Cobwebs
[kɔb,webz]
Examples
- I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Hearts confined by cobwebs would burst at last, and then Love was avenged. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Who of any dignity would take the trouble to clear cobwebs from a wild man's mind after such language as this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Clocks tick so loud, too, when you are sitting up alone, and you seem as if you had an under-garment of cobwebs on. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It brushes the Newgate cobwebs away, and pleases the Aged. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have come to clean away these cobwebs, said Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She was brown with the dust and draped with the cobwebs which had come from the walls of her hiding-place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And I have a liking for rust and must and cobwebs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Boxes and lumber filled it; old dresses draped its unstained wall--cobwebs its unswept ceiling. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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