cobwebberies

• When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms, and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a —  Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
• Sweep away thy constitutional, sentimental and other cobwebberies; look eye to eye, if thou still have any eye, in the face of this big burly William Bastard: thou wilt see a fellow of most flashing discernment, of most strong lion-heart; -- in whom, as it were, within a frame of oak and iron, the gods have planted the soul of 'a man of genius '! —  Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
• a rhinoceros on all those cobwebberies. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09
• Large tracts occur, bestrewn with mere pedantisms, diplomatic cobwebberies, learned marine-stores, and inhuman matter, over which we shall have to skip empty-handed: this also was among the sad conditions of our Enterprise, that it has to go now too slow and again too fast; not in proportion to natural importance of objects, but to several inferior considerations withal. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11
• In the dreary mass of long-winded ceremonial nothingnesses, and intricate Belleisle cobwebberies, we seize this one poor speck of human foolery in the native state, as almost the memorablest in that stupendous business. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13

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