UNEF's first starships had been possessed of a kind of spidery, delicate beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
Everything is painted - even over a plug socket in the gallery wall - with a kind of spidery intricacy, like a giant map from. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The penmanship, cramped and spidery, was familiar. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Summer women peeking from between their spidery fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Diary]
Her dress bagged about over her long waist and spidery arms. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
There was a spidery mechanical gizmo that nearly ate Michael. From Wordnik.com. [The Tour, The Money, The Magic] Reference
He retrieved a form and started filling it out in spidery script. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
A spidery fracture surrounded a small black hole in the upper right. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
Jeri Lee-Bose's spidery left hand lingers on the pommel of her sword. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
Apart from his relentless spidery hand, Lord Vandaariff did not move. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
Far above, the roof was dimly visible, a spidery tangle of trusswork. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
She was just sitting there, under the spidery branches of that tree. From Wordnik.com. [Man Loses Life] Reference
Weider steepled his spidery, blue-veined fingers in front of his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
I turned the object over in my hands and saw, in a precise, spidery hand. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
Mirestone held out a glistening white feather in his long spidery fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather Hex] Reference
Fountain pen and paper were still frozen in Pollack's spidery black hands. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Her face lit up as she spied masses of spidery text scrawled with copious flourishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
In less than two minutes, he held a small telescope attached to three long, spidery legs. From Wordnik.com. [calling on dragons]
Veins spidery, skin blotchy, upper lip frozen, eyebrows so thin you can count every hair. From Wordnik.com. ['Joan Rivers': Uncut And Unvarnished] Reference
A sheet of thick, deckle-edged notepaper scrawled with spidery writing in pale green ink. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
Carefully unrolling the paper, he saw that it was covered with the spidery writing of magic. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
A new patient had come to him asking what she could do about the spidery veins on her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
Dark, spidery veins looked sketched in india ink against the translucent whiteness of her shin. From Wordnik.com. [html]
The ecumenical patriarch's handwriting was thin and spidery, but clear enough to be easy to read. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
His tough, sinuous, spidery arms, five fathoms long, wavered visibly in the blue transparent gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
He straightened back, stood up, felt with spidery moves of his hands toward the wall close by him. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
They crossed spidery overpasses that spanned busy workshops and agriculture bays under cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
Quickly, before the spell dissipated, Morhion read the spidery runes written in a long-dead tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
They were inscribed with spidery impressions that glinted in all colors if a light shone upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
A spidery staircase with dark wood bannisters rose steeply from one side and wound away out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
The spidery finger of the broadcast radiator lifted a gaunt black needle against the white of the Antarctic continent. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
But I shall never forget the spidery black-painted galleries and staircases and the whitewashed walls of the corridor. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Torgul's hand, its long, slender fingers spidery to Terran eyes, rubbed back and forth across his chin before he answered. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Nay, your Grace, he gave it at once to the clown, for I know it was the clown standing with him by the spidery confusion of his limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
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