An old reprobate daddy-longlegs, who has never said his prayers. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] 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
The first shoal of gnats, mosquitoes, and lady-birds, which Geronimo ignored, was very soon followed by the daddy-longlegs, the lacewing flies, the smaller moths, and some of the more robust beetles. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
He can watch a ladybug make its way across the driveway for half an hour, happily play with a daddy-longlegs spider until the spider (usually missing at least one long leg by this point) escapes, examine with awe the trail of ants marching up our ash tree. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] 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
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
As no one appeared but an inquisitive daddy-longlegs, who examined her work with interest, she went to walk, got caught in a shower, and came home dripping. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
Now M. Coignard had not got twenty yards away from the house when the other lackey, a tall fellow, with the limbs of a daddy-longlegs, ran after him, shouting for the guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
That was the school where I told an older girl about a dream I had had (a giant daddy-longlegs came out of cellar door and father and brother battled it), not knowing it was a dream. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL] Reference
Hogarth here saying: "There you have a menagerie of gnome-land: observe those two black beetles, sedately nodding; and there is daddy-longlegs, working his legs gymnastically; and the three pairs of gallant grey stallions, galloping grandly neck to neck; and those two ridiculous beings, rubbing their palms together, round and round: each preoccupied, comically solemn, busied about its own quaint affairs -- like a varied gnomeland". From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Sea] 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
(generally two mayflies or daddy-longlegs on a small stout-wired hook) is carried out by the breeze and just allowed to touch the water. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Mama, of course, was way sicker than either Mason or I, so she stayed home, which was probably for the best if only because Mason got to not only hold a Madagascar hissing cockroach (who LOVED the warm, moistness of his palm and nearly settled in for the evening,) but also a whip scorpion (which isn't really a scorpion at all, but a kind of arachnid related to the daddy-longlegs called a "harvestmen.". From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference
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