• The redwoods rustle overhead, the Big Sur River gurgles behind, and hiking trails beckon.

    FORBES: California's Best Boutique Motel: Glen Oaks In Big Sur

  • Even if the authorities rustle up the money, they can ill afford to dawdle.

    ECONOMIST: The Panama canal

  • He has six weeks for it, and cannot wait for the producers to rustle up more money.

    ECONOMIST: Films and tax relief

  • I'll go and have a rustle around in 606 and see what I can come up with...

    BBC: Countdown to AC Milan v Man Utd

  • He used a mailing list of former Bridgestone customers to rustle up orders for bikes he designed himself.

    FORBES: Easy Rider

  • Pines rustle gently in the breeze and droplets of dew sparkle on the fields, reflecting watery sunlight filtering through the clouds.

    BBC: The perfect trip: Brittany and Normandy

  • Tainted by allegations of association with Osama bin Laden, they are finding it harder to rustle up international support.

    ECONOMIST: A gleam of hope for peace in miserable, war-weary Chechnya

  • The turnout for registration was so low that the government had to extend the deadline by a week to rustle up voters.

    ECONOMIST: Qatar

  • Real-time peer advice and research that might previously have taken hours to rustle up now take only seconds to locate on user-friendly PDxMD.

    FORBES: MDownload

  • For the longest while there was nothing but the mild stirring of the air, like a whispering in his ear or the rustle of woodland.

    NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'

  • Catch up on the latest news as you hear the paper rustle in the breeze before playing a round of tennis before your courtesy continental breakfast.

    BBC: Daily deal: Virginia horse country inn and spa

  • So to fill vacancies, the Oracle and the town's existing retailers have joined forces with local government and the chamber of commerce to rustle up recruits.

    ECONOMIST: The south-east

  • But the stations were slow to adopt the new radars (which could track not only the intensity but also the speed of storms), and Baron could rustle up only six buyers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Spies couldn't even rustle through the trash for clues.

    WSJ: U.S. Rolled Dice in bin Laden Raid

  • Particularly under the gun this season was Oliver Barker, a Sotheby's contemporary art auctioneer, whose marching orders were to rustle up potential buyers for 253 pieces during a day sale on Wednesday.

    WSJ: Five Scenes From a Hot Art Market

  • They are said to lack air support, which seems peculiar: if you can stream across desolate reaches of the cosmos, you should, as a rule, be able to rustle up a couple of choppers.

    NEWYORKER: Out There

  • Chela goes long on the next point before having a rustle around in his top drawer and pulling out perhaps the shot of the match, a magnificent drop-shot from about six feet behind the baseline.

    BBC: French Open day four as it happened

  • The album tells the tale of doomed romance during the city's latest gilded age: Beneath the billowing guitar atmospherics, you can detect the rustle of hedge-fund dollars, the triumphal blare of the city's new business and art-world elite.

    WSJ: The Musician and the Producer

  • On the other hand, if you guess that the rustle in the grass is the wind but it turns out to be a hungry lion, your mistake is more serious: The lion was real but you thought it wasn't (a "false negative").

    WSJ: May 21 and the Enduring Appeal of the Apocalypse

  • The striking gap between, on the one hand, the elegant polish of the narration, the silver rustle of these exquisite sentences, the poised narrowness of the social satire and, on the other hand, the screaming pain of the family violence inflicted on Patrick makes these books some of the strangest of contemporary novels.

    NEWYORKER: Noble Savages

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