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... unparalleled, a fickle swain, irreclaimable toper, a sinner given sack and uncleanness ; though had no more firmness than jelly-fish, and no more consistency even of outward aspect than a chameleon; though had the vanity of a Scotch peacock, which we take ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1857
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3900 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TILE ST ANDREWS GAZETTE, SATURDAI, AUGUST 27,1870

... with those web-footed individuals who so deliberately expose valuable life to such contingencies as crabs and sharks, and jelly-fish et genies mane. thou grey-haired Nereuslooking sinner, who laughed so heartily the other afternoon atourdilenimaamong he ...

LORD RECTORSHIP OF ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY

... Parliament. (Great interruption.) He supposed .the present disturbance was raised by those who traced their origin back to the jelly-fish. (Laughter, hisses, and applause.) Lord Salisbury was one of the most prominent men among those who were counted leaders ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1872
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1527 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

' YOU MUST KNOW BANKS!'

... given op society since her husband's death, I should have consoled myself long ago, for be was no better than a mummy or a jelly-fish ! But I could not change my name for Banks ! Adelaide Percy could never become Adelaide Banks !' 1 thought you intended ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1874
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7494 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BURNING OF THE SHIP o ARBRAMAN. HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF A BOAT'S

... to relate, from the 9th of March till the they survived, chewing lead to moisten their thmt: ‘Ml%&o eat their boots and jelly-fish, and in delirium seeking to kill one another, thus welcoming death. One man lay down exhausted in the bottom of the boat ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1874
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 594 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WRECKING IN FRANCE

... because their doctor has ordered them to batbe, or because their children have a boat —which motives are as inno• cent as the jelly-fishes that lie Milliken on the sand where the ebbing tide bag left them ; but their ancestors, like ours, adopted marine residences ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1874
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1940 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Alone to scan the wonders

... the water, and some alarm was occasioned by his crying out at twenty minutes past nine, I’ve got stung on the shoulder hv jellyfish,” hut the moment ( afterwards called out that the smart was only a momentary one. The moon rose few minutes before ten, and ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1875
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... show -nth big enough hold boat full men, yet its throat quite tiny, and it can only swallow such small things shrimps, | jelly-fish, crabs, which are strained through wonderful arrangement like a fringe, what we call whalebone. tongue, a soft, thick mass ...

Published: Thursday 02 September 1875
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6784 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE FIFESHIRE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1876

... and mineralogy made Middleton muddle Macbeth, than to be told that an ape is a potential Shakspeare, or that a primeval jelly-fish is responsible for the antics of Dr Slade. Nil culmirari expresses the mental attitude of the worthy student of his age ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1876
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1477 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

more. was always light-headed. How Jong did remain ?—About twenty minutes. Then camo running back, and I let ..

... these jelly-fish are so soft and have little cohesion that they often fall pieces in handling ; curious that these same delicate creature* subsist very «m«!l animal having flinty shell a* covering But the wonderful digestive power of the jelly-fish readily ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 1876
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6453 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE FIFESHIRE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1877

... like ; it is mere recreation for them to chase the ebbing Neptune, to form ropes out of sea-sand, and human beings out of jelly-fish. Nature is their open secret, and it would be beneath their dignity to waste their energies over green sour ringlets, ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1877
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3526 | Page: 4 | Tags: none