All 4 Uses
gossamer
in
All the King's Men
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- He learned that the world is like an enormous spider web and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but springs out to fling the gossamer coils about you who have touched the web and then inject the black, numbing poison under your hide.†
Chpt 4
- I saw the little creases in the flesh of her neck, just the tiniest little creases, the little mark left day after day by that absolutely infinitesimal gossamer cord of thuggee which time throws around the prettiest neck every day to garrote it.†
Chpt 8
- The cord is so gossamer that it breaks every day, but the marks get there finally, and finally one day the gossamer cord doesn't break and is enough.†
Chpt 8 *
- The cord is so gossamer that it breaks every day, but the marks get there finally, and finally one day the gossamer cord doesn't break and is enough.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(gossamer) extremely light, delicate, airy, or thin
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)