| Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - Readers - 1918 - 424 pages
...thread very firmly. Then, as the spider recedes from the first point, the thread lengthens ; and when it has come to the place where the other end of the thread should be fixed, gathering up with its claws the thread, which would otherwise be too slack, it stretches... | |
| 1779 - 774 pages
...to weave, it emits a fmall drop of its liquid again ft the wall, which, hardening by degrees, ferves to hold the thread very firmly. Then, receding from...as it recedes the thread lengthens ; and when the ipider has come to the place where the other end of the thread mould be fixed, gathering up with its... | |
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