"Spidery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of his wife's writing-table to wheel it near. By some clumsiness his foot catches in one of its spidery claws, and with a crash it topples over. Away goes the writing case, flying open and scattering the contents far and wide. The crash shocks baby's nerves, baby begins to cry, and the new-made mamma flies to ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming
... she was walking forward, with the others, toward this. Sachiko was saying: "I'm the lightest; let me go first." She must be talking about the spidery ...
— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper
... there was anything right-down beastly about Nicky but his spidery appearance. He would be kind to childer and never picked a quarrel with nobody—too cowardly for that; but he was ugly as they make 'em and a sulky fashion of man. He had a silly, sensitive nature and a suspicious bent of mind. Such a man, with a wife as pretty ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts
... Ozias Lamb gave a quick glance, pointed with driest humor, from under his bent brows at Simon Basset's great jumble of gray hair and Doctor Prescott's spidery sprawl of red wig. A subdued and half-alarmed chuckle ran through the company. Simon Basset chewed imperturbably, but Doctor Seth Prescott's handsome face ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... be, with sudden exits and even suddener entrances, and with damp, winding, spidery places to hoard treasure in, or ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens |
