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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

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, ...

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 ...

SCRAPS FROM PUNCH’S ALMANACK

... the sun was in his eyes.—We never tasted oysters opened by an amateur without fancying we were swallowing a mixture of bad jelly-fish and gritty gravel walk.— We never won a ‘fifty’ of a gentleman at billiards who called the marker by his Christian name ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1857
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1282 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE

... the sun was in his eyes. We never tasted oysters opened by an amateur without fancying we were swallowing a mixture of bad jelly-fish and gritty gravel-walk. We never knew a lady of sufficient strength of mind to mend her husband's stockings before a morning ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1858
Newspaper: Cheltenham Examiner
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 991 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Odds and Ends for the Scray Book

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

Published: Tuesday 29 November 1859
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1875 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

eltaniugo

... mysterious subject. It is now no longer a matter of doubt that almost all the inferior marine animals, particularly the jelly-fishes, many molusses, sad anuelides, crustaceans and infuaoria, possess the faculty of emitting a phosphoric light, and adding ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1860
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 4193 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Littrarq tlAnnirle

... And the very best novel she frivolous calls— Little Amy the blue. If I get her to go for a stroll by the sea She describes jelly-fish. Sertnlarise really are nothing to me-1 respond with a Fish! If with her in the woodlands I dream of my love, She makee ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1861
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3510 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SONNET WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH

... them ; Soft, brilliant, tender, through the wave they glow, And make the moonbeam brigbter where they flow.” These curious jelly-fishes are little more than “coagulated water.” They arc, however, possessed of loconiokive powers, and generally shun the shore ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1863
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8620 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHRONICLE, JANUARY 243, 1866. THE CHOLERA. IN MALTA

... only thing I du know is, that we were prevented bathing in the sea several days by the immense number of purple medusa, or jelly-fish, (called by the French Famrprea, by the Maltese brwma) which sting like a nettle. All the servants and others assured us ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1866
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3548 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BEWARE OF THE SHARKS

... —Doctors'COMlllons. (From Fun.) TRANSPARENCIES. By a Mega:ine rata::. If I were a jelly-fish great and good, Oh, what a jelly-fish I would be! But I can't be a jellyfish e'en if I would, ..tnd so, as a jelly-fisb, look not on me ! To float away on the ...