great-granddaddy-longlegs

Updated: August 7, 2026

Now, on the great-granddaddy-longlegs of all the spidery trestles that ever were built, we would go roaring across a mighty gorge, its sides clothed with perpendicular gardens and vineyards, and with little gray towns clustering under the ledges on its sheer walls like mud-daubers' nests beneath an eave.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Europe Revised