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  • Ah, that day when I leaped upon her, down from the over - hanging tree-branch as she padded the runway!

    Chapter 21 2010

  • Claudio Papapietro for The Wall Street Journal Aidan with his tree-branch mode Many people on the Web called the Long Island teenager a "genius" who had achieved a true "breakthrough" in solar power.

    A Youngster's Bright Idea Is Something New Under the Sun Sophia Hollander 2012

  • "You really wonder about Chile supposedly being an advanced and prosperous country," says Rosa Melgalejo, who has taken refuge in a hut with a tree-branch frame and a roof made of garbage bags.

    Aid Reaches Battered Areas, Unevenly Matt Moffett 2010

  • "And one of us tired and lay down to rest," read the inscription on one headstone topped by a whimsically sculptured tree-branch.

    Pythia Peay: Finding Peace and What Really Matters at the Cemetery 2010

  • Varian recalled all too vividly a tree-branch of a spear inextricably lodged in a tyrant lizard's rib cage.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • "You really wonder about Chile supposedly being an advanced and prosperous country," says Rosa Melgalejo, who has taken refuge in a hut with a tree-branch frame and a roof made of garbage bags.

    Aid Reaches Battered Areas, Unevenly Matt Moffett 2010

  • Their simple-yet-dignified interiors center on large stone fireplaces; the only decorative flourishes are the whimsical tree-branch tangles used for staircase ­balustrades and gallery railings.

    Craftsman in the Woods 2009

  • The skies opened up shortly before the service ended, and when I finally left to walk back to the hotel, a tree-branch fell on me.

    Take That da_lj 2007

  • All the while, eyes watering, I'd be staring at a poster tacked, inelegantly, to the ceiling -- a poster that inevitably portrayed a cute but perplexed kitten clinging precipitously to a tree-branch, with an inspiring quote floating in the sky to his right.

    Rob Stafford: How to Help College Students Do Better 2008

  • During the day, they cut a tree-branch over a yard in length, walking with the stick in an upright position.

    SERIAL 6: Kondo Katsusaburo among Taiwan's Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930 Michael Turton 2008

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