Hares going to ground, he supposed . . . or rats off to nibble the queen's cheese.

The rat nibbled pensively at the plum cake, bright beady eyes fixed on the Major.

People were even afraid to doze For fear the rats would nibble their toes!

'They say rats have been nibbling at the tubes.'

In frustrated hunger, the rat nibbled and chewed the silk bindings away from Casca's arms and while trying to digest his silk meal, became a meal himself for a family of snakes in the sleeper's crotch.

(The rat nibbled the clothes of the Roman King, and the angry Queen tore the rest.)

Before that, it was moldering in the writer's house in East Canaan, Conn. "The rats had been nibbling on it," his son said.

And the rats nibbled at the wrappings, and the men twitched and jerked in their sleep.

No, rats would have nibbled crust and all, and never lifted it up and scooped out the fruit.