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MOTLEY NOTES: POLLY AND JIMMY

... to moment. One can't imagine even a jelly fish managing without hope. I don't know what particular joys or excite ments jelly-fish look for ward. to, but I am sure they look forward to some thing, and when they cease to do so, they might just as well ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1101 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

TOBOGGANING AT DAVOS PLATZ

... To the Mountains of the Moon. By J. E. S. Moore, P.R.G.S. (Hurst and Blackett). A few years ago a missionary found somo jelly-fish in the fresh water of Lake Tangan yika, and placing them in a bottle he sent them home to Oxford, and from this apparently ...

CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON: Authors of Foreigners; or the World in a Nutshell.; No. 2. THE ST. REGIS

... lordly air. Laura could hardly believe that the sandy-haired little boy of twelve, down whose back she had once slipped a jelly-fish, had blos somed out not only into an Air Force uniform but into such sophistication. But she began to feel confident herself ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

Up the Kilts!

... very few old trout. Harris was shaken, and said something was reminiscent about Scotland, but still until I mentioned jelly-fish, which decided Harris, as it became a double Scotch tour. Now when we got to Scotland several things became only too obvious ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1425 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations 

Scoreboard

... 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 

DIARY OF A LADY OF LIMITED LEISURE

... when we weren't fetching anything we were sweeping sand out of the coconut mats on the tiled floor. The sea was thick with jellyfish, and E., the eldest, had most of his skin peeled off his back by the -sun the first day, and though he was careful not to ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 774 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... Cuisine and Service. Fully Licensed. Wedding Receptions The bathing is safe and good. There are no sharks, sea-serpents or jelly-fish, and you can bathe from our own special beach adjoining our Annexe (three minutes by car from the Hotel), where teas and ...

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 

Standing By..

... Antibes some time ago we saw a bored and beautiful face like iced marble wake suddenly to animation as its owner stepped on a jellyfish. Coo, the language The grace and vigour of the dance The pleasure of the clientele If we were Bognor's publicity- boys we ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 953 | Page: 46 | 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