The "cobwebby feeling" of the fingers might mean an actual raying-out of some subtle form of matter.
This was in accord with the accounts of a "cobwebby feeling" which both Maxwell and Flammarion had drawn from their mediums.
The front door was open as I had left it, and I paused for a moment in the cobwebby hall.
They were crossing the hall now--the cobwebby hall--and the next moment I saw a young man standing in the open door.
She walked slowly down the nave and up the dusty, worm-eaten flight of stairs into the cobwebby regions above.
He's gone up those dusty stairs into a little musty, cobwebby gallery.
The stamens have cobwebby threads, white filaments, and yellow anthers, the pistil is green and the curved capsule is downy or hairy.
The flower-heads are nearly three inches across, with cream-white or rarely purple flowers, and the bracts are caught together with silky, cobwebby down.
Reject fungi which have a cobwebby veil or ring when young, and those with slimy caps and clay-colored spores.
The species are to be distinguished from other ochre-spored agarics with a cobwebby veil by the fact that the veil in Cortinarius is superficial and the gills powdery.
In some specimens when young there is a slight cobwebby veil which very soon disappears.
It was no longer soft and cobwebby as it had been then, like down fluttering against his cheeks, but sodden and discolored, as it lay on the rock with little rivulets of water running from it.
I could now look within and see a magical tangle of yellow anthers delicately draped with cobwebby ropes of pollen.
It is a beautiful flower, whose petals are a clear rose-lilac without spots or marks, with long, whitish, cobwebby hairs on their middle third.
There were fine cobwebby lines around the eyes and mouth, and a deep one between the brows, and Poppy wished that they were upon her face, too, for they were beautiful.
Sometimes, in more daring moods, he would venture farther afield, balancing cautiously on a beam to some remote cobwebby corner to examine nearer an object that had lured him long with its air of the unattainable.
They prowled through the islands, crossed the cobwebby bridges from rock to rock above the Falls, and finally sprawled on a bald ledge of stone that jutted far out into the turbulent river.
To pounce upon him at the psychological moment, to discover in whose cool and cobwebby cellar he is dreaming out his golden summer of manhood--that is what a foreigner can never, never hope to achieve, without competent local aid.
I wandered about this sunless and cobwebby labyrinth, the old woman pensioners flitting round me like bats in the twilight.
Leaves flocculent orcobwebby or glaucous below when fully grown (i.
Queen Hildegarde, up and up, among the dusty, cobwebby sunbeams, which settle like a crown upon her fair head.
At first you don't notice it as it sneaks along the ground, some time above and some time below, as it feels disposed, and then suddenly you see it's cobwebby outlines as plainly as the concealed animals in a newspaper puzzle.
There was a trace of embarrassment in his manner, but there was none in mine as I led him to the cellar and watched with satisfaction while he clasped a cobwebby box of--dare I whisper it?
All the descriptions tally: it is the sensation of a slight pricking, having its seat in the palm of the hand and its maximum intensity on the mounts at the finger-tips.
He said: 'I begin to feel the cobwebby sensation in my fingers; let us see if I can attract this fan.
This surface is viscid, and as the insect leaves the blossom retains the grains in contact (F), which in turn withdraw others from the mass by means of the cobwebby threads by which the pollen grains are continuously attached.
The pollen of the laurel differs from that of most of the Heath blooms, its grains being more or less adherent by a cobwebby connective which permeates the mass as indicated in my magnified representation (B, Fig.
She had been crying--the cobwebby handkerchief lay beside her, wrecked and ruined forever--but she looked very happy.
She passed her cobwebby handkerchief across her lips and her hand trembled.
The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed?
At once the folio was closed and put back on a cobwebby shelf.
I stripped off my clothes and grovelled naked on the clay floor, seeking relief in cobwebby corners.
A scurrying rat started a few lumps of coal in the slide, and a cobwebby rope hung ominously from one cross beam, giving him a passing shudder.
He cast one swift glance back at the cobwebby window through which he had so recently arrived, and longed to be back again, out in the open with the bells, the good bells sounding a call in his ears.
