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| A spider spins his web strand by strand. | |
| A spidery handwriting | |
| Big flies break the spider web. | Italian |
| Laws, like the spider’s web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free. |
Spanish |
| The spider and the fly can’t make a deal. | Jamaican |
| If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. | American Quakers |
| It is the web, not the spider, that catches the fly. | |
| The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces. |
Bible: Proverbs 30:28 |
| The spiders web lets the rat escape and catches the fly. | Spanish |
| To destroy the cobweb, destroy the spider. | Maltese |
| When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. | Ethiopian |
| When spiders’ webs unite, they can tie up a lion. | Ethiopian |
| When the bee sucks, it makes honey; when the spider, poison. | |
| Where the girls are there are no spider’s webs. | Catalonian |
| Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever. |
Madagascar |
| You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb. | Maltese |
| Somehow the killing of a giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of a wizard or the dwarves or anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. | Tolkien – The Hobbit |
| The itsy bitsy spider (or The eensy weensy spider) climbed up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain. And the itsy bitsy spider (or eensy weensy spider) climbed up the spout again. |
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| A “spider” is also a computer program that searches the World Wide Web automatically by retrieving a document and all linked documents for storage in a database. These programs are also called : “web spider” or “web crawler” or “web robot”. The search process is called “web crawling” or “spidering”. |
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