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We are also compelled to think half wickedly with Amy what pity it was Jude Rush fell down a precipice breaking his neck, thus giving his wife liberty to capture her own good master and what pity it was too that Jude Thornton Rush did not fall down some precipice and did not break his neck before, spider-like, he had woven his fine web, and said softly to Della's daughter: "Will you walk into my parlor?"
Daylight came at last, when, going upon deck, we found ourselves in the midst of a forest of mangroves, rising some forty or fifty feet above the water, the lower branches, stems, and spider-like limbs, within reach of high-tide, being completely covered with thick clusters of oysters. "Sure, do them shell-fish grow on the trees?" exclaimed Tim.
"I told him it was thanks to his letters that I was now here. He eyed somewhat hungrily the package under my arm, his long, spider-like fingers approaching it in such an alarming manner that I thought it advisable to open at once. He turned over the leaves, reading through the Sonata.
These derive their generic name from their singular spider-like appearance caused by their disproportionately long and slender limbs, and the great length of their tails.
I had begged the doctor to keep strict account between us, that I might pay back from my pension whatever he spent on me, and with fine spider-like characters he was proceeding to debit me with the stage fare, when another quill barred his entrance to his ink-horn. He took off his spectacles and glared pink-eyed at the genial gentleman with sandy upright hair. "Sir!" he cried, "that is my ink!"
I knew I had done wrong I had acted spider-like to her got her into the web tied her hand and foot, and tantalized her. I am given to brag, I know, Doctor, when I am in the saddle, and up in the stirrups, and leavin' all others behind; but when a beast is choaked and down in the dirt, no man ever heard me brag I had rode the critter to death.
The light-bodied jacana, supported by its spider-like, widely extended feet, treads over the floating pan-like leaves of the Victoria Regia, and other aquatic plants, without sinking them in any perceptible degree below the surface of the calm pools in which they float. They take up their dwelling on the borders of the remote lakes and igarapes of the Amazonian Valley.
One morning in the late spring Janet crossed the Warren Street bridge, the upper of the two spider-like structures to be seen from her office window, spanning the river beside the great Hampton dam. The day, dedicated to the memory of heroes fallen in the Civil War, the thirtieth of May, was a legal holiday.
And because I am an experienced traveller," said grandma briskly, "I shall take the upper berth." "But, grandma, however will you get up there?" Three little spider-like steps were all Fenella saw. The old woman gave a small silent laugh before she mounted them nimbly, and she peered over the high bunk at the astonished Fenella. "You didn't think your grandma could do that, did you?" said she.
"It seems that there is a terrible monster that is threatening our fine forest," she began. "A very large spider-like creature." "Sounds beastly!" shuddered the light bulb. "And he can sap away the energy from any living creature and render him an empty shell of himself," added Tweaty. "My!" said Watts. "That does sound like a problem! Is there anything I can do to help?
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