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Inman's comic rabbit-holes may seem random, but so often his "guides" are well-researched -- and the Seattle web designer has an uncanny knack for that just right word.
The 'Riffs Interview: 12 Secrets of the insanely viral 'OATMEAL' creator Matthew Inman 2011
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How else can you reasonably hack your way through that big-ass thicket of a manuscript without falling down any number of rabbit-holes?
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Billy Mernit, Part 2 2008
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But like so many other investigations of Halliburton, that one also seems to have disappeared into one of the kleptocracy's many rabbit-holes.
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Here was beautiful cantering ground, without much furze or many rabbit-holes, and lovely air flowing over green waves of land, to greet and to deepen the rose upon young cheeks.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Pleasance, and they could hear one say to the rest, “We shall never find them to-night among all these squirting funnels, squirrel cages, and rabbit-holes; but if we light not on them before we reach the farther end, we will return, and mount a guard at the entrance, and so secure them till morning.”
Kenilworth 2004
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He remembers the drains on the different farms in which the hunted animal may possible take refuge, and has a memory even for rabbit-holes.
Hunting Sketches 2004
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And they walked on among the bracken, knee-high already, between the rabbit-holes and the oak-trees, talking of Jolly.
In Chancery 2004
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I don't want people stumbling around break-ing ankles in rabbit-holes or running into an alicorn and getting skewered.
Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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Her horse obediently followed the other three, taking care not to step into any rabbit-holes!
Five Go To Mystery Moor Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1954
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He got as tired as everyone else, running over the hills all day, scrabbling at scores of rabbit-holes, chasing dozens of remarkably fleet-footed rabbits.
Five Go To Mystery Moor Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1954
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