"Web" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... speculation exhausts its resources in similes by which to represent personal annihilation. Man's origin and relations are accounted for very tersely by such illustrations as these: "As the web issues from the spider, as little sparks proceed from fire, so from the One Soul proceed all breathing animals, all worlds, all the gods, all beings." Then as to destiny: "These rivers proceed from the east toward the west, thence from ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood
... Twas their ensign when they to battle went, His chevaliers'; he gave that cry to them. His own broad shield he hangs upon his neck, (Round its gold boss a band of crystal went, The strap of it was a good silken web;) He grasps his spear, the which he calls Maltet;— So great its shaft as is a stout cudgel, Beneath its steel alone, a mule had bent; On his charger is Baligant mounted, Marcules, from over seas, ...
— The Song of Roland • Anonymous
... they had espied at a distance, was quite close to them now. A huge, black hull, with white passenger decks, rising tier on tier, four huge red funnels with black tops, and slender masts, between which hung the spider-web aerials of her wireless apparatus. Her bow was creaming up the ocean into foam, as she rushed onward at a ...
— The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise • Margaret Burnham
... she hovers o'er the web the while, Reads, as it grows, thy figured story there; Now she explains the texture with a smile, And now the woof interprets ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... twine! in light and gloom A spell is on thy hand; The wind shall be thy changeful loom, Thy web the twisting sand. ...
— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various
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