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  • He strained uphill, through the narrow gully, using his surgical-grade manipulator arms to haul himself hand-over-hand through the rough patches.

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  • How deep was this tunnel? he wondered, descending hand-over-hand.

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  • Several gangly, long-haired spider monkeys swung hand-over-hand from branch to branch above her, their curious pink faces observing her every step like spectators to a marathon.

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  • How deep was this tunnel? he wondered, descending hand-over-hand.

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  • When they move, they do so with slow deliberate hand-over-hand movements, moving along as easily under a branch as above.

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  • Several gangly, long-haired spider monkeys swung hand-over-hand from branch to branch above her, their curious pink faces observing her every step like spectators to a marathon.

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  • To move, the heads repeatedly attach and detach to the tubulin units of the microtubule track, moving everything forward in a hand-over-hand fashion.

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  • How deep was this tunnel? he wondered, descending hand-over-hand.

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  • But this feeling that something else had hold of his guts and was pulling them hand-over-hand into the past could not be good.

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  • Several gangly, long-haired spider monkeys swung hand-over-hand from branch to branch above her, their curious pink faces observing her every step like spectators to a marathon.

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