Daedalian

“The Mann” Award – for the most daedalian and convoluted methods description. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was not unlike a monster bowl of bubbles; the same illusion of movement, the same delicacy and witchery of colour, only here the sensation was not that of decomposition but of life; of flowers, delicate as the rainbow, tenuous, sinuous, breathing -- weaving in a serpentine maze of daedalian hues; long tendrils of orchidian beauty, lifting, weaving, drooping -- a vast sea of equatorial bloom; but -- no trees. ❋ Austin Hall (1908)

Although the principal gallery is barely a mile in length, there are so many ramifications that one may walk for hours without making a complete exploration of the daedalian corridors, even with the help of the guide. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)

Milan, not in trunk hose and slashed sleeves, nor in "French standing collar, treble quadruple daedalian ruff, or stiff-necked rabato, that had more arches for pride, propped up with wire and timber, than five ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)