What is "cobwebs"

Usage examples of "cobwebs".

The windows were unshuttered and uncurtained except by cobwebs, and so filthy the sunlight was dimmed to a pale glimmer.

Two worn bootheels they could see, standing on emptiness, and above that a man-sized bulk of gray dust so thick it looked like fur, joined to the ceiling and walls by lazy, dusty arcs of cobwebs that must be as thick as ropes.

The room was habitable again: dust and cobwebs vacuumed away, rugs back in place, furniture gleaming with polish.

Lace, delicate and fragile as cobwebs, framed her shoulders and hung in graceful gathers from the elbow-length sleeves of her gown.

At first the features were unfamiliar, the nose bold and prominent, the mouth half-veiled by something that looked like a mass o filthy cobwebs, the eyes .

Andy started to descend, sneezing and brushing away cobwebs with his flashlight.

Though it was wreathed with cobwebs and the mummilied bodies of long-dead insects, it was not as disgusting a sight as Andy himself.

The entry was an even tighter fit for the stout-bodied man than for me, and he was festooned with cobwebs and powdered with dust.

Even when they do not speak, their quarrel hangs like cobwebs in the room.

The old man was scowling and shaking cobwebs from his elaborate sleeves.

After the darkness of that room, the corridor seemed full of grey filmy light, as though dream-spiders had joined the walls with their cobwebs, in which innumerable white moths, so tiny that they could not be seen, were struggling.

The night was still ensnared there on the gorse bushes grey with cobwebs and starry dewdrops.

The dew-grey cobwebs enwrapped the flowers of their hearts--yet every prisoned flower could be seen.

Her hair was guiltless now of cobwebs, but haloed her face with fluffy little curls of silvery whiteness, above which, like a crown, was a little cap of dotted muslin, pure as snow.

Mrs Booth no because it was all your despair locked away in that room there with the smoke and the cobwebs, pouring a drink with that old man and his dustpan pretending there was some reason to get up in the morning?