| 单词 | spidery |
| 例句 | There were spidery shapes made out of old desks stacked top to top. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It was written in an old scribe’s hand, spidery and hard to follow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My eyes are open, so I can see the black spidery eyelashes sleeping on her cheeks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A gentle soul, already long and spidery of limb and uneven of tooth, this boy was introduced to me in the evening in some embarrassment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The gray light from the window cast spidery shadows across it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He’s so close I could run my fingers through his shiny, tangly brown hair, run them across the faint spidery wrinkles that fan out at his temples, across the dark worrying shadows beneath. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In the corner, the spidery arms of another small press crawl over a stack of leaflets printed in Hebrew. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The burns had healed, leaving faint, spidery scars across Haye’s skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She flung open the cottage door, and a bit of milkweed whisked in on a rush of November wind, spilling shreds of spidery white down. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She pointed her spear and a spidery arc of blue electricity shot out, zapping the lion in the tail. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He sat facing the tents, his long, spidery legs crossed in front of him, and Zu’s workbook in his lap. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z To the west, silver headlights crawled slowly across the spidery steel arch of the new Aurora Bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Their names are like names in a footnote, or names written in spidery brown ink in the fronts of Bibles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She held her spidery old black umbrella between herself and the sun. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The spidery steel-work of gallery above gallery faded away in all directions into the dark. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The tractor was dragging a spidery machine called an eight-row planter, which dropped corn seeds into the earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Back then the shelves had been crowded with colored glass jars, wooden boxes, casks, and bags, all labeled with the spidery handwriting of Mr. Barrett. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken a decade since he first saw her spidery handwritten list, but now it was a fact. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was tall and spidery, horned and fanged and furred. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She daubed the ointment onto the wound, picked up his hand, and examined the spidery black knots as if they were a work of art—a painting, a sculpture. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Of the three grimy windows, one has a jagged hole in the upper- right corner and one is seamed with spidery cracks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Count Olaf reached out one of his spidery hands and stroked Violet on the chin, looking deep into her eyes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z A new patient had come to him asking what she could do about the spidery veins on her cheeks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Just inside the front cover, spidery handwriting proclaimed, “This book belongs to me, Lilian Willis.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She bent over to examine a dark, spidery plant growing along the fence to the left of the house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z This process, it said in spidery writing on a card, was called trepanning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Arm got up, making a spidery silhouette against the pink curtain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t? You mean he didn’t tear you limb from limb and throw you down in the spidery cellar?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She knows what we both think of girls who' would go to secretarial school, with their spidery plucked eyebrows and pink nylon blouses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She is a sprightly, spidery woman, with a narrow nose and piercing hazel eyes as bright and sharp as a bird’s. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was the spidery end of the grappling hook, which after several attempts had finally stuck onto something on the tower. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “And smoking is a terrible habit that not only eats your lungs away, it gives you those spidery lip wrinkles before your time, which Botox will not fix.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The papers were covered in swift, spidery handwriting, in black ink, which was hard to read; it seemed to be a sort of long argument about mathematics, all in French. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “It was just horrible. So spidery. I’ve never had such a spidery nightmare in my entire life.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The fire was the only source of light in the room; it cast long, spidery shadows upon the walls. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He looked like his sister Alexandra, but their physical resemblance ended at the neck: Dr. Finch was spare, almost spidery; his sister was of firmer proportions. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When I flipped through the book, an adhesive-backed label bearing an autograph written in a spidery hand fluttered to the floor. 2009-12-03T23:00:00Z Her spidery fingers splayed and wiggled as she moved along an eccentric path that covered every bit of the stage. Dance Review: Ruth Zaporah at Danspace Project - Review 2011-10-31T22:24:02Z With a web as her signature, Ms. Schiffer also produced an intarsia knit with spidery mesh — a contrast to simple sportswear like a denim check dress. Fash File: In Paris: Dior?s accessories, Lagerfeld for Hogan and Claudia Schiffer 2011-10-05T18:12:23Z There’s no other sound in music precisely like Mary Halvorson’s guitar, which she plays with a flinty attack, a spidery finesse and a shiver of wobbly delay. Mary Halvorson on Guitar: Unflinching and Full of Grace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Sudden floods of spidery runs and bursts of quivering energy were like sparks popping from a fire in a desert night. Review: Juilliard String Quartet Shows Agility at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z He was in the slant of his spidery script. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z And on almost every track there’s a richness of musical detail: the multitracked vocal harmonies, the shrewdly off-kilter grooves, all those spidery bass arpeggios. New Music: Albums From Thundercat and Buika 2013-06-10T21:43:39Z But watch Mr. Fiennes’s hands, look as they flutter, their white, spidery fingers idling with exquisite delicacy as the long nails, sharpened into perfect arrows, threaten the worst. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z It doesn't detract from the closing impression of a spidery web of light as magical as the music, skilfully realised by conductor Lothar Koenigs and his players. Ariadne auf Naxos - review 2010-10-12T21:00:00Z Bethel dances across the top of a prominent bass line on “The Model” like a gothic femme fatale, while Paterson’s sparse backing vocals and a spidery guitar function as characters in a mini-film noir. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z Black, spidery watchtowers with slanting roofs and long, black stilts for legs behind the black fencing, attached to black poles, silhouetted against powdery white across the ground. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Hades does a turn as a spidery, sinister incubus, enveloping Cassandra with his gothic gloom. Mark Bruce Company 2010-06-07T21:40:00Z When she moved, it was to shake, violently, her long limbs, tracing spidery paths. Dance Review: Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili at Danspace Project 2012-03-20T22:12:25Z Titania’s attendant Cobweb dangles on a strand of spidery silk. Shadow puppets lend an otherworldliness to ‘Midsummer’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z On “Fleer Ultra,” the most rhythmically frenetic workout in the set, he started with a waft of ethereal long tones, his sound heavily processed, before gradually moving on to spidery arpeggios and bulletlike runs. Music Review: Thundercat, No Longer a Sideman, Plays S.O.B.?s 2012-02-03T23:23:15Z Erin, wilful and increasingly intrigued by her grandfather's spidery handwriting, decides to take up a nervous Eliza's invitation to stay with her well-to-do Israeli family while her friend embarks on her military training. Peter Kosminsky: Britain's humiliation in Palestine 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z In “Story of My Death,” Serra mines a clever conceit for its vast historical reach; his frozen images seem to bend and break with spidery cracks under the tension of their inner conflict. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Hall changed up his sound from time to time, using an icy reverb that turned his lines all spidery; a chorus occasionally doubled its mass. Guitarist Jim Hall masterful at Jazz Alley Thursday 2011-03-18T20:32:04Z It stands like a panoptic sentry, watching over a spidery field of views and height limits. Should views of the Gherkin be protected? 2013-06-18T12:59:20Z Or that the tattoo of a spidery tree etched across his freckle-flecked shoulder depicts a certain Spanish moss in Gainesville, which meant a lot to him in a different time. True love, according to the feds 2013-02-14T16:51:00Z Producing the publication, due out in a few weeks, cost “significant six figures,” Mr. Cunningham said in a recent interview in his apartment, against a backdrop of Zimmermann copper bowls and a spidery iron candelabrum. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z And so were spidery ripped leggings, bejeweled bustiers and the requisite claw-hand pose. Fans pay homage to Lady Gaga 2010-08-16T21:15:00Z But the guileless instrumental accompaniment here had a tendency to take the edge off the discomfort, which makes Ms. Monk’s best music so compelling as it teeters on the spidery line between alienation and revelation. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Below spidery black branches of pine, bright pink light reflects off a forest trail. Yosemite through the eyes, and the iPad, of David Hockney 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z His forte was live performance, when his sometimes ragged voice worked well and his movements were a whirl of bare midriff, tight bell-bottoms, huge Affro and spidery reach and height. Boney M singer Bobby Farrell dies at 61 2010-12-30T17:42:49Z Even the paper Mr. Kentridge draws on teems with information: old maps, newspapers in Afrikaans and English, the ledger of a mining company covered in spidery handwriting. ‘Winterreise’ Augmented by Kentridge Video Art 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z And Olivier Abry, a lighting designer in Lyon, France, enlivens vintage décor with his own spidery sconces and lamps. Design Books to Kick-Start Your Decorating Projects 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The reason I got the job on Pines in the first place, I'm sure, is that originally the character was written as a very malevolent ex-con, a dark, controlling, spidery puppetmaster. Ben Mendelsohn: from Erinsborough to Hollywood via Gotham 2013-04-05T12:00:00Z Its spidery inscription reads “Jumbo King of Elephants.” ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z A black, spidery light fixture dangling from the ceiling added a contemporary twist to the vintage vibe. Hotel Review: The Marlton in New York City 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The area isn't hard to miss, its spidery streets speckled with an eclectic mix of independent shops and bars, leading you right to the front steps of the Broadway. Cine-files: Broadway, Nottingham 2012-07-24T10:40:07Z On occasion he even made drawings and paintings — surreal at first, spidery and jittery later on. Alan Vega Ignored the Art World. It Won’t Return the Favor. 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Suddenly after an August or September rain, they appear--2-foot-tall stems crowned by whorls of crinkled flowers with spidery stamens that earn them their name. The South's Top Pass-Along Plants 2010-08-18T18:32:00Z Rogers rarely speaks of aesthetics, yet his notebooks brim with spidery scrawls, in a rainbow of coloured biros, about beauty. Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z Chunks of concrete, wood and marble, bits of machinery, old ink bottles and crystal shards perched on musical scores, notes scrawled in Mr. Mari’s spidery handwriting and his drawings. Design: Erupting Beauty at Furniture Show 2010-04-18T16:11:00Z Midori and Mr. Aydin instead drew the listener inward, as she spun spidery threads of sound above the piano’s inky chords. Music Review: Midori and Ozgur Aydin at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-08T22:40:51Z Her lean body — sharp elbows, loose hips, an earthy plié — creates a spidery grace so compellingly unusual that you can’t help but pine when she’s been off the stage for too long. Review: Dorrance Dance and Toshi Reagon’s ‘The Blues Project’ at the Joyce Theater 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Inside were pages and pages of notes and drafts in Wallace’s tiny, spidery handwriting. Piecing Together a Posthumous Novel From David Foster Wallace 2011-04-08T18:51:59Z Leslie Holt’s “Brain Stain” pictures offset bold acrylic painting with spidery embroidery, inspired by how mental illnesses appear in brain scans. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The shoreline workshops all used similar inexpensive pigments, which often develop spidery cracks. Mortality Lives Again as Funeral and Cemetery Items Pique Interest 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Pretty without pandering, it contains fleeting allusions to folk music and sends the cellist on an excursion into the spidery upper harmonics of the instrument. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z A number of varieties are based on daylily species that present smaller and more spidery flowers on slender, tall and upright stems that are handsome features in themselves. Rekindling a gardener’s passion for daylilies 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z But the players seemed even more uncoiled and passionate on Sunday, particularly in a kaleidoscopic account of the Fourth, with its spidery, muted third movement and all-plucked Allegretto. Music Review: The Takacs Quartet Interprets Bartok 2014-01-21T22:03:40Z Wearing a beret with the “Charlotte’s Web” spidery pattern that is her trademark, Charlotte Dellal, 29, told the story about her autumn 2011 shoe collection, shown at the end of London Fashion Week. Special Report: Fashion: Brazil, Film Noir and Shoes 'To Die For' 2011-02-23T18:46:29Z Robert Brill’s clean, sturdy sets included towering masts, spidery riggings and, in one scene, a brilliantly realized whale-rendering works. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z “When daylight comes the castle falls in ruins and O’Donahue returns to his grave,” wrote Hemingway in a spidery scrawl. Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The most genuinely trippy scene is the shadowy “Cracked Mirrors,” in which reflective props and spidery lighting work together, along with the dancers, to disorient. Review: Momix’s ‘Alice’ Is a Rabbit Hole (or 22) Too Far 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Musically, Manzarek's spidery organ on "Light My Fire" is one of the most instantly recognizable sounds in rock history. Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74 2013-05-21T14:23:11Z Ms. Jolie’s performance is similarly bifurcated, with a controlled physicality that, just when it seems to be edging into catwalk blankness, springs to weird life with grotesque facial contortions and spidery movements. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z His fretwork was spidery and brisk, and at times his band seemed to be evoking the onrushing tilt of a hiccuping funk sample, racing along the far edge of control. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z No one moves quite as she does, and what seemed both fey and unnaturally natural on her spidery body seemed like not entirely believable dance moves for the lovely and more orthodox Ms. Block. Dance Review: ‘Self Made Man Man Made Land,’ by Ursula Eagly 2012-08-13T19:16:12Z Grant Wallace Band, a quirky trio of conservatory-trained composers, followed with spidery original bluegrass songs, featuring ambiguous harmonies and high-lonesome yelps. Critic’s Notebook: A Hurricane Benefit in Chicago for a Brooklyn Record Label 2012-12-18T23:24:53Z In some of the ruminating scales of Bartok’s String Quartet No. 1, the violinists Stephen Waarts and Inmo Yang shrank their sound to a single spidery line. Finding a Musical Ideal in the Vermont Woods 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The "winter boughs" call up no obtrusively eloquent metaphor, no effortful adjectives or verbs: they are simply "spidery" and "twitched in a breeze". Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z The plush, retro décor, with flourishes like a spidery light fixture and tufted wall, was imaginative, too. From Italian-Asian to Locavore Canadian: Food Adventures in Vancouver 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z As Cymbeline’s malicious queen, she prowls the stage in a spidery black dress with a sly smile, relishing her machinations. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z He's a superb classical technician, someone who can turn jazz standards into Bach-like fugues, all spidery left-hand arpeggios and complex right-hand workouts. Brad Mehldau Trio – review 2012-11-15T18:02:08Z Fully a foot wide, spidery and bright orange, ‘Wildman’ is a dinner-plate dahlia that benefits, like all of its kind, from pinching back early in the season, deep watering and full sun. Flower power: Huge blooms will amaze and attract 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Much of what is laid on out on the walls represents rivers and small estuaries, spidery forms that look a bit like deep cracks and fissures in the plaster. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Below me I could see mangroves and spidery tidal estuaries; ahead, sky and sea. Off the Tourist Grid in the Bahamas 2013-01-30T22:27:14Z A swaggering Taj Mahal paid tribute to Pops’ fusion of spidery blues guitar and gospel harmonizing on “Wade in the Water.” Mavis Staples rescues her own tribute concert 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z One was of a spare, spidery web done in ink on paper. Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Their feet plant firmly into the floor as they pitch their bodies forward; buttery slides and turns send them spinning through space in spidery choreography. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z The book contains full-color images of airsick bags covered in Mr. Cave’s spidery, crooked cursive. Nick Cave’s ‘The Sick Bag Song,’ an Epic Poem Composed on Tour 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Some tables are set in secluded alcoves at the east end, framed by spidery latticework that evokes carved Chinese screens. Imagination Worth the Added Price at Midtown’s La Chine 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Still, there was a valuable place for Mr. Sissoko, for the spidery movements of his fingers, for his lacework arpeggios. Music Review | Regina Carter: Grooving to African Folk With Yacouba Sissoko 2010-03-24T20:58:00Z Especially when backing Mr. Marsalis, he eased away from strict chordal accompaniment, throwing in frisky riffs and spidery lines, as provocation and framework. Music Review: Wynton Marsalis Septet Members, Together Again 2013-12-27T21:14:06Z Two muscled knees on the pedal bike were pushing through leggings, breaking them into a spidery mesh. Special Report: Performance Wear, Hip and Ripped 2010-09-22T18:11:00Z A marketing C.E.O. provides Singer with a spidery handwriting sample from her son so that a proctor can ape it on the ACT, writing, dryly, “Good luck with this.” The College-Admissions Scandal and the Banality of Scamming 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z She wrote them, in neat spidery script, for about 70 years. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z And on 4 May, after a visit from the matron at 10:30 in the morning, she notes in spidery letters - "I have the virus". Families sue government for failing to protect care homes from Covid 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Cities like Kyiv, captured by the satellite as a spidery web of light before the war, fade and fracture in the ensuing months. Ukraine Goes Dark: Images From Space Drive Home the Nation’s Anguish 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z A figure of spidery elegance, Caine is, like Wick, a reluctant killer, pressed into service against his will and better judgment. Review: Something ‘Wick’-ed this way comes (again) 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z If you spread the mixture to the edge of the waffle iron, it makes a prettier waffle, but for crisp, spidery edges of potato — think latkes here — use less filling. Shaq’s loaded potato waffle makes a hall-of-fame-worthy meal 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Sophisticated wide-angle cameras made it easier to measure skyglow from the ground, and satellite images started showing spidery webs of light spreading across the globe. The Sky Needs Its ‘Silent Spring’ Moment 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The intricate structures in the debris plume—almost “spidery” in places, Bruck Syal says—will help modellers to understand exactly how the impact unfolded. Fresh Images Reveal Fireworks from DART’s Asteroid Impact 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The spidery lines of the reassembled pane are a careful worker’s diary of its destruction and reconstruction — and not a bad metaphor for the arc of Korean history in the 20th century. Review: Korean Modern art gets its long-overdue spotlight at LACMA 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z His so-called Black Spider Memos — named for his spidery handwriting — to government ministers have been cited as evidence that he wouldn’t be neutral in his dealings with Parliament. King Charles III signals his reign will offer change of tone 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Taking their name from Charles' spidery handwriting, these were private letters from Charles to government ministers from 2004 onwards. What kind of a King will Charles be? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z And the rapid-fire pitter-patter of those spidery digits over computer keyboards is a comical running gag throughout. ‘The Bad Guys’ movie review: Animated villains are all good fun 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z “To be fair, I looked over everyone’s retina, and we decided that mine was actually the most interesting. The vein patterns of mine were more dense and spidery, and there’s more color contrast.” How this tech whiz became William Shatner’s eyeball double in ‘Star Trek II’ 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z On one forearm is a spidery script saying, “Never look back.” The Hidden Epidemic of Brain Injuries From Domestic Violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z O’Rourke’s chronic medical issues followed a chaotic route — sick, then sicker, then OK, then much sicker, then somewhat better — with spidery little paths radiating outward. Review: How America fails chronically ill people, in one memoirist's diagnosis 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z He’s depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a blank white face. Judge to hold hearing on releasing woman in Slender Man case 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z In years past the work was daunting, with researchers looking for newspaper obituaries in local libraries or visiting courthouses to decipher faint and spidery handwriting in 19th century ledgers. How a forgotten Black activist fueled a California city's racial reckoning 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The calendar reminders have, admittedly, saved me on multiple occasions, but I often miss the classic simplicity of a nondigital timepiece, the spidery grace of eyelash-thin hands sweeping past elegant Roman numerals. Column: My Apple Watch just dumped me. Should we get back together? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z But the document, written in spidery handwriting, was difficult to interpret. You’ve Got (Century-Old) Mail: Soldier’s Note Is Echo of World War I Era 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z But it’s this spidery set — enormous web included — that stands out among the rest. From 'Tiger King' to 'Schitt's Creek,' we rank 2020's celebrity Halloween costumes 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The reply, in my sister’s spidery hand, was uncle. What does it mean to be an uncle? I have no blueprint for the love I feel for my nephew | Tiger Webb 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “Yam Story III” is a vertical web of spidery white tracery over flat black, a ghostly trail of light standing 7½ feet tall. Review: Spectacular aboriginal paintings from Australia burst with deep, sacred beauty 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z She affects a groan, eyes rolling beneath their spidery lashes. Petula Clark: ‘Elvis angled for a threesome – he was raring to go’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Rebennack came of age in the 1970s, a time of great musical experiments in which his unconventional performances, touched by a trademark gravelly voice and spidery piano riffs, found an enthusiastic audience. Louisiana editorial roundup 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The most chilling revision, however, is a spidery, grasping hand on the president’s chest, closely juxtaposed to an enlarged lapel pin of the American flag. Review: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer's searing paintings delve into the structures of spiritualism - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Would he have big swirly writing like mine, or my husband's spidery writing? My baby died. Please ask me his name 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Written in black ink in spidery, meticulous handwriting, it proclaimed at the top of the page: “On a Move!” ‘Intoxicating freedom, gripping fear’: Mumia Abu-Jamal on life as a Black Panther 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z After the four dancers departed, Fairchild began a solo in which he incorporated and interpreted the movement he had just been besieged by — flailing, spinning, hoofing, jabbing his arms in spidery lunges. Justin Peck Is Making Ballet That Speaks to Our Everyday Lives 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Tempura — baby seabass, sea eel, spidery chrysanthemum leaves — with cherry blossom salt? Jonathan Gold takes a look at the art of sushi as practiced at Shiki Beverly Hills 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Rabiot-Verratti-Motta is a powerful midfield and in the early exchanges the spidery Rabiot in particular was able to bounce his way through the clinches. Cristiano Ronaldo ensures Real Madrid ease past PSG into last eight 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Slender Man is typified by spidery limbs and a blank white face. Slender Man stabbing: Wisconsin girl sentenced to 40 years in mental hospital 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He is typically depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a featureless white face. Slender Man case: girl who stabbed classmate gets 25-year hospital sentence 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Matic was the dominant figure on the pitch, snapping into his tackles, finding pockets of calm in the fury and growing in spidery authority throughout. José Mourinho revels in the brutal beauty of sticking to his principles | Barney Ronay 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z These small trees light up the winter garden with colorful, spidery flowers on bare branches. Keep your hummingbirds happy with winter bloomers with nectar-rich flowers 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The clothbound ledgers, which describe New York Life’s revenues and expenses in spidery script, also document how the company institutionalized the nation’s racial hierarchy. Insurance Policies on Slaves: New York Life’s Complicated Past 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z The sensational, spidery plot of the most gripping game of thrones in modern history is best captured by two images. When Hillary and Donald Were Friends 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Regardless of the hour, its pillow-bedecked window seats — lit by bare bulbs dangling from a spidery chandelier — are filled with a hipster crowd nursing coffee, microbrews or cocktails made with homemade elderflower syrup. Slovenia’s (Burgeoning) Fairy Tale of a City 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The hat was vermilion, with white, spidery letters upon it. The Picture of Donald Trump 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z But this trailer’s weirdly squeaky-clean space station is still creepy, with its huge windows and art deco pavilions and spidery shadow-creatures. The new Prey trailer reminds us that space is beautiful but probably full of monsters 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He showed me his parents’ ledgers from the forties, written in a spidery hand. The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z First of all, as well as the animal's eight spidery limbs, he and his colleagues spotted some imposing jaws. Ancient fossil was 'nearly a spider' - BBC News 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The 10-foot crocodiles for which we scanned the riverbanks never materialized, but we did see great white egrets standing like sentries on the mud flats and ibises perching above the spidery mangrove roots. Escaping to Mexico’s Best-Kept-Secret Island 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Luckily, his new powers kick in as he knocks out the bad guys with punches, kicks and a lethal spidery sting. ‘Spider-Man’ fan fiction helps career of Spotsylvania actor 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Above all, I was transfixed by the sight of Boulez’s minuscule, spidery handwriting, which almost requires a magnifying glass to decipher. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z He had theorized that new axons—spidery extensions that carry the neuron’s impulses—would sprout enthusiastically, and this proved correct. Can an Unorthodox Operation Cure Paraplegia? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z "They are growing hundreds of thousands of plants indoors under lights, and now they are seeing spidery mites, fungus and other plant diseases they fear will wipe out millions of dollars of profit." A first for the marijuana industry: A product liability lawsuit 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Transmission, released as a stopgap single between albums, is among the finest of them all, a heavy danse macabre of scorched-earth bass, spidery guitar and doomsday drums that destroys all that stands in its way. Joy Division: 10 of the Best 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The label identifying a sunflower from South America, brown with age, is written in the spidery Cyrillic scrawl of a nineteenth-century Russian collector. Plant collections left in the cold by cuts 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The letters are known as “black spider memos,” based on the prince’s spidery handwriting, his use of black calligraphy ink on heavy paper and his predilection for exclamation points. Private Letters of Prince Charles Released After Long Court Battle 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Brazil’s fiscal picture looks like a cracked iPhone: spidery, messy, somewhat irreparable. Next Four Years Will Be Pressure Cooker For Brazil Pres Dilma 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Park played one song with the SG and its notes blended strangely into the structure, emitting spidery clusters of sound. CMJ's opening night: Amanda X, Dune Rats, J Fernandez, Charly Bliss, Roomrunner 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z She worked with Stratasys to develop a collection of garments featuring intricate, spidery ruffles and flounces created on a printer. 3D print your racing car 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But there they were: spidery veins that officials of the Central Park Conservancy began noticing last October in the wreaths attached to the granite base of the William Tecumseh Sherman monument at Grand Army Plaza. A Gilded Monument Mysteriously Sheds Its Brand-New Gold 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z However, all the females in this case were virgins, and so perhaps weren’t fully experienced with the ways of the spidery world. Fake Jewels: Male Spiders Give Worthless Gifts to Entice Females 2014-05-05T14:18:03Z The mammoth nebula may be the first imaged filament of a spidery arrangement of galaxies, gas and dark matter that traces the large-scale structure of the cosmos. Light from Ancient Quasar Reveals Intergalactic Web 2014-01-23T19:00:00Z They were spidery aliens who did no climate modification at all. Think big 2013-07-17T17:20:44.347Z In the 1960s, during the space age hey day, a magazine advert showed a glamorous female astronaut, with long spidery false eyelashes, holding a bottle of detergent. Viewpoint: Is there a glass ceiling in space? 2013-04-29T18:13:39Z Obvious exceptions aside, footballers are no longer lanky, gangly, beefy, spidery and so on. Chelsea channel David Bowie, but they're beating up the wrong guy 2013-01-11T14:18:02Z She succeeded, but the tree took a divot of flesh out of her shin and sent a spidery crack through her bone. DUSTOFF 73 and the ‘Valley of Death’ 2012-11-05T06:00:00Z The scene is broken up, however, buy strange, black, spidery blemishes scattered randomly about. Cosmic Old Faithful: Are There Geysers on Mars? 2012-10-09T15:35:38Z We hear, for instance, much of Liszt's hand, of its vampire-like clutch, of its uncanny, spidery power of extension—as a child I firmly believed that he could reach two octaves without difficulty. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z There is a na�ve scene of the Magi, whose sleeves are as long and whose hands are as spidery as those of the princess; and above is an Annunciation. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Was much disappointed, said I'd never touch it again, and tossed it into the spidery little cupboard where it had so often returned after fruitless trips. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z The mate cried, "All ashore!" the newsboys and apple-venders disappeared; the planks were drawn in; the long, spidery walking-beam began to play; and the Swallow had started with her five hundred passengers. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z One of Ms. Frazier’s symptoms was myographia, a condition in which her handwriting, legible at first, would quickly become smaller, more spidery and unreadable as she continued to write. Well Blog: Forced Exercise's Effects on the Brain 2011-10-12T04:01:04Z The spidery "Theme Building" at LAX is the most enduring. Our airports ain't what they used to be 2011-08-24T00:30:00Z I was born in the cellar of this very house, and, for a delightful, spidery residence, I know of no place to equal the dark, dust-stained window ledge where I first drew breath. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z It was written in a striking feminine hand, which moulded the spidery German characters into something unusually strong and characteristic. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z He sprang among the wires with a spidery sort of agility, caught one, pulled and hung upon it with, all his weight. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z So, with a thrill of awe, little Dots’ hand is put tentatively forth, and the baby fingers play upon the cruel blades of the grisly weapons and pass wonderingly down their dark, spidery hafts. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z What with showing the little fingers how to manage the spidery ribs of the little basket she began, and working out the braided border of her own basket, Marcia’s attention was fully taken up. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Mr. Lynch’s hunched posture and spidery gestures are appropriate to his shady character, but the rest of him seems more from Cincinnati than Central Europe. | New Jersey: Strangers on a Train, Destination Unknown 2011-05-07T00:56:45Z Finally he selected a letter written on thin paper, in a close, spidery hand. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Thunderstorms drenched Kennedy Space Center and spidery lighting bolts raced across the sky. Scrubbed! Space Shuttle Launch Delayed at Least 3 Days Due to Electrical Failure 2011-04-30T00:15:00.217Z The note was very brief, in a spidery, female hand. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z Frank moved more slowly, and lumbered his great body from between the spidery wheels. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Then, loosening the top bar, he flung it forth as the spidery form of Hough descended, and it struck before the Puritan's feet and stopped him dead. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z It was written with woful shakiness showing in every spidery line, and with more than a spider's venom in its words. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z That antiquated black-mutton-chop-shape balanced on two spidery wheels, and that fair and tender sprouting! The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The vinyl arrives in the form of black PVC pellets contained in a large vat with spidery tubes running out of it and into several large presses. Disappearing work: how to make a vinyl record 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z The painting by Ms. Torr on view here, however, was created in upstate New York; titled “January,” it depicts spidery, snow-covered tree branches. | Long Island: Old Meets New at the Heckscher Museum of Art 2010-05-21T23:31:00Z The date 1805 in spidery numerals and the iron verandas, which even on this June day were a mockery, helped the illusion that here was a forgotten by-way in an old sea-port. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They're very faint, spidery lines, but they certainly are straight and regular. The Secret of the Ninth Planet Her handwriting had been spidery enough, and he pictured her hopefully as small and wizened. Plashers Mead A Novel It takes no more time to write clearly than in spidery hieroglyphics, and a slovenly scribble is no proof of cleverness, but rather of carelessness and a tendency to 'scamp' work. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. They have a fugacious, persistent friable ring, and are liable to be confused with the Cortinarii, unless attention is paid to the spidery veil and the iron-rust tint of the spores of the latter. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous A blue-breeched dwarf thrust me into a dwarf 'rickshaw on spidery wheels, and down the rough road that we had taken four hours to climb ran me clamorously in half an hour. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel But apparently the foe had exhausted its limited resources, for the thin spidery line of rocket sparks reached out, farther and farther, until it seemed to touch the surface of the golden globe. The Secret of the Ninth Planet I am not even sure that I did not once or twice hear the voice of old Gasitye, and behold his spidery old form shambling among the trees. The Induna's Wife Charming jacanas with chestnut plumage, white and golden gorgets, long legs, and the slenderest spidery feet, ran in little troops upon the thinnest film of floating vegetation. Tales of South Africa The four Gnii went into a small huddle, waving their spidery legs at each other. Mr. President Flying spirals of ice climbed up inside the tower, spanning the great stone well with spidery bridges, joining icy galleries. Black Amazon of Mars There were spidery scaffolds leading up to open ports in the metallic sides. The Secret of the Ninth Planet The car swung up above the graceful, spidery buttresses and moved across the city. Twelve Times Zero The sharp-pointed buildings could be seen to be interlaced with countless spidery cables and glistening bridges. Deepfreeze Four large spidery creatures entered the room, followed by a small bald man. Mr. President She was a large white craft, with a yellow funnel and two rakish-looking masts, with light spidery rigging. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam Against the light, the spidery metal maze of foot-bridging stood out dimly, tracing a random criss-cross pattern that dwindled to invisibility in the mists. Pet Farm The young woman in the picture had a kind of a nice sweet face, but there was so many arms it made her look too spidery, seemed to me. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade "Is plotted, Jonner," boomed Qoqol, turning his head to peer at them with huge eyes through the spidery tangle of his thin, double-jointed arms and legs. Atom Drive It splashed like a liquid flame over men and metal and twisted the towers and buttresses into spidery tendrils of glowing thread. The Peacemaker He soon learns, however, to differentiate between the spidery dens where money is amassed and the soot laden tenements in which the struggle for existence is keen. The Silent Barrier I called to him in his own language, and he dropped the basket, with an exclamation, his spidery thin body braced to flee or to raise an alarm. The Planet Savers It was a light frame of white metal bars, with spidery coils and huge glowing tubes and flimsy spinning disks mounted in it. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Taking this up and glancing at its fly-leaf, he saw a name written in spidery German script, almost illegible from its shakiness—“Max Lebensfunke.” Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 The loading gantry was a dark, spidery framework beside The Ship, leaning against it, drawing strength from its sleek beauty. Sound of Terror She looked around the dim anteroom, at the spidery tangle of orange and black ropes against the left-hand wall; then at the doorway in the right-hand wall with the warm light streaming through. The Passenger I saw no trunk, but I descried two long and bony arms, ebony as the chair, with crooked, spidery, misty fingers. Byways of Ghost-Land He moved as we entered, and from a reclining position, propped up on the double elbows of one spidery arm, he changed to a sitting position that brought his head nearly to the ceiling. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 It certainly did not look imposing—a mass of spidery tubes mazing round a bulky black box, which was, Lance guessed, some new type of generator. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 The fishermen's huts clinging to the rocky crevices of the harbour entrance on thousands of spidery legs, let crackers off to the passing ships and fluttered a mist of flags. Westward with the Prince of Wales When the cadet officers reached the room they found Ferguson on the floor being strangled black in the face by spidery little Grayson. The Adventurer In a little cove, cradled in a cunning, spidery structure of wood, a submarine rested upon the ways. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 I could even make out the landing platform, slightly elevated above the roof on spidery arches of silvery metal. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Strange, moundlike shapes appeared far below, mounds grouped in orderly rows and clusters, with streets running between them, thronged with tiny, spidery dots. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Thinner, much older, his long, spidery arms, almost colorless blond hair and eroded features gave him the air of a cenobite who had escaped from some Scandinavian wilderness into life. Melomaniacs As if France could not trust herself without recording in spidery handwriting exactly where she is, for nobody to look at afterwards. Another Sheaf A house or two, with barn looming largely in the rear, and spidery fencing, stretching in rectangular directions, suggested homesteads; the barking of dogs––life. The Hound From The North But Jessie was nowhere to be seen, and a shadow of disappointment clouded his face as he halted the only too willing beast and clambered down between the spidery wheels. The Twins of Suffering Creek The creature's great eyes became filmy, while the revolting spidery body slewed here and there across the jar, all the time whipping and thrashing at the strangling air. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Hazy forms materialized on the lighted disk—the cage of the transparent, woven basket—dark spidery forms within. Wanderer of Infinity With redoubled fury I hacked at the spidery shape. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Fascinated, Chris stared, as into this distant pallor stepped the short and remarkably spidery figure of a man. Mr. Wicker's Window No, but he could stride closer in an instant, aim at that spidery figure silhouetted against Sophia's lighted window, and bring down his enemy with a single bolt. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel There’s that girl on the Star, Jean Throssel, who makes all kinds of wealth, they say, out of her spidery, filmy girls in ringlets and cheesecloth dinner gowns.” The Dark Star They are flimsy sheets of tissue-paper covered with spidery characters in violet ink, and Bingo, taking them, recognises the handwriting, and is, as he states without hesitation, confoundedly flabbergasted. The Dop Doctor Here, there, monuments of the past remained—the Eiffel Tower, absurdly dwarfed by the vast buildings around it, still reared its spidery self in Paris, and Notre Dame still remained as well. Starman's Quest A moment later eight Germans came toward him, picking their way over piles of rubble and carrying spidery things he recognized as machine-guns. Where the Souls of Men are Calling Far above, the roof was dimly visible, a spidery tangle of trusswork. It Could Be Anything This spidery viaduct slowly and safely crossed, we skirt, for a while, the mountain side, still overhanging a perilous abyss. From Paris to New York by Land As the vessel swung into the long turn that leads round the first big bend, he glanced back and caught the wide white line of foam below the spidery bridge. The Rapids It was a vast cavern of metal sheathing and spidery girders, filled with sound and detail. Space Platform It was a secondary or even a tertiary road, represented on the map by a spidery line, and was taken by driver Vera Laramore because there was no better. Tam o' the Scoots There was a fire escape at every other one of these windows—the usual spidery affair of black-painted iron, clinging vinelike to the bricks. The Rich Little Poor Boy Over the whole are scattered a few patches of colour, in the shape of spidery lines and blotches, as yet only just dense enough to attract attention. Chatterbox, 1906 The two pilots appeared side by side on the screen, sitting amidst a spidery network of dully gleaming pipe lines and nichrome humidification units. The Sky Trap Then it was the size of a basketball, and then it swelled enormously and put out spidery metal legs with large splay metal feet on them and alighted and settled gently to the ground. The Pirates of Ersatz A spidery staircase with dark wood bannisters rose steeply from one side and wound away out of sight. The Cat in Grandfather's House Mirestone held out a glistening white feather in his long spidery fingers. The White Feather Hex On his right was a spidery little man of about fifty, his slick-back hair so tight against his skull that it gave his head the appearance of a weasel's. —And Devious the Line of Duty The eight months since the last ship landing was more than enough for the building of the gigantic, spidery, half-mile-high structure which would handle this planet’s interstellar commerce. Sand Doom But I shall never forget the spidery black-painted galleries and staircases and the whitewashed walls of the corridor. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography She had already recognized the handwriting on the envelope, not as Tom's familiar flowing hand, but as the spidery, wavering script of Mrs. Gray. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer Arms—long and spidery, with crooked, knotted fingers. Scottish Ghost Stories He began then to crawl very slowly forward towards my chin, and it was as though he were dragging spidery strands of nerves through my body, fitting them all on to stiff, tight wires. The Dark Forest She must be talking about the spidery metal stairs. Omnilingual "Waal, by Juniper!" drawled Rafter, as he gathered his spidery form together and scrambled to his feet. The Border Boys Across the Frontier When the dragon fly larva first hatches it is very small and its legs are rather long and spidery, but it eats and eats and eats,—my, how it eats! The Insect Folk The Chief grimaced, but he went back to the assembly of the spidery device. Space Tug She was a good reader, and had a sympathetic, if rather spidery touch. A Popular Schoolgirl They crossed spidery overpasses that spanned busy workshops and agriculture bays under cultivation. The Universe — or Nothing With that Ozias Lamb gave a quick glance, pointed with driest humor, from under his bent brows at Simon Basset's great jumble of gray hair and Doctor Prescott's spidery sprawl of red wig. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel When he reached the break in the water-washed rock just ahead, the spidery horror would strike and against its attack he was defenseless. Plague Ship So they sat down at the spidery table, saying little; Jack quite well entertained with his hand frequently coming in contact with Bluebell's on the board. Bluebell A Novel It was once more a morning of early June, sunrise was blushing over the meadows, and the gossamers of hoar dew lay in spidery veils of woven light and melted under the rosy beams. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Endymion rafted his tenuous form across with a delicate straddle of spidery limbs. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Not that there was anything right-down beastly about Nicky but his spidery appearance. The Torch and Other Tales When I am feverish I dream of that last climb up the spidery stair, with Jessamine's jaws widened into a soundless laugh, and The Jinnee's light playing at hide-and-seek upon her. A Woman Named Smith A ricketty waggon—not an English hay-cart, but a spidery trap, with high wheels, so called—and a dilapidated buggy were placed at their disposal. Bluebell A Novel "Burned it too long—look!" and he produced in his spidery hand a small mass of charcoal. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays Her dress bagged about over her long waist and spidery arms. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 His gaze followed the gaunt, spidery old man as he returned to the opening for another long survey of the valley below. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Some big flakes and a fish-house were built over the water, on spidery legs. Sweetapple Cove With a bound he was at the window, looking down at the spidery threads of fire escape ladders, leading down to the utter dark of the service alley. Out of the Ashes Those great furnaces, with tall iron cylinders and galleries, and spidery contrivances, and black pipes, and engines swinging vast burdens about, and moving wheels, are fearfully interesting and magnificent. Father Payne You got little spidery things—specks and dots—in your eyes?” Between the Dark and the Daylight He is rather like that detestable and spidery thing the araucaria, which has a wound for every tender hand, and invites no bright-eyed feathered songsters to perch or build among its sinister branches. The Silent Isle Noureddin Ali took it between spidery fingers and examined it like a schoolmaster conning a boy's composition. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace There is something spidery about him, you know. Mary Wollaston So did the spidery bridge that swings the ferry across the Old Harbour's mouth. Essays in Rebellion The hands were big and strong, wrinkled and seamed, their rough backs spotted like a toad's, the wrists covered with long spidery hairs. Tom Grogan But the pen in his trembling hand made queer spidery marks in the ledgers now, and his figure seven was very likely to look like a drunken letter "z." Emma McChesney and Co. He had boldly scorned the idea then, and had said: "So it's music—a cold, senseless thing of spidery marks on clean white paper—that is my only rival!" Miss Billy's Decision He told the disciples, for instance, that his former Guru was really "a great big spidery Entity from hell." Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult "It looks rather spidery, doesn't it?" she remarked. A Fair Barbarian He whispered this information to Justice Rowan's brother behind his big, speckled hand covered with its red, spidery hair. Tom Grogan And there is a half-moon window over the door above it, with little panes of glass held in place by a spidery parasol frame, and supported on spindling columns once painted white. The Under Dog It had been stronger than it seemed, the spidery, invisible line connecting that office and that house, along which had run twice a day the hard dumpling that dwelt in Mr. Dempster's bosom. Stephen Archer and Other Tales On the steep hill past the deck, legions of spidery plants advanced imperceptibly toward the garden. Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult Sherwood guided his glossy team and light spidery vehicle with the greatest delicacy and skill. The Gray Dawn He fumbled for his newly-purchased eyeglasses, because Lady Cantourne's handwriting was thin and spidery, as became a lady of standing; also the gas was so d——d bad. With Edged Tools Above, the pale blue streak of sky is cut by a maze of spidery lines,—an infinite cobweb of electric wires. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints I said evenly, trying to keep looking through him and into the wall behind his black, big, spidery body. The Enormous Room It rose in the smoky sunset, stretching out spidery tendons of steel to the heavens, and from its interior came a mighty clangor. Together Behind, in the west, were straggling flat-buildings, mammoth deserted hotels, one of which was crowned with a spidery steel tower. The Web of Life By some clumsiness his foot catches in one of its spidery claws, and with a crash it topples over. A Terrible Secret Now flags are up everywhere—the colors of the Empire and of Prussia, and often enough just a huge yellow square bearing the spraddled, black, spidery design of the Imperial eagle. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front Brown, introduced timidly by Jervis, and a little overawed by the solemnity of the bedchamber, came in and painted solidly his large signature after the spidery lines of his mistress. Old Lady Mary A Story of the Seen and the Unseen Finally she found an envelope, brown with age, on which was written, in her own spidery handwriting, “Recipe for apple jelly.” The Grey Lady The fire-escape, therefore, was in perfect condition, and safe as such a spidery stairway could be made, with strong rails and good treads. The Boy Scouts on a Submarine It was superscribed in a girl's spidery tracery, sealed with blue wax, and a sentimental French seal and motto. A Terrible Secret It was written in an old-fashioned, lady's hand, angular and spidery. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life But Felice hadn't minded, she had inscribed a card, on which in her spidery slanting scrawl was written, Little Miss By-The-Day He blinked at the crabbed spidery caligraphy, and handed the letter back. The Grey Lady She looked, with her bright, eager face and spidery legs, distinctly bird-like. The Extra Day Cara was one of the babies, and an extremely ugly baby he was, for a thin body, long, spidery limbs, homely head and funny little tail gave him a curious, unfinished look. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories My underpinning is good, too; I'm not one of these fellows with spidery legs and a barrel-chest. The Valley of the Giants Presently two dots were visible, looking little more than huge water- bugs in the perspective, the foreshortening changing the long sixty-foot shells into spidery creatures with spreading legs. Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home The captain gave a sudden bluff laugh when Fitz emerged on the little spidery bridge far above the deck. The Grey Lady Then he encountered a fat, hunch-backed woman, with long spidery legs, wearing a ghostly, diaphanous skirt. The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein They looked peculiarly grotesque with their spidery legs and thin faces. Rainbow's End Instantly the grey, spidery hairs turned to a dull red. The Blind Spot The view ahead, over the boot, was blackness, bordered by spidery trees and branches whipping in the wind. Cap'n Warren's Wards Overhead, on the spidery bridge, far up in the howling night, Luke FitzHenry, returning from the enervating tropics, stares sternly into the night, heedless of the elemental warfare. The Grey Lady "And so it's music—a cold, senseless thing of spidery marks on clean white paper—that is my only rival," he cried. Miss Billy By placing themselves in a circle just below these little spidery blossoms of weak and uncertain coloring, some of the Indian cucumber's leaves certainly make them at least noticeable, if not showy. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors A tricky place that would be, with sudden exits and even suddener entrances, and with damp, winding, spidery places to hoard treasure in, or to hide oneself in. Irish Fairy Tales And reaching up her little spidery hand, wonderfully steady considering its age, she buttoned the top button but one of Barbara's bodice. The Patrician Your ever loving father, "EDWARD PIERSON" Across this letter lying on her knees, Noel gazed at the spidery movement on the wall. Saint's Progress Wherefore, because of the blight cast upon Tahiti's wonderful beauty by the spidery human vermin that infest it, I am minded to write, not of Tahiti, but of the Nature Man. The Cruise of the Snark And I accompanied her along the spidery bridge to the top of the ’midship-house, to look at the one rooster and the four dozen fat hens in the ship’s chicken-coop. The Mutiny of the Elsinore She wore a guipure pelerine of spidery texture, a gown of blue velvet, the graceful corsage of which was buttoned with opals, and her hair in bands as smooth and shining as ebony. Beatrix She had a longing to get up, and take the hand, the chill, spidery hand of age, and thrust it into her breast, and say: "Feel that, and cease!" The Patrician Farther on, over beyond the shed, the yard of the plant, dotted with other buildings and those spidery iron structures which she had previously noticed, stretched away until it was lost in the darkness. The White Moll High on the ridge above them, drawn in dark thin lines against the sky, was a figure looking so long and lean as to be almost spidery. The Man Who Knew Too Much The others heard, but went on somnolently feeding with spidery movements of their lean arms. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows Thus, throughout the organization of the Oligarchy, our own organization, weblike and spidery, was insinuating itself. The Iron Heel When she was conducted into his presence he was squatting in a corner of the chamber upon his six spidery legs. The Chessmen of Mars Through the picket fence she could make out the looming shadows of many buildings, and spidery iron structures that seemed to cobweb the darkness, and—and—Her face mirrored her misery. The White Moll Orde clucked to his horses, and the spidery wheels of the buckboard swung lightly over the wet hummocks of the clearing, to come to a stop opposite the men. The Riverman But you couldn’t get along without masters of some sort, and there arose a new set of masters—not the great, virile, noble men, but the shrewd and spidery traders and money-lenders. Martin Eden James had his three spidery, sneaking, thieving, cold-blooded kangaroo-dogs with him. Joe Wilson and His Mates And they enslaved you over again—but not frankly, as the true, noble men would do with weight of their own right arms, but secretly, by spidery machinations and by wheedling and cajolery and lies. Martin Eden |
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