A hundred Tarantulas couldn't stir it.
"The Unspeakable Perk"
Samuel Hopkins Adams
It is admirably got up, and the costumes and scenery, as well as the Tarantulas, transported me back to Naples-dear, joyous Naples-again.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
Little Jerry Goldboy, being naturally a nervous creature, and having his imagination filled with snakes, scorpions, Tarantulas, etcetera, would fain have slept in one of the waggons above the baggage-as did many of the women and children-if he had not been laughed out of his desire by Dally, and induced to spread his couch manfully on the bare ground.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne