Our tapered silk lines required drying overnight and we dressed them at breakfast, using tins of red stag fat from Scotland.

In the event of a miss, they will climb up this silk line back to the previous perch.

A thin silk line and folding grapnel were wound around his waist, over the chain-mail shirt.

In Florida, Deinopis often hangs upside-down from a silk line under palmetto fronds during the day.

Some caterpillars can evade predators by using a silk line and dropping off from branches when disturbed.

Looking back at the wounded airship, La Forge saw that the strain put on its skin by the silk lines was opening the wounds farther.

The larvae move quite rapidly when disturbed and will readily drop off the edge of a leaf on a silk line.

Thor had hung the masks on silk lines from the low ceiling.

Burgess fished through his mind and found Anansi, the archetypal spider who had climbed a silk line let down from heaven.

It was a black, lightweight silk line, with heavy knots tied in it every two feet for climbing.