Every day he carried Amalia out in the sun to a sheltered place, where she might sit and work at the fascinating lace with which her fingers seemed to be only playing, yet which developed into webs of most intricate design, even while her eyes were not fixed upon it, but were glancing about at whatever interested her, or up in his face, as she talked to him impulsively in her fluent, inverted English.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The pain that had begun in his heart was now at his throat-his throat was full of spiders' webs.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
She surrounded him with the dainty feminine spider webs from which his life, almost monastic till now, had been quite free.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit