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The air in this rat-run, normally distasteful to Eustace, who never took the Tube, was rapidly becoming fetid, and he at once decided that he would rather brave all the shrapnel of all the anti-aircraft guns defending him than stay where he was.
On Forsyte 'Change 2004
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But she was jerked from the rat-run of her thoughts by a sound that came to her clearly in spite of the surf and wind: the heavy crack of a pistol-shot.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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We dug and they dug, each side laboring everlastingly to find the other's listening places and to blow them up by means of mining, so that the earth became a very rat-run.
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909
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After he had welcomed me effusively he led us through a rat-run maze of streets to a good-sized house with snub-nosed lions carved on the stone doorposts and a lot of other marks of both
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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He swept a hand out toward the Pindaris in the street that were like a pack of wolves: "Up the hill -- surround the palace! and guard every window and rat-run!"
Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896
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Shut your trap and get you gone down your rat-run, Thomas Bolle, and, living or dead, never dare to speak to me again.
The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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I can't be the only student of east London's transmogrification over the past 30 years to suspect that this has the makings of a calamitous hostage to fortune, on the principle that a thoroughfare fondly christened "Rosebud Lane" by a municipal highways and byways department is practically guaranteed to turn into a urine-soaked drug baron's rat-run in the space of a month.
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Mr Quirk said he did not doubt fishermen's accounts that they saw at least one bulk carrier a day using what they called rat-run shortcuts through the reef.
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Mr Quirk said he did not doubt fishermen's accounts that they saw at least one bulk carrier a day using what they called rat-run shortcuts through the reef.
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But I live out of choice on a metropolitan rat-run, and am existing for two months in a haze of MDF dust while an extension is being built.
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