I'd tried kicking my way out, but even though I'm big and black as a crow, my unusually thick spider-legs weren't a match for the sturdy glass. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But he was singing lustily as he lathered his hair, though Flint wasn't able to appreciate his fine tenor in the least as it crept in on its steel spider-legs. ❋ Baker, Kage (2004)
He felt the terrible but pleasurable itching up the sides of his body as the spider-legs tried to burst through - seven instead of eight, thanks to the terriblenastyawful Blackbird Mommy who had been both preg and notpreg at the same time, and might she rot screaming in todash space forever (or at least until one of the Great Ones who lurked there found her). ❋ King, Stephen (2004)
The tickling spider-legs of danger on Conan's spine became sharp hooves. ❋ Green, Roland (1988)
In the course of five minutes the fugitives arrived at a small river, the treacherous sands of which receiving their spider-legs, their flight was greatly retarded, and by the time they had floundered to the opposite side and scrambled to the top of the bank, I could perceive that their race was run. ❋ Various (N/A)
Near the edge of the river we frequently see myriads of tree-roots bent almost at right angles, giving the trees the appearance of standing on spider-legs in the water. ❋ Various (N/A)
I am the only caterpillar in the country with spider-legs; when they are stretched to their full length and quivering, they are worse to look at than the real thing. ❋ Douglas English (N/A)
Only those spider-legs on the wall seemed kicking at him, and that fatal seventy-one, one, one kept ringing in his ears. ❋ Charles Clark Munn (1882)
Ledscha seemed like the embodiment of some great danger, and when she lowered one arm and raised the other to protect herself again from the radiance of the noonday sun, he started; for through the brain of the usually fearless man darted the thought that now the nimble spider-legs were moving to draw him toward her, entwine him, and suck his heart's blood. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
Comic artists have often drawn the moon capering on spider-legs; a little filling out would make the Vicomte very like the caricature. ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)
a sort of doll's-house air of cheerful comfort, with the tiny plates, tea-cups, and the miniature loaf, and the complicated spider-legs, among which it was not easy to dispose of his own length of limb. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Good-day, spider-legs, an 'don't go for to run into a hartist again, with a paint-pot in' is 'and. " ❋ Unknown (1859)
"Pr'aps _you_ might, youngster, with your half fledged spider-legs," said the Captain, "but you'll not catch fourteen-stun-six goin 'over ❋ Unknown (1859)
