Spidery

“En passant,” if nothing else, would have revealed to Joe, in this imitation of a better trick, the hand of Eugene. […] “Sometimes,” said Eskew, “I think that ’Gene Bantry is jest a leetle bit spiderier than he is lazy.[…]”

High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.

The spidery construction looked like it would fall apart in a stiff breeze.

This shelf is deeply cut into by rivers, so that the line has to cross a series of spidery lattice-girder bridges.

At one point, her spidery abstractions gave way to a series of abruptly syncopated hits, like a deranged allusion to the Thelonious Monk tune “Evidence.”

'I cannot make head or tail of it,' confessed Miss Barrowford, as the senseful fingers crossed and recrossed the scrawl, now following a vague spidery line, now drawn where no visible mark appeared to lead. 'Is there any meaning, do you think?'