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Mary did not much care for these, partly because she disliked spiders and it was not clear to her whether Anansi was a spider or merely a man with spiderish features—both of which sounded dreadful.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

Mary did not much care for these, partly because she disliked spiders and it was not clear to her whether Anansi was a spider or merely a man with spiderish features—both of which sounded dreadful.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

Mary did not much care for these, partly because she disliked spiders and it was not clear to her whether Anansi was a spider or merely a man with spiderish features—both of which sounded dreadful.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

They were more like acrobats who were also engineers maybe that's what spiders are, too, but spiders conjure up a spiderish image, and those guys just weren't spiderish.

trees asakiyume 2006

Katie said nothing, but she could not help feeling that she must look rather spiderish.

The Three Clerks 2004

When, at short range, he realized that I held nothing for him he leapt suddenly at the bars and hung there, spread out to his full span, spiderish, snarling with contempt; then dropped to the floor and turning about walked delicately back to the corner from which I had lured him.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

The cancer vampire in front of him staggered, leaned far forward, and looked even more spiderish as its impos­sibly long fingers stretched to keep it from falling.

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

Katie said nothing, but she could not help feeling that she must look rather spiderish.

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

It doesn't fit, surprisingly since the novelist's spiderish fingers are surely thinner than those of the fleshy Byron, whose diaries are full of diet plans and accounts of his purging.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Although the animators have had a field day designing Scrooge — beaky nose and jutting chin, scraggly hair, skeletal hands and spiderish body — one is always cognizant of Carrey beneath that coating of bytes.

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