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• “A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.”

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• “Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall.”

  Archive 2005-12-01

• “47 The image of the child in utero as fruit hanging precariously from a tree extended back to Galen, as Constantinus believed. 48 While Aldobrandino's passage and metaphor attributed a considerable amount of agency to the fruit-fetus (note the active voice), most discussions of fetal growth and parturition portrayed the fetus as entirely passive.”

  A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

• “The lighting setup was four ceiling lights (two warm white incandescent and two daylight energy saving) with one fluorescent desk lamp for right-side illumination and a large halogen standing lamp (titled precariously and propped up by random furniture) at 45 deg which was the illumination source from the left and also the brightest of the lot.”

  Anime Nano!

• “Much of it had been stored, quite precariously, in plastic jugs at three separate warehouses in Tripoli suburbs.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Bronner: Civil War (Hold the Mustard...)

• “The tide is going out and there are plenty of rocks to turn over, and after only 10 minutes, the youngest, precariously balanced on a boulder near the jetty, calls us over excitedly.”

  The Guardian: Diary of a separation

• “A weathered brown house hangs precariously out over a creek, an enormous chunk of soil underneath chewed away by floodwaters.”

  The Huffington Post: Rochester, Vermont Hit Hard By Irene

• “Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal A crew member precariously stands on top of a ladder to adjust lights before Charlotte Ronson's Fall 2011.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Backstage at New York Fashion Week

• “He rowed back to the island and loaded the boat which was now precariously low in the water.”

  Fictionaut: Working Title: "Third Persons"

• “We see him Wells airily discarding, or melting down, all those props and guard rails on which the population of this crowded and precariously conditioned island have been accustomed to rely...”

  The Huffington Post: Franz-Stefan Gady: H.G. Wells and Defending the "Restoration Doctrine"

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