The rabbit, trying to gain sympathy, begs for his life, explaining how poor and sick he is.

But it was the eyes that caught you, when he wasn't staring at you like a rabbit trying to guess the make of the car about to run it over.

This watchman ignores the thugs entering the house and floodlights a rabbit trying to find a shelter-hole.

Her head tensed under my hand, and her withdrawal was as tangible as the throb of a rabbit trying to escape restricting hands.

Appearance: From the air, like a partially melted rabbit trying to eat a flying goldfish, at least for now.

See here, infant, on this tour you are the rabbit, trying to escape the fox.

His limitations as a rabbit, trying to become a more evolved life form, like the cats.

It was Fiver who was clambering over him, clawing and grabbing like a rabbit trying to climb a wire fence in a panic.

For a few seconds Ford seemed to ignore him, and stared fixedly into the sky like a rabbit trying to get run over by a car.

Swill ran in front of her worm and tried to divert it, looking a little like a rabbit trying to stop a bus.