Tree Dweller

The first is Yves Coppens, who, with his staff, reached the conclusion that “Lucy was a typical tree-dweller and did not walk erect at all.” ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

But no foot bones were found with her skeleton, so researchers have puzzled over whether she walked like modern people or was a blend of ground- and tree-dweller. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You look to be of some importance, despite the fact that you ride with only a dam with hair nigh as red as fire and a worthless tree-dweller. ❋ Richard A. Knaak (2009)

And as she saw, she was lifted further into a strange appreciation and shyness of the female body, that banshee with its throat sounds and wet center and locked jaw and tree-dweller toes. ❋ Meg Wolitzer (2005)

This tree-dweller, Kaz knew, had seen more years pass than several generations of minotaurs. ❋ Knaak, Richard A. (2004)

Saalahan's contribution was a stubby-legged two-meter long tree-dweller that looked like a giant nude mink, which Teal expertly gutted and filleted. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

It was no tree-dweller but a beast bred on great plains and gaunt mountains. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1974)

The Freudians would say that he is the primitive unconscious, the tree-dweller in us. ❋ Alexander Sutherland Neill (1928)

There was not a single tree-dweller in sight except the first wounded man, and he was already crawling as fast as he could up the bluff. ❋ Lucy Fitch Perkins (1901)

For $20 anyone can restock any bit of woods with the most companionable and most beautiful tree-dweller that nature has given us. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

What must he have had to contend with as a cave-dweller, as a tree-dweller, as a river-drift man! ❋ John Burroughs (1879)