silked

I cut some cosmos and sunflowers for the kitchen table today (since I had a clean kitchen, it seemed sensible to decorate it) and discovered that many of the flowers had paralyzed green bottle flies spider-silked to the underside.

i nom, therefor i am. matociquala 2009

Although other species can be "silked", the Golden Orb's silken threads are beyond compare.

The gossamer cape: spun by a million spiders 2012

Behind them came a young woman in the glory of youth, and daintily silked, beautiful in face and form, with diamonds around her fair neck.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Until I moved here, I never knew one should cover the pot of shucked and de-silked ears with a few of the shucks before beginning to boil.

September 14, Day of the Charro 2007

Until I moved here, I never knew one should cover the pot of shucked and de-silked ears with a few of the shucks before beginning to boil.

September 14, Day of the Charro 2007

        At her wedding to Daniel, Francesca's father had walked her down the white-silked aisle.

Everything is Fine 2008

      At her wedding to Daniel, Francesca's father had walked her down the white-silked aisle.

Everything is Fine 2008

The end of the 60s saw too many flowered, silked, brocaded and babooned pop stars giving the peace sign with the missus in front of their rock 'n' roll manors before retreating indoors and screaming "Where's my f------ breakfast?!"

Andrew Loog Oldham: Mods & Rockers Festival: Mocking The Rockers 2008

Here and there upon the walls, among those working, were silked flute girls, sometimes sitting cross-legged on large stones, above the heads of workers, sometimes moving about among the workers, some strolling, playing, at other times turning and dancing.

Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

"Beautiful slaves, silked for a man's pleasure, perfumed for his delight, eager, needful, helplessly responsive, trained to please in a thousand modalities?"

Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988