The train crept over spidery bridges, spanning waterdrops, and crawled for miles beneath ranges of big timber snowsheds.
The creature's great eyes became filmy, while the revolting spidery body slewed here and there across the jar, all the time whipping and thrashing at the strangling air.
It certainly did not look imposing--a mass of spidery tubes mazing round a bulky black box, which was, Lance guessed, some new type of generator.
Strange, moundlike shapes appeared far below, mounds grouped in orderly rows and clusters, with streets running between them, thronged with tiny, spidery dots.
And reaching up her little spidery hand, wonderfully steady considering its age, she buttoned the top button but one of Barbara's bodice.
How narrow apparently are these curved and smooth embankments that carry us across the ravines, and how spidery look the firmly-braced bridges that span the torrents!
It was a vast cavern of metal sheathing andspidery girders, filled with sound and detail.
Where these ended on the south, the spidery arch of the big bridge sprang seaward to drop in the less distinct Brooklyn.
While the three boys sprang on the side galleries of the car and began to draw off the protecting cover, the visitors advanced under the high, wide, spidery planes and gazed in wonder at the metal marvel.
And with each swing of the fragile crane, the spidery ladder and Buck moved back and forth like a shadow.
Pete stepped forward and gazed into The Spidery scarred and lined face.
Just under Spearman's Hill lay the spidery line of the ferry; the pont itself was at the opposite side of the river, but the rope was intact.
Then he would rub their noses, and speak to them cheerfully, and note their congealed vapours where these had ascended and frozen in shining spidery hands of ice upon the walls and rafters of the byre.
It was written in a striking feminine hand, which moulded the spidery German characters into something unusually strong and characteristic.
She looked, with her bright, eager face and spidery legs, distinctly bird-like.
Mr. Blake was poring over some sheets of white ruled foolscap, closely written in a very cramp and spidery hand.
The envelope was white; the writing, a lady's delicate spidery tracery; the postmark New York.
Aunt Ann with her ringlets, and her spidery kind hands, and her grave old aquiline smile--a fine old lady, Aunt Ann!
Over her square-chinned, aquiline old face a trembling passed; the spidery fingers of her hands pressed against each other and interlaced, as though she were subtly recharging her will.
No doubt there was a sensation of the spidery in my embrace.
I pored over her spidery epistles till my head ached.
V A VISIT TO THE COUNT The bland serenity of Mr. Campbell's face was disturbed by thin, spidery lines of perplexity, and the guileless blue eyes were vacant as he stared at the top of his desk.
For an hour or more he sat in a great, comfortable chair in the smoking-room of his own home, the guileless blue eyes vacant, staring, and spidery lines in the benevolent forehead.
The spidery pedestrian was followed by a score of staring children of all ages and sizes.
It had the appearance of a large camera, set on a spidery tripod near the edge of the flat roof, its lens pointing out over the anchorage.
Farther on, over beyond the shed, the yard of the plant, dotted with other buildings and those spidery iron structures which she had previously noticed, stretched away until it was lost in the darkness.
So they sat down at the spidery table, saying little; Jack quite well entertained with his hand frequently coming in contact with Bluebell's on the board.
The huge wheel, made of flail-like pieces set horizontally on spidery arms, went thrashing round, scooping the standing corn on to the knife, which cut it and thrust it into the mysterious recesses of the machine in the twinkling of the blade.
