"Garden spider" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... although it is well known that he has a natural antipathy to all crawling things—an abhorrence inherited from his mother—and has been known to run like a frightened child from the appearance of a mere garden spider." ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew
... on the part of the animal creation before a change of weather appear to indicate a reasoning faculty. Such seems to be the case with the common garden spider, which, on the approach of rainy or windy weather, will be found to shorten and strengthen the guys of his web, lengthening the same when the storm is over. There is a popular superstition that it is unlucky for an angler to meet a single magpie, but two of the birds together are ...
— Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various |
