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THE PANORAMA OF THE WEEK

... ancient superstitions still retained in his Highland home. He likened Mr. Gladstone to a juggler and Sir George Trevelyan to a jelly-fish. The municipal elections of England and Wales took place.- The Lord Mayor of London, like some scriptural hero, receives ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1794 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ART OF THE DAY

... Colours. silent waters, a few days, in the culmination of the heat, bring forth translucent living creatures, many-shaped jelly-fish, coloured like mother-of-pearl. And elsewhere she speaks of the passing from the winter blue to the summer blue, from the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2055 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

FASHIONS UP TO DATE

... pair of these shoes, and enable you to put away entirely the blood-curdling dread of stepping bare footed on a loathsome jelly-fish or some other objectionable occupant of the briny ocean. And, besides, one's bare feet, unconfined and spread ing, do not ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1566 | Page: 51 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE

... old engravings; Air. Grant Allen discusses an Altar-piece of Perugino's; and Dr. Andrew Wilson tells his readers all about jelly-fish. THE LATE MRS. STIRLING. From an Engraving by Ii. Lane, B.A. THE COTTAGE AND VILLAGE STREET, THREE MILE CROSS Drawn by Holland ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 335 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations 

SOCIETY ON WHEELS

... the ocean faster than the ordinary rowing-boat can be propelled overhead, provided that the machine does not skid upon a jelly-fish or any such slippery customer. So, at least, I gather from an American journal, which contains also a portrait of the gentleman ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1035 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BOOK AND ITS STORY: DR. ANDREW WILSON IN THREE VOLUMES

... telling it is as conspicuous in his writings as in his speaking and, as with ants, so with such unpromising subjects as jelly-fish and flounders, he contrives to lay his finger upon any peculiar lurking interest accruing, and presents in an entirely new ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1137 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

ARTHUR ROBERTS AS A FRENCH SOLDIER

... before bringing it up to town, I could not but revert to the old extemporised comedy. The piece was still in its amorphous or jelly-fish stage, and was never performed two nights alike. On Monday, the first act would go with a bang, and on Wednesday it would ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 654 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

PARISIAN BEAUTY STUDIOS

... come to me with wrinkles and pimples of many years' standing, and wish them extinguished in a day. Old ladies resembling jelly-fish expect or hope in a month to be set up and made as good as new. C'est impossible C'est coinme qa que ga va dans ce monde ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 854 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

HORS D'OEUVRES

... HORS D'CEUVRES. Are Holidays Advisable? W/nj did the Meek- End? Thursday to Wednesday Week-Ends The Jellyfish Holiday Wireless Holidays Holulayovski in S.heria All the Comforts of Home THERE are many different kinds of holidays, as the schoolboy says ...

Published: Wednesday 21 August 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 863 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

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 

WEEK-END PAPERS

... was first seen as a blaze of light as large as a bucket, ten or more feet below the surface, and supposed to be a large jellyfish. The finder called it a 4 fire-barrel,' not an exaggeration, as when the strange object reached the surface it was seen to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1363 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs