Attic fillers

Usage examples of webs.

Delivev saw the garden from there, but there were other webs, small ones, scattered among the flowers, in the trees, and webless spiders as well, though Delivev had far less control over them.

Epeirae mentioned would be a useless repetition: all six employ the same methods and weave similar webs, save for certain details that shall be set forth later.

In the corners of our rooms, she stretches wide webs fixed by angular extensions.

Garden Spiders that form the object of my observations, two only, the Banded and the silky Epeira, remain constantly in their webs, even under the blinding rays of a fierce sun.

Locusts of different species on the webs in my menagerie, one on this, another on that.

The different webs which I inspect to study the food in the larder show me, among other joints, various Flies and small Butterflies and carcasses of almost-untouched Locusts, all deprived of their hind-legs, or at least of one.

Delivev seated Gildrum and herself upon it, and all around them the webs formed gossamer curtains.

He would sit before the webs for hours to watch armored warriors strut across the view, to glimpse a sword and shield.

He begged his mother to make her spiders move their webs outdoors, where he could watch sword practice and jousting, and she indulged him, as she did in most things.

He hoped she had not waited up all night, worrying about him while her webs remained blank.

And so she would see his route, know his destination, and when they spoke through the webs he would have to say that Falconhill was the nearest great holding he could find, where a youth might train under masters to be a knight.

He spoke to her occasionally, through the webs, perhaps two nights out of five, but he had little to say, only terse accounts of the vast forest, the birds, the beasts, the sun, the rain.

He had seen other holdings in the webs, richer ones, more powerful ones, no more distant than those two.

She let a little time pass and then went to the chamber of the webs, in case he decided to speak to her.

The troubadour did not see, as he walked, the webs that hung in the trees on either side of the road, nor did he know of the spiders that hid in the folds of his cloak, but before the castle had slipped full out of sight, he became aware of other spiders and other webs.