Spiders
['spaɪdɚ]
Examples
- Spiders and rice pudding. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thank you, I prefer spiders, she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I wish you had been poked into cells and black holes, and run over by rats and spiders and beetles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Unlike most other spiders, it hunts its game without the aid of webs or snares. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Scorpions abounded, and a number of early spiders, which, however, had no spinnerets for web making. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Tracing mile after mile along between the dying ferns and the wet white spiders' webs, she at length turned her steps towards her grandfather's house. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Spiders, again, barely undergo any metamorphosis. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Edited by Lenore