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  • In 1924, Franz Kafka wrote The Burrow, a harrowing and unfinished story told in the first person by a mole-like creature that has spent its life completing a burrow with labyrinthine passages and many rooms.

    From Hitler to Gaddafi: dictators and their bunkers 2011

  • Nicky Loh for the Wall Street Journal The spice paste, buah keluak, meat, beef stock and tamarind water are simmered together for at least 15 minutes to make a mole-like sauce.

    In Malcolm Lee's Kitchen 2011

  • Whackas are sentient blue mole-like creatures that live on the west side of Mt. Rugged, near the shore of Keelhaul Hey, and near Downtown of Crag.

    Whacka | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • The whole conversation about race has turned into a rigged game of Whac-a-Mole where every time you hit a mole with your tethered mallet, the mole declares, "I'm not actually a mole, and how dare you use such a horrible label to describe me and my mole-like actions, appearance and affiliations."

    Tina Dupuy: Living in a 'Post-Racist' Society 2010

  • He blinks mole-like into the dark, sensing we are watching, and he must give one final performance before he is swallowed by the darkness.

    Krapp's Last Tape 2010

  • Can anyone identify this giant mole-like animal my dog found?

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • The Newark-born writer and director has become the Garden State's poet anti-laureate ever since "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and its mole-like junior-high-schooler, Dawn Weiner, arrived on the screen in 1995.

    Growing Up and Out of the Garden State 2010

  • But both of us felt the rojo salsa which costs 25 cents extra deserved a rave: It was thick and flavorful, and complex enough that it seemed almost mole-like.

    Taco Underground? Toki folks pop up on H Street NE Lavanya Ramanathan 2010

  • The whole conversation about race has turned into a rigged game of Whac-a-Mole where every time you hit a mole with your tethered mallet, the mole declares, "I'm not actually a mole, and how dare you use such a horrible label to describe me and my mole-like actions, appearance and affiliations."

    Tina Dupuy: Living in a 'Post-Racist' Society 2010

  • Can anyone identify this giant mole-like animal my dog found?

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

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