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... clockwork. The day passes away quiet uniformity, unle-s tlic sight of a dist nl sail, the appearance of fish, or strange jelly-fish, afford a welcome interruption. '' At last evening draws on, announced by a diminished force of the wind. It would he a ...

Published: Thursday 21 March 1839
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3285 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRISTOL INSTITUTION

... in the Madreporo and Coral Islands; the brilliant hues and dazzling phosphorescence of the Atlantic Seas produced by the Jelly-fish, &c.; the curious organization of the Cuttle- fish and Nautilus; and the remarkable metatnorphoses of the Barnacles, some ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 994 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ST. SIDWELL'S WARD. To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Sir, —I well ..

... himself, or whether ladies wear monkies the horsehair roundabouts, that present light contrivance which is as elastic as a jelly-fish and not subject to the accident I saw happen to a lady with a bustle; —it slipped on one side in waltzing, and the lady ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1841
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1670 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GOODWOOD RACES—Tuesday

... Canada, 71b 4 Mr. Gratwicke's Rochester, Bst 71b Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, loib .. •• Duke of Richmond's Jellyfish, Iff 71b.. .. 7 Betting.—3 to on Honeycomb, agst Vanguard, and 6 to 1 the lon colt. The lon coll defeated the crack hall ...

CIRENCESTER, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1

... Lenore-an, out of Calais Sot • 4 Mr. Orenticke's Rochester. Bst 7lb . . Mr. C. Monke's Vanguard, Bst 1015 Dekc of Richmond's Jellyfish, fist 715 Benins.-3 to 8 on Honeycomb, 5 to 1 apt Vanguard, and 6 to I apt the Iron colt. The 4 , &aka of 100 sees each, ...

BATH AND SOMERSET COUNTY RACES

... Mr. Godwin, well known the neighbourhood. The race for the cup was very good one, and was won by the Duke of Richmond's Jelly-fish, after a beautiful display jockeyship the part of young Treen. She was the favourite, and being some distance behind her ...

The Bath and Sombrsbt County Racks commenced on Tuesday. Owing to the Unfavourable state of the weather, the ..

... Godwin, well known in the neighbourhoods The race for the cop was very good one, and was won by the Duke of Richmond's Jelly-fish, after beautiful display of jockeyslrlp on the part yonng Treen. She was the favourite, and being soine distance behind ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1849
Newspaper: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1347 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... (2nd); 'restator, 4 yrs. Gat 7lb (3rd); Seauter i~ra loupe 4 yrs, slat 111b, Glen Saddel, Cockermouth, Snowstorm, CBeraso. Jellyfish, Maid of Tecam~alley, Rodney, Don Joan, Bac- It chanalian, Normanton, Clothworker, Cayenne, and Rabelais. II Betting: 5 to ...

THE STORY OP THE SEA ANEMONE

... Into the heart of its waters when they were clear and placid as the surface of tire lake, and she had seen the beautiful Jelly-fish idly drifting about with the motion of the tide ; and one, the fairest and largest of them all, had spread itself out in ...

FIRESIDE READINGS

... the weed had smoothed the surface of that part of the sea, and these creatures— Medusa; as they are properly called, or jellyfish commonly—are never seen except in a calm still sea. When it is rough they keep below the surface, where the water is undisturbed ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1856
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4699 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE NORTH DEVON JOURNAL, AUGUST 7, iBs§

... my power. Enough that whatever else 1 may have learned of the sea, [learned butlittleof its inhabitants, starfishes and jellyfishes, indeed, could not fail of obtruding themselves on notice. Crabs are hunted all amiable boys; and an occasional cuttlefish ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1856
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 6869 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE

... that the son was his eyes. We never tasted oysters opened amateur without fancying we were swallowing* a mixture of bad jelly-fish and gritty gravel-walk. never won fifty of a gentleman .billiards who called the marker by his Christian name, and made ...