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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

  • 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

  • But like so many other investigations of Halliburton, that one also seems to have disappeared into one of the kleptocracy's many rabbit-holes.

    Charlie Cray: Fat Tuesday for Halliburton 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • And they walked on among the bracken, knee-high already, between the rabbit-holes and the oak-trees, talking of Jolly.

    In Chancery 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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