... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... wrote:—A police magistrate, indeed I should as soon think of appl\ ing_to the police inagi.-trate to protect me fr ...

... morning. On the following night a most curious circumstance occurred which would hardly be credited. The ship as stopped by jelly-fish, which shortly after one o'clock ap- peared in myriads as far as the eye could reach, and the thousands of luminous bodies ...

... y measure. This is not the kind of thing that invertebrate animals are accustomed to do or capable of doing. The Duke's jelly-fish won't wash. But it served its purpose for the moment and rounded off a clever speech. After this there was a long blank ...

... spiteful. Apropos of these displays, Mr Gladstone summed up their merits and demerits in the simple remark that you were a jelly-fish. ...

... purposeless, unfruitful life is not only woeful, but sinful; that to waste existence is cause of guiltiness. There are moral jellyfish without a bone in their constitu- tions, respecting whom it is difficult for one not to use the words uttered by the Psalmist ...