"Spider's web" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made very clear to the girl who comes up to the city, and that is that the ordinary ice cream parlor is very likely to be a spider's web for her entanglement. This is perhaps especially true of those ice cream saloons and fruit stores kept by foreigners. Scores of cases are on record where young girls have taken their first step towards "white slavery" in places of this character. And it is ...
— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various
... On the fore-finger of an Alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces of the smallest spider's web; The collars of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip of cricket's bone; the lash of film; Her waggoner, a small grey coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm, Prickt from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian
... saw was first a glow of yellow green, then a mass of blossoms, then a throat, chin and face, one after another, all veiled in a gossamer thin as a spider's web, and last—and these I shall never forget—a pair of eyes shining clear below and above the veil, and which gazed into mine with the same steady, full, unfrightened look one sometimes sees on the face of a summer moon when it bursts through a rift ...
— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith
... the door, the carriage started at once at a great pace, and the poor little fly was fairly caught in the spider's web. ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... he would tell her, as he haled her on to the sward beyond the arbor, "here it is, the story you told us yester-e'en. Here is the ring where they danced last night, the little folk, an' here is the glow-worm caught in the spider's web to ...
— A Warwickshire Lad - The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare • George Madden Martin
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