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hand-carry

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I’d back the truck up to the newly framed house, put a plank across and hand-carry 20 or 30 50-pound bundles of fresh-split cedar shakes onto the roof, slatted so that the cedar could breathe because it still sought oxygen.

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Israeli and U.N. officials hand-carry cash over the border to Gaza.

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Owners manage to get some spare parts through “mules,” people who hand-carry goods into the island, but sometimes they must have parts made by hand.

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The Huntsville, Ala., resident is starting a business to personally collect ashes for others and then hand-carry them to scenic places, where they will be scattered — on video if requested.

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There is now no place in the country to read Paps, and biopsies are given to someone flying to Ethiopia to hand-carry to a hospital there.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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