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NUITS DE FOLIES

... cabaret-revues, but that time is not yet. However, if one does not see fishermen at the London Casino, one sees fish of sorts jelly-fish, sea-anemones, sea-horses, and an octopus, though I do not suggest that these would form part of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's ...

THE CLUBMAN: The Imperialistic Cure

... have gladly accepted the principle of universal military training, would send their battalions and squad rons to help a jellyfish country that could not coax enough of its young men into its battalions to bring them to the strength which was the minimum ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1116 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE THREATENED NETHERLANDS: Belgium Clings to Her Neutrality but Her Heart is With the Allied Cause

... in the light again \\Te scramble out of the Nord Station into wet air where the lights of Brussels swim like illuminated jelly-fish. The raindrops spurt up from the pavement with the venom of fangs from a million angry serpents. Not much of a welcome ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1023 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

The Game Fish of the Gulf of Suez

... rather pig-shaped head and the pectoral fin is of great length and sickle-shaped. The khunny, or milk fish, feeds only on the jellyfish, and can be caught by using a gut cast with a single hook and a small strip of fresh cuttlefish. He is rather like a huge ...

SOCIETY ON WHEELS

... the ocean faster than the ordinary rowing-boat can be propelled overhead, provided that the machine does not skid upon a jelly-fish or any such slippery customer. So, at least, I gather from an American journal, which contains also a portrait of the gentleman ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1035 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

A NIGHT TRIP UN A FISHING COBLE

... in my desire to help, my repugnance of such a task, 1 next assist to scrape together armfuls of glowing sea-wrack and jelly-fish that have to be thrown overboard again. The shutts (bottom-boards) are slippery with slime and wet, and I slide and bump ...

Cort and Boled

... So now, impatient but beloved readers, for a week or two, au revoir. Think of me, or not, as you tread barefoot upon a jellyfish along the shores that round our coast from Deal to Ramsgate span, or when you are bowled out by a leg-spinning star-fish ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 928 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

PRISCILLA IN PARIS

... work with her limbs than I did in the next thirty seconds 1 When I came up again the celebrated imitachun was that of a jelly-fish much battered, and I clung weakly to the rope that had been brought down 'case of 'mergencies and that my horrified friends ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1920
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 884 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

BIG GAME FISHING IN EGYPT: King Fish and Barracouta--Tunny and Yellow-tail--Good Fishing Round Tivan and ..

... Khunni, or Milk Fish, a wonderfully- shaped and very beautiful sixteen-pounder, which possesses a soft mouth and eats only jelly-fish. The bulges were due to the movements of either turtles or porpoises, and the scurries of fry were the result of attacks ...

THE CLUBMAN: PREMATURE PROMISES: POSTCARD FICTIONS: GERMAN GROUND-BAIT; Generous Diplomacy

... seems to have died down, and all the Teuton gold spent in obtaining control of native newspapers has been wasted. China is a jelly-fish a live thing, but entirely inert and, though the Chinese fight very fiercely amongst themselves, the newborn republic is ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1210 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BOOK AND ITS STORY: DR. ANDREW WILSON IN THREE VOLUMES

... telling it is as conspicuous in his writings as in his speaking and, as with ants, so with such unpromising subjects as jelly-fish and flounders, he contrives to lay his finger upon any peculiar lurking interest accruing, and presents in an entirely new ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1137 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMAN OUT OF TOWN: Mermaidens and Mermen

... like very sober minded acrobats in costume. They were having a mighty merry time when we shouted to them that a gigantic jelly-fish was going their way. It looked like a yellow-and-white parachute. .The news sent them all scuttling a-beach, and our skipper ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1231 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs