"Daddy longlegs" Quotes from Famous Books
... floor," up one flight of stairs from the street. Luckily I was still in the draw-dining-room—a fantastic apartment crowded with nouveau-art furniture all out of drawing, like daddy longlegs—when the woman tapped and peeped in. If I had gone upstairs to my own top-floor room, I'm sure, being a prim person, she would have considered it improper to summon me down, and I should have ... — Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson |