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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1987)
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. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)
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 ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)
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!" ❋ William Alexander Fraser (1896)
Shut your trap and get you gone down your rat-run, Thomas Bolle, and, living or dead, never dare to speak to me again. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"Trinity Street piazza was part of a street used as a rat-run, with nose-to-tail traffic travelling through it every morning and every evening belching out exhaust fumes," says Alastair Hanton of Southwark Living Streets, who nominated Clare for the award. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rube Goldberg rat-run sends a neutral balloon through dozens of Dyson bladeless fans ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Highly adept at laying ambushes to snipe and fire machine guns and rockets at their advancing foe, they then escape down the rat-run alleys, hedgerows and deep irrigation ditches that crisscross the area. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Belle Isle Street and Gladstone Street are now being used as a rat-run by some drivers travelling into Senhouse Street. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Here's a lovely little sport: Dyson engineers rendered a helium balloon neutrally buoyant and then fed it into a Mousetrap-style rat-run composed of Dyson bladeless fans, through which it bumbled and slurped and bounced, drawn through on invisible air currents. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It's become a bit of a rat-run through the estate. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A Maritime Safety Queensland spokesman has confirmed the existence of a channel with sufficient depth to enable ships to pass through - effectively creating a Reef rat-run to save time and money in their journeys. ❋ Unknown (2010)
