rottens

The "restless rottens" and mice need little introduction.

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

Dandie Dinmont, in "Guy Mannering," speaking of his terriers, says, "I had them a 'regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi 'stots and weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever comes wi 'a hairy skin on't."

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

It looked, by all the world, like a grave, and me buried alive within it; till the rottens came out of their holes to lick the blood, and whisked about like wee evil spirits.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

It looked, by all the world, like a grave, and me buried alive within it; till the rottens came out of their holes to lick the blood, and whisked about like wee evil spirits.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

I had them a 'regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi 'stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi 'a hairy skin on't.'

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

I had them a 'regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi 'stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi 'a hairy skin on't.'

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

I had them a 'regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi 'stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi 'a hairy skin on't.'

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801