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... County Cricket Championship. SO home again. For this is the Family season. Others may be bowling googlies with reluctant jelly-fish, exercising their faces with pink rock or winks at the Girl in the Kiosk, airing purple cummerbunds on the carefree promenade ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 660 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

A FEW HINTS TO WILDFOWLING BEGINNERS

... pore man's bread out of his mouth! Why the doan't yeow keep a' tome wi' that there pop-gun? Yeow ain't gawt the sense of a jelly-fish and so on, with adjectives racy of the mud. If you wish to exorcise the demon you have raised, you must swear that you shot ...

Back to Protoplasm

... In short, back to Protoplasm. Your learned Dryasdusts will tell you that in the Beginning of Time humans were even as the jelly-fish, a mass of life that consisted of a pre hensile stomach and nothing more. Such thinking as it did, or such move ment as ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 861 | Page: 72 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Saturday 11 July 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 648 | Page: 45 | Tags: Illustrations 

CANINE CONSIDERATIONS: Temperaments with Tails to Them

... bipeds are apt to fancy we possess a monopoly of many qualities which, in fact, we share with all sorts of other beings, from jelly-fish to jaguars. What we call temperament, for instance-- any amount of it among Dogs, I can assure you. (Did you know, by ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE REAL LETTERS OF A MIDSHIPMITE

... full of horrid marine monsters. I spent my time chasing small fish in shallow water and rush ing away from cuttlefish and jellyfish. Walking on a sea urchin is not pleasant. We were watched while we were feeding by the whole of the inhabitants of the village ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 908 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Gulf Between

... n. All these missing bathers have been stung and narcotized by jelly-fish and have never risen to the surface again. If true, deplorable and it is my private opinion that these jelly-fish have been sown by Doenitz. In our issue of Sept. 5 we published ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2369 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: From the Front of the Front

... which I meet wherever I turn. Life has never been secure, never is and never will be, and we should all be jelly-fish if it were (not that the jelly-fish's life, I imagine, is more secure than any other creature's). This does not mean, of course, that the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2402 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: WATER

... purposes to have countless millions of herrings, there is no real advantage to any body in having countless millions of jelly-fish or gastropods or squids. Yet, for the sake of these tiresome creatures and their conservative attitude towards wise parenthood ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SILVER HARVEST

... weavers with a nasty line of poisonous fins, and perhaps a big fat cod twisted in the folds of netting. Long soapy strings of jelly-fish flop all over the deck, and you give them as wide a berth as you do the weavers, while occa sionally there is a yell from ...

LAZY LEAVES FROM: THE: DIARY OF-AN-IDLE-SUMMER: XI.--A QUESTION OF GARDENS AND BEAN-FEASTS

... give it enough beer to swim in, and, by the time the brakes gathered them up for the evening train, they were as limp as jelly-fish and as drunk as a Mafficking Night. They say in Maychester that they were bean- feasters fr' Lunnon. I hope, for the credit ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1161 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

BYSTANDER COMMENTS: An R in the Month

... tioning that the impious miscreant should be pelted to death with oyster shells and that his body should be flung to the jellyfish. Chacun a Son Gout Yet here and now I confess that there are things in this world of good things that I prefer to oysters ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1928
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1092 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations