daddy-long-legs

Kiri, meanwhile, had captured a light emerald in the pillbox, and we had been joined by a meadow grasshopper and a giant cranefly, the biggest of its tribe I have ever seen, with big patterned wings like clear church windows: the daddy of all daddy-long-legs.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Kiri, meanwhile, had captured a light emerald in the pillbox, and we had been joined by a meadow grasshopper and a giant cranefly, the biggest of its tribe I have ever seen, with big patterned wings like clear church windows: the daddy of all daddy-long-legs.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

And her garden was a voyage of discovery into frogs and daddy-long-legs and apple trees, and brambles.

If possible, does anyone have a time travel machine, and could I borrow it? Katy 2008

Then one night, a daddy-long-legs had hovered near.

#23 into the crapometer Miss Snark 2005

He went up to the globe, and gave it a spin; it emitted a faint creak and moved about an inch, bringing into his purview a daddy-long-legs which had died on it in latitude 44.

To Let 2004

The scuttling lobstrosities of the ocean's sulpher vents, the eyeless daddy-long-legs of the hollow earth, a mother spider the colour of glass whose back teemed with young.

mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004

Jed perched on the edge of the bed, his left leg twitching like a daddy-long-legs round a lampshade.

Conferences are Murder McDermid, Val 1999

The umbrella lay like a recently swatted daddy-long-legs, expiring sadly on the ground.

So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

The lake was a sombre sheet of ice with a faint sheen on it that the clouded moon made, and the willows, which by daylight looked like so many crouched spiders or daddy-long-legs, were laden with snow that clung to them and changed their shape.

Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

I knew that before I met him, this boy, whose littleness surprised me, had suffered ill dreams in a nameless world, and now, worn out with tears and humiliation and dread of life, he slept, and while he slept I watched him dispassionately, as I would have looked at a crippled daddy-long-legs.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton