bottle-bellied

If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, wo betide the valleys!

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys.

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys!

Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker 1917

Couched in his little domain, with these filaments stretching forth in every direction, he is like some choleric, bottle-bellied old spider, who has woven his web over a whole chamber, so that a fly cannot buzz, nor a breeze blow, without startling his repose, and causing him to sally forth wrathfully from his den.

John Bull 1914

If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys!

Rip Van Winkle 1907

The old gentleman's spectacles seemed to twinkle as he ran his eye over the slate; and after making out two or three rather savage-looking _s_'s, as many long-legged _p_'s, a squat _h_ or two, a big bottle-bellied _b_, three or four gigantic _l_'s, a broken-backed

The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief Morrison Heady 1872

Couched in his little domain, with these filaments stretching forth in every direction, he is like some choleric, bottle-bellied old spider who has woven his web over a whole chamber, so that a fly cannot buzz nor a breeze blow without startling his repose and causing him to sally forth wrathfully from his den.

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

"There are none," observes he, "that beg in this country, but there be witches too many -- bottle-bellied witches and others, that produce many strange apparitions, if you will believe report, of a shallop at sea manned with women -- and of a ship and great red horse standing by the mainmast; the ship being in a small cove to the eastward vanished of a sudden," etc.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys!

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys!

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