The truth was that they had engaged in a pillow fight under pretence of killing a spider, which Blaise alone said that he had seen.

I should never have seen it, only I was watching a spider crawling up the wall, and it ran into the hole close to the end of the paper.

SEE Smith, Lloyd E. How to know spiders.

Beau sire, I came hither to aid a brave man infamously trapped, and instead I find an alert spider, snug in his cunning web, and patiently waiting until the gnats of France fly near enough.

Why will he permit the cunning and rapacious spiders, which in the very sanctuary of ethics and religion are laboriously weaving webs from their own bowels, to catch him with their wretched sophistries?and devour him, body, soul, and substance? Let him know, as he must one day with shame and terror own, that whoever holds slaves is himself responsible for the relation, into which, whether reluctantly or willingly, he thus enters.

Can't you see that?" "I can admit that you do not look like what I had in mind," replied the spider.

Thanks to the Commune you now preach in the prisons of the Republic; you may confess, if you like, the spiders of your dungeons, and give the holy viaticum to the rats which play around your legs!

But Denis, the reasonable member of the band, began to explain why it was they had made so much noise "Blaise said that he had seen a spider.

"Suddenly the skeleton shriveled up into an indescribably hideous and dwarf-like form, just as when you bring a large spider into the focus of a burning glass, and watch the purulent blood hiss and bubble in the heat."

"Dost thou hear me, son?" continued the prisoner, uncovering his head: "dost thou really think they will have the heart to chase the spider from my cell?"

You have counted your spiders: your Bastile is exhausted.

" "Let me get him," cried Dotty, seizing a pin, and rushing at poor Norah, who tried in vain to ward off the pin and at the same time catch the spider.

Dr Vijayalakshmi has been doing research on rearing spiders as a biological weapon for controlling cockroaches and her workplace is full of spiders of various types, all in bottles, and bred under her supervision.

At last Up jumped the cunning spider, And fiercely held her fast.

During the fortnight that I worked with Dr Vijayalakshmi, I simply slipped into this set-up, reading books about spiders that Dr Vijayalakshmi gave me, then learning to identify different spiders and simultaneously helping Selvan in all the tasks that were needed to maintain the huge spider population housed in the garage.

Dissolve in the spider the butter and add at once the beaten eggs, etc., inclining the spider to the handle for an instant and then shaking the omelet into the centre and turn up the right edge, then the left and fry briskly five minutes and serve.

My companion and myself cautiously brought up a tumbler under the web, and pressed it suddenly against the wall, so as to inclose both spider and eggs within it.

Has my fine lady met a spider or a cow?" and a big rough lad of twelve, in a college gown, spread out his arms, and danced up and down in the doorway to bar the entrance.

Meanwhile the others noticed a big black spider letting himself down from the tree above, directly in front of Many Eyesanother omen of good fortune.

An artificiall cobwebbe to catch flies, And nourish Spiders?

He is not particular about the part of the song which he makes his closing note, but will leave off right in the middle of a strain, when he appears to be in the height of ecstasy, to pick up a spider or a fly.

As she works downward, she parts off the tube of the nest with horizontal floors of a finer and harder mud, and inside each storey places some five spiders, and among them the precious egg, or eggs, which is to feed on them when hatched.

" Did Wolsey, arrayed in all his glory, ever regard a spider, or think that his proud name would be coupled with so minute a member of the creation? Rook-shooting.

"The men of experiment are," says he, "like ants,they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.

THE SPIDER AND THE FLY "Will you walk into my parlor?" Said a spider to a fly; "'Tis the prettiest little parlor That ever you did spy.