I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Hearts confined by cobwebs would burst at last, and then Love was avenged. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Who of any dignity would take the trouble to clear cobwebs from a wild man's mind after such language as this? 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Clocks tick so loud, too, when you are sitting up alone, and you seem as if you had an under-garment of cobwebs on. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
It brushes the Newgate cobwebs away, and pleases the Aged. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
I have come to clean away these cobwebs, said Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
She was brown with the dust and draped with the cobwebs which had come from the walls of her hiding-place. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
And I have a liking for rust and must and cobwebs. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Boxes and lumber filled it; old dresses draped its unstained wall--cobwebs its unswept ceiling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.