Usage of "spider's web"

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A web spun by spiders to trap insect prey.

Ús de spider's web en anglès

In a bush beside the fence there was a big spider's web. 
 The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends 

I have hung my whole interest in life on a spider's web. 
 Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life 

He had no more chance than a fly in a spider's web. 
 The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon 

Or like the buzzing fly who is lured within the spider's web! 
 Tom Tufton's Travels 

The middle membrane is thick, and somewhat like a spider's web in appearance. 
 Object Lessons on the Human Body / A Transcript of Lessons Given... 

A fly caught in a spider's web, that was what she thought of. 
 The Bridal March; One Day 

It's almost as if the stars are tangled in a ghostly spider's web. 
 Childhood's End 

It is built of grass and reed-bamboo-fibres, and is coated with spider's web. 
 The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 

It would be like binding a giant with a spider's web. 
 The Lights and Shadows of Real Life 

We paused to examine a spider's web spanning a space between two shrubs. 
 A Grandpa's Notebook / Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Enc... 

A gigantic system of taxation had been brushed, like a spider's web, away. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 / A Maga... 

I was not caught in the other base spider's web. 
 Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 / from Rome to the End 

Only a spider's web will hold it; coarser objects have no power over it. 
 Winter Sunshine 

If it was really a join-the-dots game, it would sketch out a spider's web. 
 The Guardian 

Then he could dimly see the face of his friend beyond the spider's web. 
 In the Days of Poor Richard 

Like an enormous spider's web of fine dark silk it bulged before the wind. 
 A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) 

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Significats de spider's web en anglès