rat-trap

Secrets intact I skip out the door into my rat-trap conveyance and with lights blinking red all around me roar off.

August « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

The foremost was naked to the waist, with braided hair hanging to his belt, and what looked like a tail of coonskin round his brows; the face beneath it was a nightmare of hooked nose and rat-trap mouth crossed by stripes of yellow paint.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Now to someone unfamiliar with the spatially-challenged nature of New York City geography, the comparison of a couple of blocks and a couple of miles might seem like just a bit too much but remember this: two blocks is all it takes to turn a Williamsburg loft into an East Williamsburg rat-trap.

Ajay Singh Chaudhary: The "Mosque Affair," or, Far and Away the Country's Most Ridiculous Controversy 2010

Now to someone unfamiliar with the spatially-challenged nature of New York City geography, the comparison of a couple of blocks and a couple of miles might seem like just a bit too much but remember this: two blocks is all it takes to turn a Williamsburg loft into an East Williamsburg rat-trap.

Ajay Singh Chaudhary: The "Mosque Affair," or, Far and Away the Country's Most Ridiculous Controversy 2010

It was a strong face, but mean; even the rat-trap mouth had an odd lift at one side which, with the ever-shifting eyes, made it look as though he knew some secret joke about you.

Watershed 2010

Secrets intact I skip out the door into my rat-trap conveyance and with lights blinking red all around me roar off.

john bennett | two for a day « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

But the rat-trap mouth was still the same, and that unwinking half-blue half-brown eye boring into me.

Fiancée 2010

And these houses are right next to the rat-trap shacks and trailers the line-workers live in; Marie Antoinette drives right past the peasants, here in Arkansas, in her shiny red Beamer.

Archive 2009-07-01 delagar 2009

Hence, on their view, necessarily (that is, in every possible world in which it exists), a rat-brained creature, say, caught in a rat-trap will experience, well, whatever it's like to be a rat caught in a rat-trap.

Behe: ID rescues Common Descent 2007

And these houses are right next to the rat-trap shacks and trailers the line-workers live in; Marie Antoinette drives right past the peasants, here in Arkansas, in her shiny red Beamer.

Cheap Crap delagar 2009