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Definition of Spiderwebs
1. spiderweb [n] - See also: spiderweb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiderwebs
Literary usage of Spiderwebs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"He overcame the difficulty of finding micrometer spiderwebs suitable for his work
by etching glass plates with hydrofluoric acid, an expedient which proved ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"He overcame the difficulty of finding micrometer spiderwebs suitable for his.
work by etching glass plates with hydrofluoric acid, an expedient which proved ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... by its own innate powers, as well as by the influence of the superior Intelligence.
He thinks with perfect freedom ; and if he spins his spiderwebs, ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"... dusky vast rooms with dim gilding ; forgotten libraries ' veiled under the
biggest spiderwebs in Europe :' for the rest, an uncommonly quiet place, ..."
5. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... and equal unto one another and unequal, and such-like spiderwebs (for, indeed,
those webs are not more useless to man's life, than were these subjects): ..."
6. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"Voltaire, at his leisure in Brussels or the Old-Palace and its spiderwebs, writes
much more expansively; not with insincerity, he either;—with endless airy ..."
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