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Esopo - Fables
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... over the Lion, and, buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away. But shortly afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb and was eaten by a spider. He greatly lamented his fate, saying, "Woe is me! that I, who can wage war successfully with the hugest ...
Appleton Victor - Two Miles A Minute On The Rails
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... that the forward end of the locomotive had received more than a little injury. The pilot, or cow-catcher, looked more like an iron cobweb than it did like anything else. The wheels of the forward trucks had not left the track, but the impact of the heavy locomotive with ...
Aristotle - History Of Animals
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... shape, and is now called a chrysalis. The outer shell is hard, and the chrysalis moves if you touch it. It attaches itself by cobweb-like filaments, and is unfurnished with mouth or any other apparent organ. After a little while the outer covering bursts asunder, and out flies the ...
Aristotle - History Of Animals
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... first of all the clerus-this consists in a growth of little worms on the floor, from which, as they develop, a kind of cobweb grows over the entire hive, and the combs decay; another diseased condition is indicated in a lassitude on the part of the bees and in ...
Balzac Honoré De - Two Poets
[ FRENCH FICTION]
... the middle; the walls covered with handbills and begrimed by friction of all the workmen who had rubbed past them for thirty years; the cobweb of cordage across the ceiling, the stacks of paper, the old-fashioned presses, the pile of slabs for weighting the damp sheets, the rows of ...
Balzac Honoré De - A Daughter Of Eve
[ FRENCH FICTION]
... more than they do on the great things of life. You all have a way of tipping the world sideways with a straw, a cobweb--" "Sarcasm!" she said, "I might have expected it!" "Marie, my angel, I only said those words to wring your secret out of you." "My secret ...
Barr Amelia - The Man Between
[ FICTION]
... to a window for a few moments and so hid his emotion until he could get himself together." "Oh, what a tale! What a cobweb tale! I believe a word of it," and she laughed merrily. " ''Tis true as gospel, Granny." "Name her, then. Who was the woman?" "Dora." "It ...
Baum Frank L. - The Road To Oz
[ FICTION]
... the Princess Ozma's other presents. Next came a tall, beautiful woman clothed in a splendid trailing gown, trimmed with exquisite lace as fine as cobweb. This was the important Sorceress known as Glinda the Good, who had been of great assistance to both Ozma and Dorothy. There was no humbug ...
Baum Frank L. - Glinda Of Oz
[ FICTION]
... mouth displaying rows of sharp teeth. Horned toads hopped about; each of the four upper corners of the room was festooned with a thick cobweb, in the center of which sat a spider as big around as a washbasin, and armed with pincher-like claws; a red-and-green lizard ...
Blackmore Richard - Lorna Doone
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... too comfortably, and went along the stonework), at least a peck of snow had entered, following its own bend and fancy; light as any cobweb. With some trouble, and great care, lest the ancient frame should yield, I spread the lattice open; and saw at once that not a moment ...
Blackmore Richard - Lorna Doone
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... to poke her broom right in under the sealskin cloak, where Lorna lay unconscious, and where her precious breath hung frozen, like a silver cobweb; but I caught up Betty's broom, and flung it clean away over the corn chamber; and then I put the others by, and fetched my ...

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