"Long-legs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her companion positively. "Daddy-long-legs are real smart too. I caught one last night and I said over three times, 'Tell me which way our cow goes or I will kill you,' and it pointed in the direction of our pasture ...
— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson
... interrogation. Mr. Greeley divines the question before it is finished, and answers it pithily and quickly. The pen is then snatched from his mouth, dexterously dipped into his inkstand, and his fingers again travel across his transverse sheet of foolscap like a 'daddy-long-legs' caught in a storm. If his questioner is importunate, and insists on wasting his time, he continues his writing, never looking up, and either answers absent-mindedly, or in a low, impatient tone, tinged with a peculiar boyish nervousness. If his visitor ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe
... feel themselves bitten by the spider called father-long-legs, eat crabs and free ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci |
