He got on by crawling, spiderlike, on toes and fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Ender's Game]
In general it was spiderlike; hairy with a round thorax, a rust-brown in color. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Rising]
Humans, Kyren, machines, and ... other things ambled spiderlike on the walkways. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
Long, spindly, spiderlike arms and legs were extended from within the shoulder area. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
Once he thought he spied an animal about the size of a man, but it had eight spiderlike legs. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
But while Slaine had been occupied, the other had begun crawling spiderlike up the tree for her. From Wordnik.com. [Demon From The Dark] Reference
He sat in his usual spot on the floor, with his two big spiderlike hands tangled up in a fishing net. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
After Mashimi, there was the office assistant, a tiny woman with an emaciated face and spiderlike hands. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
He is very tall and long of limb and tends to hunch over, making him seem very spiderlike when he moves. From Wordnik.com. [Meet the Reavers – “Serpent” Ref Jorenson, Ulfen Druid « Geek Related] Reference
The long fingers moved spiderlike over the web off wiring, impulsistors, solid and fluid state components. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
In the midst of the fumbling hopelessness of it all, I saw Jhoira ambling spiderlike up the main line toward safety. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
His flashbeam picked out a thing that scuttled on spiderlike legs, a steel carapace and arms ending in sword blades. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
A spiderlike alien, all arms and legs, was arguing with one of the ratlike creatures that were superintending the boarding. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
Elbryan had often referred to this forward-and-back skittering as spiderlike, an appropriate description to Pony's thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
Oba rapidly retreated a step, fearful she might skitter toward him, spiderlike, and with her mean little mouth bite him on the ankle. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of Creation]
Before he could inquire a short, spiderlike creature scrabbled through the door on a forest of many-jointed legs and shepherded them into. From Wordnik.com. [In Alien Hands]
With that in mind, he swung past a tree that stood on thick, spiderlike roots, followed a trail up over a rise, and spotted a lone Jackal. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
At once simpler and more sophisticated than the guns outside, it unfolded multiple spiderlike limbs and came for him at astonishing speed. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx's Folly]
The plants, each twice the height of a tall cyclops, with thorny branches surrounding a central maw, produced a spiderlike silk webbing with which they snared their prey. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Indomitable]
I immediately set it up with an IV drip of '80s New Wave music, and it responded by tilting its head, wiggling its ears, and blinking its many colorful, spiderlike eyes at random. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Cheap, Plastic Robots] Reference
Suddenly the figure darted at me with a spiderlike entirety. From Wordnik.com. [The Enormous Room] Reference
The red, more spiderlike lilies are L. radiata and they have foliage all winter. From Wordnik.com. [NWAOnline.com stories] Reference
Hopefully it'll inspire you to take maximum advantage of your own spiderlike potential. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Loafing Atlanta Feed] Reference
They sat down two stools away from us, gingerly climbing up on the things with spiderlike care and precision. From Wordnik.com. [Izzle Pfaff!] Reference
The fritters will have an irregular, spiderlike look, with a few loose pieces of onion escaping here and there. From Wordnik.com. [TriniGourmet.com] Reference
It was a spiderlike robot that fired on sight, giving us the chance to hang back and clean up those it may have missed. From Wordnik.com. [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference
"Here's the spot!" called Chester a few minutes later, as he identified the spiderlike landing from which a road led to Beartown. From Wordnik.com. [The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters] Reference
While M. Vautour sat spiderlike in the background, and the searchlight nicked its white surge across the wall, Dermot drew out a chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Emperor's Snuff-Box]
The letters were written to Swedish costume designer Max Goldstein in Dietrich's large, spiderlike handwriting and span over four decades. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
Squire Austin's woods are in front, and they stretch by the town to the sleepy river with its spiderlike bridge crossing the sandy marshes. From Wordnik.com. [A Mere Accident] Reference
“Gusty’s right over there,” he says, pointing to a tall, spiderlike man with a black bowl haircut and hollow eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
Now, if it was a spider powered hero who’s powers went haywire and he sprung four more legs and became more spiderlike…. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Sins: Huh? – The Bleat.] Reference
Long, spiderlike fingers gestured fruitlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
Alexander Calder's spiderlike sculpture. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Travel] Reference
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