Cobwebs [noun]

Above it was a canopy of a deep-red cobweb, dotted with the prettiest little green flies that sparkled like precious stones.

Man's passions at first are like a cobweb's thread, at last become like the thickest cable.

The cobbler of Cobweb Corner was becoming dazed with happiness.

He would brush her machinery aside like a cobweb, but that did not affect the chance of his recognition by Sonia.

But—not 'in this connection,' in no connection—the utilitarian also thoroughly despises cobweb theories, as he terms them.

The force of public convenience would break the red-tape barrier like a cobweb.

The nest is a dainty little cup, covered with cobweb, attached to one of the lower boughs of a tree.

The punctured edges are then drawn together, by means of strands of cobweb, to form a purse or pocket.

He took hold of the vessel and had a long, deep draught, one which seemed to clear away the last mental cobweb from his brain.

It was a mass of cobweb lace of extraordinary antiquity and frailness, mounted on a lining of silver gauze.