The second was just ahead of it, cunningly placed so that if an unaware intruder happened to miss the first one, he or she would almost certainly step on the second.

I can even fancy a nightmare tale in which the victim, overcome by chloroform, which the killer has cunningly placed in the after-shave lotion, is strangled leisurely with dental floss.

But the greenish brilliance from cunningly placed reflectors stopped him in his tracks.

It's equipped with one of those everlasting logs, steel disguised as birch with four cunningly placed gas jets beneath.

On a farther slope cunningly placed by the scenic artist to catch the full sunlight of midday, the camp of the Chavez brothers gleamed softly in the magic light.

Like a series of cunningly placed mirrors, they offer glimpses of this central predicament from different angles.

Others have been cunningly placed aboard the yacht as members of the crew.

All about were hill forts, cunningly placed, and before the great wall was a deep valley with a steep counterscarp, and bristling with chevaux-de-frise.

And in the magic mirrors we had placed cunningly, to reflect those that were otherwise unseen, we beheld no breath or trace of any image.

Recycled bottles have been reworked into mismatched water glasses, which hold napkins cunningly placed to suggest the horns of a springbok, kudu or some such.