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  • With them, being tree-dwellers, the liability of falling was an ever-present menace.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • Bonnard was jubilant when he tagged some tree-dwellers which Varian thought must be nocturnal since they didn't so much as move from their tree boles when the sled overpassed them.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • Massey is apparently content to harass the tree-dwellers with sleep deprivation and the occasional rock throw while waiting them out.

    Jerry Cope: Sounds of Silence in Appalachia: MTR Blasting Temporarily Halted 2009

  • Perhaps a film of cloned, blond, actress tree-dwellers protesting on a planet slated for demolition to build a giant sporting complex?

    Archive 2006-07-01 Mirtika 2006

  • Perhaps a film of cloned, blond, actress tree-dwellers protesting on a planet slated for demolition to build a giant sporting complex?

    Science Fiction Films On The Way Mirtika 2006

  • No AAnn would have been comfortable in a structure with only one way in and out, but humans had evolved from tree-dwellers while the ancestors of the AAnn had come up from interlocked burrows.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • In sane moments she wondered if the tree-dwellers knew this.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • Bonnard was jubilant when he tagged some tree-dwellers which Varian thought must be nocturnal since they didn't so much as move from their tree boles when the sled overpassed them.

    Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978

  • The first digits, namely, the "great toe" and the "thumb," are freely movable and opposable to the others, so that the limbs are prehensile and clasping structures; usually but not always the animals of this order are tree-dwellers in correlation with the grasping powers of the feet and hands.

    The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

  • "Maybe she was one of the original tree-dwellers, and reverted to her ancient days."

    The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley Laura Lee Hope

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