| 单词 | cobwebby |
| 例句 | James and Maybeth and Sammy pulled at the honeysuckle on the side near the barn, while Dicey explored the cobwebby barn inside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was afternoon before we sat down at the dining-room table under a cobwebby gasolier. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I discover two bedrooms, both under a thick layer of dust, one with a figure lying under a cobwebby shroud on the bed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “If we set foot in there, they’ll throw us in those cobwebby rooms and lock the doors.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “You got a dusty cobwebby attic up there?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Some people would lock us up in a cobwebby basement for hollering.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The same fabric spilled from a long black cutaway, seams visible and splitting; was transformed into an abstract bolero atop cobwebby black lace; and got spliced with zebra stripes, old damask and brocade. What Do Women Need Now? 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z If the toys are not sold today, Abracadabra threatens, they will be "put into storage" – a dark, cobwebby prospect overseen by the predatory bird himself. Season's readings: The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden 2010-12-02T10:25:00Z Yet when a touring version set up cobwebby shop Off Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in 2001, it managed fewer than 50 performances. Review: The Comforts of the Cozy Scare in ‘The Woman in Black’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Photograph: Leeds Art Gallery The web's masterly role as a broom to sweep through all the north's cobwebby art lairs continues, with fresh pictures added for summer to Yorkshire's Favourite Paintings. Northern artworks bask in the online sunshine 2011-08-08T17:20:04Z The sky seems endless in this part of the world: gray-glazed in stormy weather, shrouded in cobwebby mist on early mornings, majestically shimmering in summer twilight. 'The Tree': This sad tale will grow on you 2011-08-11T20:58:04Z Singing standards with forthright sweetness and hardly a jot of flowery affectation, Ms. Haden creates a serene foil for Mr. Motian’s brushwork, with its cobwebby flutter. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z His cheeky call to arms was soon taken up by alternative labels like Obesity and Speed and Raquel Allegra, whose spring lines incorporated frayed-looking, cobwebby knits, and ultimately by the mainstream. Shredding as a Signpost of Fashion?s Future? 2010-08-11T23:44:00Z In an interview, as on her feed, she urges followers to ditch cobwebby notions of how a woman her age should dress. The Glamorous Grandmas of Instagram 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In the course of a long evening we were diverted by a clump of dancing, cobwebby bugs behind the refrigerator and a "hello sailor" interlude of knock-kneed sea scouts, among others. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z Traditionally, Miss Havisham is presented as a dusty figure enrobed in cobwebby lace. Olivia Colman on her "Great Expectations" for Miss Havisham: “There's such darkness inside her" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z This strategy tends to scratch at the cobwebby corners of triviagoers’ brains, inspiring fact recall for things people didn’t even realize they remembered. Seattle ‘Jeopardy!’ winners bring fresh perspective to Seattle trivia scene with Head in the Clouds 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The idea was to protect the cork from mold or nibbling critters during the years a bottle was stored in a cobwebby cellar. Wine bottle foil is wasteful, annoying — and going away 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z But most people are expected to resort to the cobwebby basements of apartment buildings — or to the subway. Ukrainians Set Sights on the New Year, Not a New War 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Labouls are also quite unusual among fungi in that they never manufacture a mycelium, a cobwebby body that is a nearly universal fungal trait. These Bizarre Parasites Garden Their Insect Hosts 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z It was cobwebby inside, a bit of a crime scene. Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z To capture the attention of a younger market, the Fisher Project incorporates edgier materials, such as cobwebby knits and leather. Eileen Fisher opens new concept store in L.A. 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Valves of the capsule cobwebby on the edges. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z I could now look within and see a magical tangle of yellow anthers delicately draped with cobwebby ropes of pollen. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Assisted by a complement of ghastly spooks imported from Japanese shockers like “The Grudge,” “Woman” updates, if barely, the genre’s cobwebby 19th-century atmosphere, screeching music cues and sinister-looking ghost children. Radcliffe Hears Dead People Talking in ‘Woman in Black’: Review 2012-02-03T08:18:39Z He dragged it down with him on to the floor and bit into the wet, cobwebby material. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z "No," said Val; "I shall go in there, and up those cobwebby stairs, and sit on the hay by the door that opens into mid-air." The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The stalls were all empty now, and old farm implements, several ploughs, and a rickety wagon occupied the dusty, cobwebby spaces beyond the stalls. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z It is a beautiful flower, whose petals are a clear rose-lilac without spots or marks, with long, whitish, cobwebby hairs on their middle third. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Croceum, the "Orange or Saffron Lily," with somewhat cobwebby stems 3 to 6 feet high, and golden orange, funnel-shaped flowers, spotted with purple at the base; June and July. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z Their business was to argue and refine and speculate, to spin inferences and cobwebby conclusions. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Half a dozen and more lighted lanterns hanging from beams or the low rafters dissipated the darkness of the cobwebby interior; for the once busy shop had been deserted some years now. Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good 2011-08-24T02:00:22.913Z Graham looked around blankly at the cobwebby walls as if expecting gas-jets to break forth simultaneously with his wish. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z Faint cobwebby lines began to appear on the dome-like brow of the scientist, and slowly the squint eyes were narrowing. The Leak 2011-08-23T02:00:33.460Z It was a very old place, large and rambling, and full of queer corners and passageways, and a big echoing cobwebby attic, crowded with old furniture and trunks. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z I stripped off my clothes and grovelled naked on the clay floor, seeking relief in cobwebby corners. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z There were fine cobwebby lines around the eyes and mouth, and a deep one between the brows, and Poppy wished that they were upon her face, too, for they were beautiful. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z At her left was an old-fashioned kitchen, dusty and cobwebby. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z Although it's so dirty and cobwebby and dilapidated, it seems to have more of the old spirit of Chagmouth about it somehow. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z The stable and barn were interesting, and held dim, cobwebby recesses, where bats hung head downwards, and a brown owl sometimes perched blinking upon the cross-beams. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z At once the folio was closed and put back on a cobwebby shelf. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z And father very sensibly discovered that it would not do to leave our spare furniture and heavy luggage in the barn—it was getting all dusty and cobwebby. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z She knew, too, who would pay for those cobwebby things of silk and real lace. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z The windows looked cobwebby, but one of them was open, and, with some difficulty, Bevis hoisted the girls up to peep inside. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z On her brow were faint cobwebby lines; but she could well-nigh rub them away with her finger. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The arrival of a new government is just the time to perform such an exercise, with fresh winds blowing along cobwebby corridors. Philip Green is the best man for the job 2010-08-13T16:05:00Z She moved deeper into the apartment that was like some cobwebby Miss Havisham version of high-end Manhattan living, with peeling paint, torn furniture and a permanent stink of cigarettes. Nightmare in Apartment 9B: A Bleak Family Drama 2010-07-18T01:09:00Z Marie held the cobwebby nightdress ready to put on, but Esm� sent the maid away. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z She wanted movement, the cobwebby mist about her knees, the wet rain in her face. The Valiants of Virginia Everything on the story above was untouched, though perhaps a trifle more dust-covered and cobwebby than before. The School by the Sea "Fetch a glass for yourself," he said, as she uncorked the grey cobwebby bottle. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Arachnoid, Araneose, cobwebby; clothed with, or consisting of, soft downy fibres. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools With a muttered exclamation Esm� looked at tell-tale marring lines, began hastily to put on her expensive under-garments; cobwebby, silken things, trimmed with fine real lace. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Here a faintly burning oil lamp shone behind a cobwebby glass, with the number of the house painted upon it in black. The Green God Being dragged up a dusty ladder into a cobwebby lumber-room by Wilfred had not proved the best of treatments for a pinafore that really had been clean a couple of hours ago. The Youngest Girl in the School He's gone up those dusty stairs into a little musty, cobwebby gallery. The Head Girl at the Gables You would see how we German women, with our thick-skinned housewifely virtues and our cobwebby romance, make our lives unnecessarily hard. Gertrude's Marriage For a while their impressions were blurred, as if they struggled through some murky, cobwebby nightmare. Big Pill Through the cobwebby spring foliage shines the gleam of the snowy peaks; and the air is full of dreams precious as the apple bloom. Through Our Unknown Southwest A Sahara of dust had settled on the curtain of the theatre, and fleet-footed spiders made forages athwart it from one cobwebby stronghold to another. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) She walked slowly down the nave and up the dusty, worm-eaten flight of stairs into the cobwebby regions above. The Head Girl at the Gables The trunks were piled in a cobwebby corner, and their key proved to belong to the lowest one in the pile. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted It's horribly dirty and stuffy and cobwebby in here! The Boarded-Up House This happened to be Spotts, who was in rather a bad humour, the result of a morning spent with the Bishop in the cobwebby heights of a neighbouring church-tower. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts She tore off her light dancing-dress and shivered as she stripped and took refuge in a cobwebby nightgown. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards I don't like to go in a cobwebby hole, and have you play kill me. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated Its propeller was a shimmering, cobwebby disk before it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Leaves dense, large; upper surface light green; lower surface pale green, thinly pubescent, cobwebby; lobes three to five; petiolar sinus deep, narrow; serrations shallow, narrow. Manual of American Grape-Growing Inasmuch as the monastery was over eight hundred years old, many ancient books and moldy scrolls lay forgotten in the cobwebby corners of the great library, especially where the light was gloomy. G-r-r-r...! Cortinarius is from cortina, a curtain, alluding to a cobwebby veil seen only in the comparatively young plants. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Many of the rooms had cupboards—dark, mysterious, cobwebby recesses—into which she 54 peered with a rather jumpy sensation that a bogy might suddenly pop out. The Madcap of the School I was quite startled when I saw myself in the long pier glass; my neck and arms were gleaming through the dainty, cobwebby lace, a ruby pendant sparkled like a crimson star at my throat. Wee Wifie D. Leaves flocculent or cobwebby or glaucous below when fully grown. Manual of American Grape-Growing It was cobwebby stuff over white satin, the neck, cut in the free fashion of the time, showing her dimpled shoulders and the turn of the breast. Nancy Stair A Novel The windows are broken and cobwebby, the garden is a ruin, but the calico, which you may buy at a shop in the town, is fresh and very brightly printed. Highways and Byways in Surrey Lady Beauvayse dabs her tearful eyes with a cobwebby square of laced cambric. The Dop Doctor The lantern flickered on the sloping, cobwebby roof, on the shaggy horses as they lay clumsily down to rest, on the crumpled figure of Gordon’s sister’s husband. Mountain Blood A Novel Leaves large, thick; upper surface dark green, dull, smooth; lower surface pale green, cobwebby; lobes three to five with terminal one obtuse; petiolar sinus deep, narrow; basal sinus shallow, wide; teeth shallow. Manual of American Grape-Growing We opened the hall door and entered a vaulted stone vestibule, full of dust, and cobwebby. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories In some specimens when young there is a slight cobwebby veil which very soon disappears. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. He led them out of the dairy into a little cobwebby room, and pointed up to a square opening. Sunny Boy in the Country And the ladder that led down to it seemed a cobwebby and uncertain 245 path for a lady whose heart was still slipping a beat now and then. The Prairie Mother Leaves large, thick; upper surface dark green, glossy, smooth; lower surface pale green, somewhat cobwebby. Manual of American Grape-Growing And when we got down it was all arched like vaults, very cobwebby. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune The species are to be distinguished from other ochre-spored agarics with a cobwebby veil by the fact that the veil in Cortinarius is superficial and the gills powdery. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. So we found a disengaged lady marionette and began to dress her in a piece of cobwebby grey muslin from which the last few spangles had not yet dropped. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions She had been crying—the cobwebby handkerchief lay beside her, wrecked and ruined forever—but she looked very happy. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 We are going to make a festive occasion of it, and I am to christen her with a bottle of cobwebby old wine. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 "Come on," cried Oswald, when Denny was at last able to appear, very cobwebby and black. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune Strobilomyces strobilaceus changes color when cut, and is edible. 7th.—Reject fungi which have a cobwebby veil or ring when young, and those with slimy caps and clay-colored spores. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. It was simply made and trimmed with cobwebby old lace. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 She passed her cobwebby handkerchief across her lips and her hand trembled. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 It's very old and cobwebby—witness my appearance—and very much in want of scrubbing and a few nails. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 There can be no doubt that the smart stage-coaches of England were very superior conveyances to the cumbersome, cobwebby diligence, which seems better adapted for night than for day travelling. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta Arachnoid, said of the veil when it is cobwebby, that is, formed of loose threads. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. “Oh, dear no,” her mother replied, “it would be horribly dirty and cobwebby—no place for little ladies to climb round in.” Chicken Little Jane Miss Asenath offered her own cobwebby handkerchief to dry Arethusa's reddened eyes. The Heart of Arethusa Down to the barn she wandered, and up the rickety ladder she climbed into the cobwebby loft. At the Little Brown House The high cobwebby openings of the distillery looked on a blank night sky. Marianson From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The glass of the lantern is so smoked and cobwebby that it is more useless than useful to the light inside, and the crowd outside in the dark. Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation The "cobwebby feeling" of the fingers might mean an actual raying-out of some subtle form of matter. The Shadow World "That is because she is pure gold, through and through," said the lame girl as she deftly plied her needle in the cobwebby lace collar she was mending. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman Presently they came back, very dusty, cobwebby, and cold, but triumphantly bearing a droll collection of trophies. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. It is sheer, almost cobwebby, and will enhance any evening gown. How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence She was dressed in a simple white muslin, touched here and there with exquisite hand embroidery and tiny cobwebby edges of real lace. The Man of the Desert This was in accord with the accounts of a "cobwebby feeling" which both Maxwell and Flammarion had drawn from their mediums. The Shadow World Where it’s all dusky, and dark, and cobwebby.” The Hawthorns A Story about Children Mildew: a cobwebby growth of fungi on diseased or decaying things. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition "Too cobwebby," says I. "Why, them wings are nothin' but cloth." Torchy, Private Sec. Rather, it seemed interesting to wander vaguely together, or in the long grass to read together from the books which Reuben would borrow from the cobwebby library of the old schoolmaster. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories He turned, raced across the loft, clattered down the steep, cobwebby stairs, slipped through the shed passage, through the kitchen, and on into his own room. The Calico Cat To my fancy they were clothed invisibly in the damp and cobwebby mould of antiquity. Chapters from My Autobiography Grim gentlemen with somber faces, simpering almond-eyed beauties in cobwebby laces; and in the place of honor a frowning hag, whose wrinkles even the flattering painter dare not hide. The Statesmen Snowbound No; there, in the dim shadows of the cobwebby place, was the stanza that was proof of her son's genius. Joyce of the North Woods Faust of a sudden left his gloomy, cobwebby laboratory, flung a fine cloak over his shoulders, stuck a dandy feather in his cap, buckled on a rapier, and began roistering with the best of us. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View A properly kept attic in the olden days was no dark, musty-smelling, cobwebby affair. Green Valley Both front paws were muddy; his long ears were covered with iron rust; his fat cheeks were dusty and cobwebby, and to the ends of his whiskers clung specks of dirt. Bumper, The White Rabbit He didn't make reply at once, but looked out of the grimy, cobwebby pane at the sky. The President A novel Ring cobwebby or evanescent, not apparent in old specimens, 18. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners After she had gone, the twins lay back thoughtfully on the hay and stared at the cobwebby roof above them. Prudence of the Parsonage One can't see anything out of the window, you know, it's so cobwebby. The Land of Promise Therefore, she ascended the cobwebby stairway, emerged from it into the former hay loft, and thus made her appearance in the printing-room of The North End Daily Oriole. Gentle Julia She came back a little later, dusty, cobwebby, flushed. Honey-Sweet Her cobwebby lace handkerchief fell to the floor. The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep Perhaps it was a glimpse of the cobwebby black silk stocking that ensnared his wits, perhaps it was the delight of kneeling to Kate even in this humble capacity. 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life Scaffolding, clinging to bald façades, seemed frail and cobwebby at great height, and slabs of stone, drawn and held by cables near the summit of chutes, looked like dice on the giddy slide. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt One! two! three! up goes Queen Hildegarde, up and up, among the dusty, cobwebby sunbeams, which settle like a crown upon her fair head. Queen Hildegarde Shyness hitherto had been no infirmity of this young Canadian; but Bertie somehow had mesmerized her into a state of consciousness—it was a cobwebby kind of fetter, but the first she had worn. Bluebell A Novel Over in the corner, under a funny little, cobwebby window she found it, half hidden by the tossed up hay. Mary Jane—Her Visit The khan-keeper took their horses and a little later the two men were led into the single cobwebby chamber, low-ceiled, gloomy, cold and cheerless as a cave. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Then, through the cobwebby windows, he saw in the yellowing west the new moon, and below it the line of distant hills. The Vehement Flame Almost at once she had comprehended that she was expected to write down her name and address, which she did, in slanting cobwebby lettering, perhaps a trifle laboriously. The Ragged Edge I found him in a remote cobwebby corner between-decks, with a book in his hand. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales As they wandered about the grounds, something put it into Jack's head to try one of the cobwebby cellar windows, and lo! it opened. Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters Little white tables smothered in towels and bottles and little pots stood about, and across a low seat was thrown a garment of shimmering gold and silver cobwebby tissue. Desert Love And sometimes it even gets cobwebby, rather thickly covered up. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel The table was covered with rose colored brocade, and over this, cobwebby lace, and over this, plate glass. The House in Good Taste He delved into an abysmal cupboard for a crusted pen and a cobwebby bottle of ink, and was presently sitting among the fragments of three notes addressed, one after the other, to "Dear Miss Bell." A Daughter of To-Day Just one gleam from the tiny cobwebby window high up. The Lion's Share For instance, two of the women came through friendly but unknown doors in the basements of adjoining houses, reaching the workshop by the narrow stairs leading up from a cobwebby wine-cellar next door. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Yan had been crawling about under the house in the low wide cobwebby space between the floor beams and the ground. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned What a beautiful tiling this Pyrola is, with its inverted anthers and the cobwebby margins of its capsule! The New North The rain was streaking with light, cobwebby lines the slaty darkness, of the night. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel She gave her most cobwebby dress a perilous shake and said in flat voice: "Wayne's very kind, I'm sure." The Visioning There was Hawthorne, behind whose writings there is always the wistful, cold, far-withdrawn spectator of human nature—eerie, inquisitive, and, I had almost said, inquisitorial—a little bloodless, eerie, weird, and cobwebby. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? Ann Veronica, a modern love story Then she returned to the kitchen, just as Marilla came grimly in, leading, or rather pulling, the reluctant, cobwebby Davy, whom she had just found hidden away in the darkest corner of the stable. Anne of Avonlea The windows were cobwebby and dreary, yet it looked to the eyes of the new householder like a palace. Lo, Michael! And events proved his logic correct: for presently the younger Jurgen came back with Jacob's Ladder, which was rather cobwebby and obsolete looking after having been lain aside so long. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice Perhaps his liking for spiders may account for a certain cobwebby feeling which comes over one at times while reading his books. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Eternal twilight reigns, and your eyes must become accustomed to the gloom ere you can perceive the cobwebby ceiling of palm-rafters, smoke-begrimed and upheld by two stone columns that glisten with the dirt of ages. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia He did not seem old, but like a middle-aged man, who had been preserved in some dark and cobwebby corner for a great while. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed? The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Pictures of bituminous saints mouldered between the pilasters; the artificial roses in the altar-vases were gray with dust and age, and under the cobwebby rosettes of the vaulting a bird's nest clung. Crucial Instances I wandered about this sunless and cobwebby labyrinth, the old woman pensioners flitting round me like bats in the twilight. Old Calabria A scurrying rat started a few lumps of coal in the slide, and a cobwebby rope hung ominously from one cross beam, giving him a passing shudder. The City of Fire Koom is noted for the size and venom of its scorpions; and the dim recesses of the dark, cobwebby chamber, with its greasy walls and smoke-blackened ceiling, looked just the place for these undesirable bedfellows. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán After we had crept out of that dirty cobwebbed passage, our clothes were slightly soiled and cobwebby. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany With it all there is a rustling overhead in the feathery branches of the palms in the cobwebby spaces among the leaves that give the bats of Africa a home. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign She threw over the hat a cobwebby pattern of brown silk net embroidered heavily with chenille dots and deftly draped it back from Betty's glowing face. Betty Gordon at Boarding School The Treasure of Indian Chasm The room was dusty and cobwebby enough to assure him that it was not used very often and that his surprise would not be discovered before the day of the parade. Abducted to Oz The house was stuffed full of curiosities, but was very dirty and cobwebby; the pictures and the books looked much in need of a caretaker. Hawthorne and His Circle "It is a cobwebby, unlovely passage," said he, brushing the dirt and cobwebs from his trousers. A Fool and His Money They prowled through the islands, crossed the cobwebby bridges from rock to rock above the Falls, and finally sprawled on a bald ledge of stone that jutted far out into the turbulent river. The Shagganappi I'm sure I never had anything half so lovely as this cobwebby handkerchief. Glenloch Girls She was lying on her back, and her eyes at last began to take in broad rafters and cobwebby timbers not far above her head. Castle Craneycrow A lady in a cobwebby gown entered the room. The War Terror And indeed Jess Kissock, sitting in the hay- neuk, with her candle in the lantern throwing patterns on the cobwebby walls from the tiny perforations all round, made a perfectly correct prophecy. The Lilac Sunbonnet Under a cobwebby affair that wreathed one of the slim figures he read, "St. Pierre will love this!" The Flaming Forest "Lympy" was a black and tan terrier, with smooth hair, glossy coat, bead-like eyes, cropped ears, pointed tail, limbs of a cobwebby structure, Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green Under the cobwebby rafters the men lay in rows on clean pallets, and big stoves made the rooms dry and warm. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Miss Ives was still bewildered, fastening the sash of her cobwebby black Mandarin robe as she followed Emma through the passage that joined her suite to the Arbuthnots'. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Besides giving the vague, cobwebby stuff a body it did not deserve. Australia Felix I don't like to go in a cobwebby hole, and have you play kill me, I'll make a nice fort of hay, and be all safe, and you can put Dinah down there for Matty. Under the Lilacs The bundle of his hunting-knife protruded just a little; and as the girl pressed it, the panel glided silently open, revealing a space, square and dark and cobwebby. The Firefly of France Scarves, cobwebby silks in uncut lengths, embroidered lingerie still in the tissue paper of Paris shops, parasols, gloves, and lengths of lace,—she piled all of them into Margaret's arms. Mother The valise they had got down from its cobwebby niche was roomy; it would hold enough for two. Rebecca Mary She wore a gown of some soft, silky material, sprigged with heliotrope, and round her neck a fichu of cobwebby lace, fastened at the breast with a cameo brooch of old Italian workmanship. The Hermit of Far End "Do you see that cobwebby nest with all those hairy caterpillars on it and around it up in that tree?" asked Kitty. The Burgess Bird Book for Children Out of this came a couple, a lady in a white, cobwebby evening gown, with a lace wrap like a wreath of mist thrown over it, and a man, tall, faultless, assured—too assured. Sixes and Sevens He daydreamed a thousand ways of putting her in her place, but was unable to carry out any of them, and had but a cobwebby satisfaction in imagining discomfitures for her which remained imaginary. Ramsey Milholland There is more of lightness, and of a cobwebby dusty humour in Hepzibah Pyncheon, the decayed lady shopkeeper, than Hawthorne commonly cares to display. Adventures Among Books Miss Livinia looked up from the delicate piece of cobwebby lace she was finishing. The Hermit of Far End I cannot vouch so confidently for the cobwebby legend which wove itself about him. An Old Town By the Sea There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a p�t� de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes She made ruffled chemises of sheer linen, with her own fine edgings and French embroidery on breast and shoulders; linen hand-made combination undersuits; and nightgowns, fairy and cobwebby, embroidered, trimmed with Irish lace. The Valley of the Moon |
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