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  • Tears were sliding down my face, my mouth gaped open and long saliva-strands of anguish hung in the air like finally spawn spider-webs.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • Tears were sliding down my face, my mouth gaped open and long saliva-strands of anguish hung in the air like finally spawn spider-webs.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • With spider-webs dropping down from the porch roof where icicles had hung, Rex, his tail wagging, went crazy sniffing around everywhere again.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • With spider-webs dropping down from the porch roof where icicles had hung, Rex, his tail wagging, went crazy sniffing around everywhere again.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • With spider-webs dropping down from the porch roof where icicles had hung, Rex, his tail wagging, went crazy sniffing around everywhere again.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • The sparkling, glowing remnants were flung into the blackness like spider-webs, the strands twinkling as they fell to earth.

    Hidden time revisited - Puerto Escondido 2004

  • The sparkling, glowing remnants were flung into the blackness like spider-webs, the strands twinkling as they fell to earth.

    Hidden time revisited - Puerto Escondido 2004

  • Silently sat he and looked at his coats-of-mail hanging vacant on the wall, his banner covered with spider-webs, and his sword and axe rusting there.

    Burlesques 2006

  • He was on his feet in a moment, breathlessly scanning the onrushing spider-webs.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • When his half-sunken Honda was recovered, the doors were all locked, and the tempered glass windows were shattered like spider-webs, but still intact.

    Excerpt: Second Glance by Jodi Picoult 2003

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