"Spider web" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I found, was floating freely in the air. So perfectly was it balanced with ultron and inertron that it had about the weight of a spider web. Ultimately, I suppose, it would have settled to the floor. But I had no time for such an idle experiment. I quickly pushed it to my couch, where I threw a couple of pillows and some of the bed clothes over it. Then I threw ...
— The Airlords of Han • Philip Francis Nowlan
... o'er yon sea which sunbeams cross And recross till they weave a spider web (Meshes of fire some great ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... simply stroking a quartz fiber with a straw wetted with castor oil (Fig. 9); it is rather larger than a spider line; but I have made beaded threads, using a fine fiber, quite indistinguishable from a real spider web, and they have the further similarity that they are just ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 • Various |
