water-spider

“Yet the goodness and infinite wisdom of the Creator,” he continued, “is as much shown in the formation and habits of the water-spider as in these suns, the size of which we cannot conceive.”

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

His name was Mizusumashi Kafu, his given name meaning 'water-spider', but he was known to his friends and enemies as Suma.

Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

However, many spiders do run along on the surface of the water, and you know there is one, the great water-spider, that lives habitually in it.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Luther concluded his argument with the words: 'I am sorry that the learned doctor only dips into Scripture as deep as the water-spider into the water -- nay, that he seems to fly from it as the devil from the

Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

Now, the water-spider lived by himself in a bubble of his own making.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

It was deep below me; a little above were clear shallows, where the water-spider pursued its toil of no result, and cast upon the yellow sand beneath a shadow that was not a shadow, but, refracted from the broken surface, spots of glittering light, clustered like the diamonds of a brooch, separate, yet linked, and tremulously bright.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

The water-spider weaves for herself a cocoon, makes it impervious to water, and fastens it by loose threads to the leaves of plants growing at the bottom of a still pool.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

I hear of you from all directions, walking up hills in the mornings and down hills in the afternoons, skimming round in wherries like a rather unsteady water-spider, blistering your hands upon gymnastic bars, receiving severe contusions on your nose from cricket-balls, shaking up and down on hard-trotting horses, and making the most startling innovations in respect to eating, sleeping, and bathing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

A change of diet was imperative, and, in seeking for this, he came into collision with the water-spider.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

Mr. Abe Tutts, of the Flour and Feed Store, skimmed the floor with the darting ease of a water-spider dragging beside him his far less active wife, a belligerent-appearing and somewhat hard-featured lady several years his senior.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916