On her desk was a piece of paper with Rowena's spidery handwriting.

And whose spidery handwriting is it that fills the pages?

I pulled out a clutch of papers marked 'Technology' in the squadron leader's spidery handwriting.

And in spidery handwriting, it carried the signature "Bob Jones" .

Finally she found an envelope, brown with age, on which was written, in her own spidery handwriting, "Recipe for apple jelly."

The letter inside the envelope took up several sheets of pale blue airmail paper, folded in four and covered with the same spidery handwriting.

I found eleven responses, some in spidery handwriting, some laboriously typed, that answered the ad with not much more than name, address, and phone number.

The words, scripted in black ink in spidery handwriting, danced before her eyes, and it was a moment before she could make sense of them.

"We'll talk about it later." She opened the scroll the earl had given her, glanced over the spidery handwriting, then rolled it back up.

"Ummm, yes, very interesting." In fact, the spidery handwriting was so faded and so ornate that it hardly seemed worth the trouble of deciphering it.