Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobwebbing
Literary usage of Cobwebbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian
disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of ..."
2. Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: An Account of Their by Richard Charles Mayne (1862)
"... either running along the back of a river-bar, and supplying tbe sluices at
it, or cobwebbing and intersecting the whole country as in California. ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1882)
"... also underwent a complete cobwebbing. The automaton was an automaton, and
nothing more. Things now went so evenly indeed, that but for Hilda's animation ..."
4. Theory and Practice of Teaching by Edward Thring (1894)
"A thousand such gossamers are floating in the air, restless and intangible; up
to the present time floating at random, merely cobwebbing the popular brain. ..."
5. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"... works great injury both in the actual destruction of comb and in the felting
and cobwebbing of the interior of the hive with the tough silken netting. ..."
6. Biographical Dictionary of Well-known British Columbians: With a Historical by John Blaine Kerr (1890)
"... either' running along the back of a river-bar, and supplying the sluices at
it, or cobwebbing and intersecting the whole country as in California. ..."
7. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1882)
"... also underwent a complete cobwebbing. The automaton was an automaton, and
nothing more. Things now went so evenly indeed, that but for Hilda's animation ..."
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