"Last time, we felt what we call the cobweb effect," Rice said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
As for Flush's verses, they are what I call cobweb verses, thin and light enough; and Arabel was mistaken in telling you that. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
All are held together by cobweb, which is the favourite cement of bird masons. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
The cobweb was the magic clue by which mankind was to be rescued from all its errors, and guided safely back to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference
They worked rapidly around the slope, cutting a clean smooth groove to which the 'cobweb' could be anchored and sealed. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
A kind of cobweb on her head which she called a "bunnet.". From Wordnik.com. [The Opal Serpent] Reference
Finally the cat looked up and saw under the beams a cobweb. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Her long damp sticky brown hair clung to her back like a cobweb. From Wordnik.com. [Wipe Your Feet at the Door of Sex] Reference
Got nerves like a cobweb, I reckon, a smart Banjo-twang makes 'em jar. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891] Reference
"You're certain it -- the cobweb -- isn't worrying you now?" asked Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Inns, beholding this cobweb-headed youth continually coming through the. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
"It is like that a little," and she pointed to a cobweb stretching from. From Wordnik.com. [Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way] Reference
A cobweb on the lapel of my coat so that he may have something to brush off!. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable where there is no strain on it. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference
The field offered here to the cobweb-spinning German brain is wide and attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
But a single consideration sweeps away the entire argument as though it were a cobweb. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
The critic disposes of his cobweb linen and transparent lawn, of no shelter from the cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
The pilot, or cow-catcher, looked more like an iron cobweb than it did like anything else. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
How think that diplomacy's cobweb fibre could hold the eagle, panting for an upward flight?. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
"You are right; I was rather bold in entering the cobweb of the French spiders," said Gentz. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
These little panels were also used in the center of cobweb caning in chair backs and settees. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
Of course she thought she had swept away the cobweb and the bubble, and I've no doubt she did. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Before its irresistible energy the most formidable obstacles become as cobweb barriers in its path. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
And when I asked her if the cobweb were bothering her, she said both it and the bubble had vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Its fabric was thin as cobweb, and there was nothing "divine" about it; nothing but the plain fact that. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
He came on again, he made a grab for her dress, but the rotten fabric parted like a cobweb in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
(Trapping prey, supporting egg cases, protection, and means of moving, as in the case of cobweb spiders.). From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
But would such a tissue of cobweb fallacies disguise the truth from any man of ordinary taste and understanding?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
A swimming and jewelled blue predominates, as of sapphires being melted and spun into skeins of shifting cobweb. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
Their nests, made of a cobweb material, and shaped like a soda-water bottle, are firmly attached to the branches. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
She said, -- yes, I remember now just what she did say -- she said that a pretty bubble had burst and become a cobweb. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
He had cut it with a hatchet, happily not badly, and wanted me to dress it, his mother having already put a cobweb on. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
"Pretty snug little place, eh, El?" he said cheerfully, looking about him and lunging for the nearest cobweb with his broom. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
There were other pieces, too: an especially beautiful punch suede peach-coloured frock, a voluminous cobweb maxi dress, a lairy lurex bikini. From Wordnik.com. [No sign of Kate, but even without its muse Topshop's new look attracts star quality] Reference
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