The former Forest Monster, now content to stay small and keep a low profile, continues to this day to spin the most delicate and beautiful webs you can imagine.

Some, that do not perch, have no hind toe; and birds that swim have broad webs stretched between their front toes, like Ducks.

Besides the chase and agriculture, their occupations are restricted to the manufacture of extremely rude weapons, for which they purchase the iron, when required, from the Filipinos, and of the coarse webs made by the women, and of wicker work.

Probably there are few observant persons of rural habits who cannot call to mind one or another still autumn morning, when from a cloudless, though perhaps hazy, sky, they have noted, over a wide area, steady descent of countless spider webs, many of them well-nigh perfect in all details of their construction.

No cricket chirped under the hearth, no fly buzzed on the window-pane, no spiders came forth from the dilapidated, dangling webs.

These, however, are idle speculations; they are the materials from which sages spin their dry and ethereal webs.

Feet grayish-blue, with dusky webs and claws.

The drying stalks were woven with endless spider-webs, all white with frost.

This day to them, too, blessing brings, Which clears from envious webs their guardian angel's wings.

And from his wig they spin The golden webs that, one by one, Draw Spain and Flanders in; He will grow proud ere they have done, A most egregious sin, And one to which my mind Has never yet declined.

I'll bet that, in time, I will be able to spin the most gorgeous webs you can imagine!

Seven months together I was lame with a strange pain in one foot, twice delivered from a bloody flux; a spurious cataract in my eye, with incessant webs and networks before it, hath continued these eight years, * *

The egrets or ear feathers are tipped with blackish-brown, the inner webs being white varied with wood-brown.

And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

There is a brother of the Least Sandpiper, hardly any bigger, and so much like it that you can hardly tell them apart, unless you notice that this one has two little webs between the roots of the front toes.

The marginal webs of the toes are much more dilated.

Presently the watcher perceived that a myriad spider-webs filled the sunshine with a delicate dancing glister.

They swarm during the rains; and, when their tough webs are wet, those that lead from the wire to the ground sometimes effectually short circuit the wire.

Yesterday, in driving home from Pine Ridge with Sylvia, we noticed that even the wood edges had the appearance of being scorched by fire, and many of the old orchards where we go in May for apple blossoms are wrecks meshed in the treacherous slimy webs.

The wooden benches were clean scrubbed, and he didn't object to absence of the annoying spider-webs, which had always tickled his nose.

With that he tears away the ugly webs of tent-caterpillars from the fruit trees, and sometimes eats more than forty caterpillars without stoppinghe is so fond of them.