cobwebby

"She's going to a dance, and she's got the sweetest dress for it -- creamy yellow silk and cobwebby lace.

She made ruffled chemises of sheer linen, with her own fine edgings and French embroidery on breast and shoulders; linen hand-made combination undersuits; and nightgowns, fairy and cobwebby, embroidered, trimmed with Irish lace.

There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles.

I very much like Jonathan Miller's production, first seen in 1995: within John Conklin's tall, rotating walls, it effectively substitutes a stiffly formal, tea-and-cards-and-brandy Edwardian estate for the misty, cobwebby fairy-tale kingdom of Allemonde; and when the performers are on form and in sync with it, it injects a welcome dose of flesh-and-blood urgency into Maurice Maeterlinck's symbol-laden domestic drama.

Jay had a biopsy in March and received the results in April - the 'cobwebby' area on her tongue was pre-cancerous.

But the box still calls, siren-like, from the cobwebby mental attic, which is why, when we were blessed with the gift of a grandson, I was (am, will continue to be - bring 'em on, kids.

The story of Michael's sale of stake in Naivasha's Buffalo Mall is tied to the purchase of the Sh320 million Hillersdon House, a historic 150-year-old eight-bedroom Victorian house in Devon, England - once dismissed as 'a bat-ridden, cobwebby' investment.

This shift of emphasis is precisely why brand advertising has been relegated to a shadowy, cobwebby place few people want to venture into.

Because, while blood-curdling and cobwebby it may be, we can think of plenty of Hidden fans who'd happily spend a night there scaring themselves silly.

And if it's meant to be this summer's 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle discovered in a cobwebby corner of a lake cabin -- well, there's no law that compels you to spread it out and solve it, even if J.J.

Even as the architecture--with its high, cobwebby windows of light and not of sky--reflected a truncated theology of beauty, its spare, the-building-is-beside-the-point aesthetic made room for a deeper economy of Bible-composted life.

Tidying her room by sweeping it under the bed - so months later you find cups of mouldy milk and a cobwebby Paddington.