cob-webbed

It's true that baseball can behave like a passenger in a time machine who can't figure out what year to press; too often it gets stuck between its cob-webbed nostalgia and half-baked stabs at modernization.

Baseball's Romp on the Wild Side Jason Gay 2011

Mr. Koch, a son of the founder of Koch Industries and a chemical engineer and yachtsman, claimed Christie's sold him a bottle of 1870 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild in December 2008 whose label was cob-webbed, giving it a time-worn appearance.

Wine Collector Sues Christie's Vanessa O'Connell 2010

Mr. Koch, a son of the founder of Koch Industries and a chemical engineer and yachtsman, claimed Christie's sold him a bottle of 1870 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild in December 2008 whose label was cob-webbed, giving it a time-worn appearance.

Wine Collector Sues Christie's Vanessa O'Connell 2010

Mr. Koch, a son of the founder of Koch Industries and a chemical engineer and yachtsman, claimed Christie's sold him a bottle of 1870 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild in December 2008 whose label was cob-webbed, giving it a time-worn appearance.

Wine Collector Sues Christie's Vanessa O'Connell 2010

He lifted its cob-webbed knocker and let it fall, once.

Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

During this long harangue, he carefully decanted a cob-webbed bottle of claret into the goblet, which held nearly an English pint; and, at the conclusion, delivering the bottle to the butler, to be held carefully in the same angle with the horizon, he devoutly quaffed off the contents of the Blessed Bear of Bradwardine.

Waverley 2004

I took the opportunity to explore the various rooms we had bypassed the night before, finding, among other things, an airy, light-blue-and-white ballroom of wedding-cake splendour, lacking only a cob-webbed dinner service and Miss Haversham to complete the picture of merriment and life abruptly suspended by the years.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

In that moment all Parmenion's bitterness dissolved, as if a fresh spring breeze had whispered through the cob-webbed recesses of his mind.

Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

He had not calculated on the box being shifted from its dusty, cob-webbed corner.

The Hero of Garside School

Boxes, casks, barrels, old cob-webbed bottles lay about everywhere.

The Rockingdown Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1949