Ill-fated weaver of myth

Usage examples of arachne.

A GARDEN IDYL With sagest craft Arachne worked Her web, and at a corner lurked, Awaiting what should plump her soon, To case it in the death-cocoon.

An hour earlier, the last course change had been implemented, bringing the ship into as close a direct vector with the target planet of Arachne as possible.

Jumped to Sirius and then back to Solomon system, we were already out of position to hit anywhere near Arachne itself.

And she reduced to beaky skin, Disgraceful among kith and kin Against her corner, humped and aged, Arachne wrinkled, past enraged, Beyond disgust or hope in guile.

Was the young bronze-orange leaf, That clung to the tree as a tress, Shooting lucid tendrils to wed With the vine-hook tree or pole, Like Arachne launched out on her thread.

Vpon a bed of Roses she was layd,As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant sin,And was arayd, or rather disarayd,All in a vele of silke and siluer thin,That hid no whit her alablaster skin,But rather shewd more white, if more might bee:More subtile web Arachne can not spin,Nor the fine nets, which oft we wouen seeOf scorched deaw, do not in th'aire more lightly flee.

Athena flew off the handle and whacked Arachne with her distaff, which might seem kind of like poor anger management until you consider that during the struggle against the Giants, she wasted Enceladus by dropping Sicily on him!

Marina said with relief at the sight of a pot of hot chocolate, a plate of sliced ham and real, honest cheesenone of that sad, pale stuff that Arachne had serveda nice chunk of hearty cottage loafand a fine Cox's Orange Pippin apple.

Marina said with relief at the sight of a pot of hot chocolate, a plate of sliced ham and real, honest cheese-none of that sad, pale stuff that Arachne had served-a nice chunk of hearty cottage loaf-and a fine Cox's Orange Pippin apple.