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... cupboard with a loaf of sugar, and you can see whether he will break it up with his nippers. Besides crabs, I used to find jelly-fish on the beach, made, it seemed to me, of sea-calves feet, aud no sherry. The mermaids eat them, I suppose, at their wet water ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... FllOK ouR CHEF.—Cucumber to the salmoa, fennel to the mackerel, and a salad to the lobster, bid what, ye diners-out, is the jelly-fish r DON'T ALL SPEAK AT OSCE.-Plenty of the people are ready—too ready—to give tongue but who is prepared to come to the fore ...

THE POWER OF F.å..ITH

... produce any creature in the transition state, t changing from one to another of those innumerable stages between the primeval jelly-fish or even the gorilla, and monkey, or baboon, from which all men° originally sprung, according to Mr. Darwin's remarkable ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1871
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A LANDSMAN AFLOAT

... Your heart is oftener in your mouth than else- where, and you could fancy your stomach had changed to something like a jelly-fish. The appointments of the small cabin are unimpeachable in their elegance, but by anatural affinity of material they remind ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1873
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 682 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER'S TEACHING

... charac- teristic of the nineteenth century is the wonderful zeal with which we are all studying animal organism, from the jelly-fish upwards. With the exception of that well-known description of Argus in the Odyssey, and those two little poems in which ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1873
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SCOTCH OPINION ON THE BRECONSHIRE ELECTION

... Inhabitants of the Island may build thoir tb nersts. Bat a Liberal gain-what n itt? Simply an ID eddition to the sbapele5s jelly-fish mass, which, g, without form or consistency, surging this way end .y that, without policy or object, rests inertly ano re ...

Published: Tuesday 25 May 1875
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 732 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CAPTAIN WEBB'S SWIMMING FEAT

... or even^a w^l very remarkably. Webb 1log 8*ore wa# high, the soles of hh feet **1 SWlm,ming vei7 Stroke. There were 110 jellyfish hPr«f 8]cywards at yellow, black, and white specie, ^hirh most, but there were a number of the smaTl*M?APH6' nograde Medusae ...

,R. FRANK BUCKLAND IN ALBANY- 1 ,- STREET

... like a fairy glass slipper, about an inch long, wiihout heels, and exquisitely fringed and finished off. It belongs to the jelly-fish tribe, and was alive and well when we saw it. The dining-room is thp, one room of the house preserved, but with difficulty ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1878
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 771 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR CHAMBERLAIN S MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT.)

... to put up some glib-tongued Tory to move a smooth amendment so rounded and polished in its phraseology as to enable the jelly-fish class of politicians to bolt it without grinning. Accordingly, last night, the candid friend of the Go- vernment appeared ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1878
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1255 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BATTLE OF THE (FREE LIBRARY) SITES IN CARDIFF

... down at Grief. We have the assurance of a dignitary of the Church of England that Anglicanism has too many clergymen of the jelly-fish order in its pale. Alderman Jones is all backbone. He is very much like those wretched English at Copenhagen (as the Danes ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1878
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1805 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ENGLISH VERSUS SCOTCH EDUCATION

... down at Grief. We have the assurance of a dignitary of the Church of England that Anglicanism has too many clergymen of the jelly-fish order in its pale. Alderman Jones is all backbone. He is very much like those wretched English at Copenhagen (as the Danes ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1878
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1816 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE, CARDIFF FREE LIBRARY SCHEME AND THE OBSTRUCTIVES.__

... cock-and-bull order, and professes to pull a long face over them. It will thus be seen that our contemporary it as slippery as a jelly-fish. He either for- gets what he has written, or thinks the public have, which would equally suit his purpose. Bat under this ...

Published: Tuesday 06 August 1878
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3267 | Page: 2 | Tags: News