It looked like a stylized matte black daddy longlegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer]

And those poor old daddy longlegs have continued to suffer.    From Wordnik.com.  [British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather] Reference

A daddy longlegs scurried for cover as Alex's fingers probed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Starfighter]

An old reprobate daddy-longlegs, who has never said his prayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

A frail longlegs came tottering out from behind a high pile of cushions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Gate]

It moved with the bob and sway of a daddy longlegs -- it was another horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [From The Cutting-Room Floor] Reference

And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Bensen: Things my mom showed me] Reference

"I'll never again be able to see a daddy longlegs without shivering," said Jim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

The powerful photo of a daddy longlegs, with its pulsing body and shimmering legs, fascinated Amelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Days After the Wedding] Reference

Gabriel rolled onto his back and watched a daddy longlegs pick its way delicately across the ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

Daddy longlegs are also really poisonous, it's just that their fangs are too small and flimsy to bite humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [#23 into the crapometer] Reference

They're not daddy longlegs, much more refined and delicate and they spin, which I don't think the longlegs do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spiders from Mars] Reference

In Ireland "dapping" with the green drake or the daddy-longlegs is practised from boats on most of the big loughs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Friedman spent several years copying every word from a dictionary onto this paper, from woodpecker to daddy longlegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2001] Reference

The longlegs had not desired to harm him; the long-legs did not perceive him to be a threat, even though he was clearly armed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genellan- Planetfall]

With their irrational fear of spiders, arachnophobes are scared of both harmless daddy longlegs and poisonous brown recluse spiders.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest] Reference

But I carena the leg o 'a spin maggie (daddy longlegs)!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malcolm] Reference

Mite harvestmen are a little-known relative of the daddy longlegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

My brave little man, who slays bad guys, monsters and daddy longlegs for me every day, turned and looked at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life In a Shoe] Reference

Last year's wet autumn will also have helped daddy longlegs by providing the perfect conditions for larvae in the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

But what about the indoor daddy longlegs, the cellar spiders (Pholcidae), the type of spider that hangs out in my shower?.    From Wordnik.com.  [TimesArgus.com: Sports] Reference

Even as my own gaunt shadow (travestied as if I were the moonlight's daddy-longlegs), went before me down the slope; even.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

Daddy longlegs were recorded in Scotland and North East of England, suggesting the species is moving north with climate change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Spindly daddy longlegs scampered across a shady backyard hillside in Springdale where ecologist Rachel Carson played as a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

I call a sawfly, 'I said very patiently,' is a red animal, like a daddy-longlegs, but not so big, perhaps an inch long, perhaps less.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thin Ghost and Others] Reference

She usually hangs upside-down in a loose web above the shower head, and she is popularly known as a "cellar spider" or a "daddy longlegs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [TimesArgus.com: Sports] Reference

Then in the morning there’s a daddy longlegs on the tent zipper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starting from Scratch] Reference

Like the daddy-longlegs it has no venom, as well as super-long limbs.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference

S wet autumn helped daddy longlegs by providing the perfect conditions for larvae in the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Maybe they're Hallowe'en daddy longlegs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spider Wreck Chronicles] Reference

Don't think daddy longlegs are carnivorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [#23 into the crapometer] Reference

"We learned to not hurt bugs and not kill daddy longlegs and stuff, even though they're scary.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference

( "Did you see the longlegs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [columbiatribune.com stories] Reference