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CobWeb(1) A Web page that has not been updated in a long time. cobweb 1. a web spun by certain spiders, esp those of the family Theridiidae, often found in the corners of disused rooms 2. a single thread of such a web How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But shortly afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb and was eaten by a spider. Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants, -- a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.
You think your power's infinite as your malice,
And would do all your anger prompts you to;
But you must wait occasions, and obey them:
Sail in an egg-shell, make a straw your mast,
A cobweb all your cloth, and pass unseen,
Till you have 'scaped the rocks that are about you. |
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