And so they hung precariously over the waves and poked and peered, and found nothing.
The immediate fortunes of the Plan are precariously hanging in the balance.
A heaping cairn of round-bellied, rosy-pink earthen jars came steering past, poled by a naked statue of new copper, who balanced precariously on the edge of his hidden raft.
Each mounting the bare shoulders of a coolie, the two Europeans rode precariouslyto shore.
I was contemporaneous with the lives precariously spent between the ebb and flood of the ice ages.
The Armenians were no more precariously situated than the Albigenses under Innocent III.
The acrobatic miracle wrought by Ranga in swinging Rona's precariously hanging form inboard was the most perfect feat of strength and balance I ever saw, or ever expect to see.
That she was hurt and angry showed in every line of her tense figure, as she balanced precariously with her left foot on the outrigger and her right on the port weatherboard.
The country is precariously dependent on US and EU humanitarian grain shipments, as most other foods are priced beyond reach of the average citizen.
Foreign exchange reserves, precariously low three years ago, now total more than $19 billion.
Its talons clutched a side precariously while it fluttered its wings to sustain itself in the frail, uncertain hold it had.
A few strands of blond hair clung precariously to his head and his eyes were furious.
About thirty, Pete had fine blond hair that seemed rooted so precariously that the slightest wind might blow it away.
He coiled it, making a running loop on one end, and standing precariously on the lip of the rapids, sent it spinning toward the outcrop of rock we had chosen as a fixed point.
He was not in Forth's office, but standing precariously near the edge of a cliff.
He descended precariouslyto the vast, smooth beach.
She is precariously identified by the apologists with the Nitocris of Herodotus; and it is imagined that she may have been a daughter of Nebuchadrezzar, married to Nabunaid before the murder of Neriglissar.
Involuntarily he trembled, lost his grip and dangled precariously from the rim.
The ridge grew narrower, sheerer, and in places they had to straddle it, legs dangling precariously to left and right.
In Germany I saw the great lights of science from afar, coming into relations of intimacy only with one or two privat-docents, young men struggling precariously for a foothold.
All her days she had lived precariously near it, and lately she had visited these people, had been torn by the sight of what they endured.
No man could breast the colossal and headlong stream that seemed to break and swirl against the dim stillness in which we were precariously sheltered as if on an island.
Precariously balanced, he descended the Square again, frowning hard, his teeth set, and actually managed to swerve into King Street.
His lower lip seemed to hang precariously away from his gums.
Cranes, with steel plates hanging precariously from their jibs, staggered drunkenly to and fro on their lines, screeching as they went.
They concealed themselves behind their barricade until only the tops of their heads were visible, leaving the bandmaster perched precariously on a chair set on a couple of rather insecure boxes.
On the wet top rail, precariously perching, the figure slipped and sprawled forward in the miry yard.
A splash of snow struck the bridge of Phil's nose, spread itself and slid slowly down to the point, where it clung precariously for a moment, then lost its hold.
The great horse reappeared at the sharp angle of the path, rearing high on its hind legs, with its rider clinging precariously to its perpendicular body as he struggled frantically with the stirrups as if trying to kick free.
Men were perchedprecariously in' the ledges of the windows.
Several had been launched precariously from the experimental Brodie catapult on LST 776, “like a peanut from a slingshot.
I could see them in a line clinging precariously to the weather-rail.
Once my nerves were ruffled, I tottered precariously on the edge of tears; I wished to please, but my conscientious attitude could not tolerate overt customer hostility when I was doing my best.
It would shift precariously in a stiff wind, and a blustery day brought visions of it cartwheeling tumbleweed-style, across a street.
Moreover, Mom recalls that as a youngster Todd would ride his tricycle precariously down the hill behind our house, balancing on two wheels and cackling with enjoyment throughout the wild trip.
There are also lights over each bed and a swag dangles precariously over the foot of my bed.
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