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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 

Scraps

... that the sun was above the horizon, being equal, therefore, to 26 per cent. A Singular Organism, resembling in form the sea jelly-fish ot Medusa, but only half-an-inch in diameter, has been lately dis covered in the Victoria Regia tank of the garden of the ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1880
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1249 | Page: 7 | 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 

Scraps

... in the Victoria Regia tank at the Botanical Gardens, suddenly re-appeared in their old haunt on Saturday morning. These jelly-fish Limnocodium Sowerbii vanished in 1880 as mysteriously as they came, and have never been seen again until now, two months ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1883
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1276 | Page: 7 | 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 

STANDING BY

... bookie, lovely one, can it be true Fishy Iv the Min. of Food boys possessed, collectively, the imagination of a glandered jellyfish they wouldn't go round feebly whimpering because the British housewife turns up her nose at such sea-products as lugs, milt ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

FROM COCKTAILS TO PORT

... COCKTAILS TO PORT By the Shaker. THE very young son of a motorist was spending a holiday at the seaside. One day he espied a jellyfish, the like of which he had never seen before. He pointed out the strange thing to his mother. Oh, look, he said, there's ...

AT THE ORIENTAL CONGRESS YESTERDAY

... effects of an encounter hle had had with a jelly-fish when bathing about an hour previously. When swimming out from the bathing-place the patient's head and neck came in eonr- tact with a very large jelly-fish. Hle had some difficulty in getting clear ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1891
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2387 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations