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... shipped four gallons of water into the hold of the engine. Sea -water has a strange effect on plugs, and a kind of small jelly-fish formed on each. With felt washers and the attachment of chimneys we got over this. Very little water got past the tappets ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1919
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1328 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

With Silent Friends: The Ideal

... The nearest we get to such a type is the business man with imagination-- though, of course, the com parison is that of a jelly-fish to a whale. Dreamers can so rarely do anything else but dream. More, I realise, cannot well be expected of them, perhaps ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1919
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2650 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

AS COMPARED TO WAR

... you're sick. T'ank you, thir, T lisped, as I took two half- crowns. nice pwetty Silly, fat, half-witted, alcoholic jellyfish, continued Pottie, so we had to run the whole way to the club house. Next day I played Jumbo, who had no caddie. He was ...

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 

THE STAGE OF THE DAY

... leg at Arras (what a joke it seemed to everybody but Gustave), and Marcel, who went down the line after being stung by a jellyfish at Dunkirk. I would rather go ou talking about these epic characters than about M. Andre Brule's version of Arsene Lupin ...

A DIVER amongst the MACKEREL SHOALS

... is laid on the opportunities afforded the diver of studying certain phenomena connected with the habits of mackerel, jellyfish, plankton, and other deep-water inhabitants. In the course of his communication our correspondent (in addition to furnishing ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 629 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

CONFESSIONS OF AN AGITATED SPORTSMAN: PART IV.--ON THE TRAIL OF THE COWARDLY COUGAR

... trees and queer rock formations assume the likeness of prehis toric monsters, and one has no more sense of direction than a jellyfish. There is a constant temptation to ride off into space, and no little danger of doing so, for the earth's surface breaks ...

PICTURES IN THE FIRE

... a most inane manner. I said, Hullo aren't you well? He said, Oh yes! I said, What's the matter? You look like a mangy jelly-fish. He said, No, I don't I contradicted him. He said, You ought to be very pleased to sre me. I only went to bed at ten ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1924
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2383 | Page: 62 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WONDERLAND OF NATURE: The Last of a Series of Three Articles Describing the Wonderland Beneath the Sea

... light, there are ten to fifteen jolly little fishes in the water with the jelly-fish. Where did they come from you ask. They came from under neath the umbrella of the jelly-fish, which has pockets opening below. The little fishes swim in and out of these ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2068 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... duced their species in the tanks are the following creatures sea-lion. dog-fish, pipe-fish, perch, shrimp, trout, herring, jelly-fish, skate, craw-fish, whelk, axolotl, etc. A Pisciculture! Exhibition. I stated in that un fortunate paragraph that the Brighton ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1633 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

FRIDAY TO MONDAY--AND AN ISLAND

... road bed consists of nothing but loose stones, bordered by slippery sea weed, encumbered with great, gelatinous masses of jelly-fish and deep pools of sea water that are not particularly healthy for the springs of a car. Every three or four hundred yards ...

MARINE LIFE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN: What Recent Research has Revealed Concerning the Marine Creatures of ..

... animals of many kinds. At a depth of 110 to 164 yards in the ocean occur mirror-like and silvery fishes and dark-coloured jellyfishes, while deeper again but above a depth of about 550 yards, occur fishes with telescopic eyes which are turned upwards to ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2050 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs