gossamer threads

The gossamer threads went through his shirt, between the weave of the cloth.

More lights flared, gossamer threads of light forming a glittering web around the stones.

Again the gossamer threads thrust forth, searched her.

Migrating spiders on gossamer threads floating half a mile up curved around it.

He was merely floating those gossamer threads of thought which, like the spider's, he hoped would lay hold somewhere.

The duct tape wrapped around the middle was starting to wear thin, with strands of silvery string coming off like gossamer threads.

She hovered there, suspended over the chasm of nonexistence by the finest of gossamer threads.

In him was raw strength, and an innate savagery held in check by gossamer threads of reason and logic.

The stickiness of spiders' webs that allows them to adhere to form a 'canvas' is due to droplets of glue suspended on the gossamer threads.

They grew from it as gossamer threads, entwining stone and iron, reaching from outer walls to tallest spires, from deepest cellars to highest battlements.

The woman and the porpoise, for instance, whose tender coupling symbolises a wider mending of those gossamer threads which formerly bound the world together in peaceable companionship.

Viewed from afar, these gossamer threads of paint blur to create a face that looks three-dimensional; up close, the tiny concentric lines resemble the swirls of a fingerprint.

As soon as the unit fired, the computed aiming tracks transformed themselves into a holographic overlay of the charge being laid-the gossamer threads would otherwise have been invisible.

During his fifty-plus years with the Office of Form Control he had lived at the center of a web of data collection whose gossamer threads extended right through the solar system.

Instantly the scream was answered by an unearthly chorus of similar cries all about us and immediately a swarm of these horrid insects came racing toward us upon their gossamer threads.

This filament was so like one of the gossamer threads of Ariadne's web, as she described them, that for a moment Alex wondered whether her powers might have objectified it into solid reality.

Several shops, as well as a lace museum, offer lace-making exhibitions where the public can stare in disbelief as women work gossamer threads, wound around tiny bobbins, into patterns a spider would envy.

But Ms. Cianciolo is giving the idea fresh currency, and is it any coincidence that the runways this week are already filled with torn T-shirts and dangling gossamer threads, as if spun from her strange cocoon?

In Andreas Feininger's 1940 shot of the Brooklyn Bridge, the tiny figures of two men are framed by webs of cables that in reality are as thick as tree limbs, but here seem like gossamer threads.

Mr. Chailly's tempos in Bruckner's Ninth are not uncommonly slow; what gives his interpretation its aura of spaciousness is a combination of textural clarity, freely arcing phrases and a tension that seems spun from gossamer threads.

We toiled upward through a torus that became a hollow expanding helix, ascending and ascending until it suddenly opened out into a great room, so vast that its ceiling glowed in an opalescent mist, a fabric of gossamer threads.

And yet now I perceived that I passed at a very leisurely pace over fields of green and gold, and dizzy aerial roadways that spread unsupported spans city to city like the gossamer threads of a spider's web.

The outer layer of limbs are thicker and used for locomotion (tractor limbs), inner sets hang above the floor and are used for finer manipulation, the inner most limbs resemble gossamer threads and provide sensory information.

Frosted filigree leaves and crystal-coated berries are beguilingly draped with the gossamer threads of a spider's web, while seed heads and clean straw-coloured stems, surviving remnants of the summer's exuberance, glint with new life in the low winter sunlight.

Hrissa continued to peer over the rim, her bearded chin almost resting on it, her nostrils a-twitch as if she faintly scented gossamer threads of meat-odor mounting from the leagues' distant dark green, but when the rope tightened on her harness, she followed.