rats or roaches creep in here, Janet Marco thought, they better be able to live on scouring powder, ammonia water, and wax.

Mortally wounded, the twisty rat was creeping for some burrow where he could die.

There were images of 'fierce, sharp-toothed badgers', 'crows which picked at the dead animals on the road', 'fat, black rats that hid in the hay' and 'red foxes creeping behind the hen coop'.

A black rat crept out of the left sleeve and scuttled away in search of cheese.

With a nose twitching maniacally, the rat crept forward, peered furtively up into the barge.

There, she had to keep the kitchen door closed at night for fear that the rats would creep into her bedroom.

The rats and spiders would creep in and get active as the night wore on, and above there would be flashing lights, the tracers beaming across the sky, identifying the crisscross path of a distant firefight.