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THE ART OF THE DAY

... Colours. silent waters, a few days, in the culmination of the heat, bring forth translucent living creatures, many-shaped jelly-fish, coloured like mother-of-pearl. And elsewhere she speaks of the passing from the winter blue to the summer blue, from the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2055 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMEN: The Scientists Speak: The Weaker Sex: Undeterred; In Search of Genius: Hints to Hostesses: The Tipping ..

... as dancing, music, noetrv. and even painting, to our flagellate ancestors. Our flagellate ancestors, by the way, were jellyfish Sir James Henderson, again, looks forward, and prophesies the future development of the race towards a time when there will ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1957 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHANCE ENCOUNTER

... Looke's Wil lows. Same fox, miss, shouted the old huntsman as he passed her. Old Bidabout had known her since she Was a jellyfish in a basket chair rocking about on the old bay pony. Erin opened the gate dex terously. In the lane the thundering field ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1911
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1683 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STORY OF A STRANGE BARRIER: The Story of the Downfall of Persia, a C3 of Nations, at the Hands of the ..

... of the Caliph Sulaiman, was deputed to the attack of Constanti nople at that time and for many years before and after a jellyfish of a place whose sedentary mer chants shook in their sandals at the name of that Islam which was surging round them, east ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1903 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... World War III must be short aril sweet if there is to be any life on this planet before tlii year a.d. 6254, and then what Jellyfish again. Here and There While some of us ail cleverly missing what grouse there are and !ial there are, in my experience, arc ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2180 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THINGS OLD AND NEW

... chaos. I shrewdly respect that human nature au fond despite its publicity agents has not advanced irreclaimably from the jelly-fish age of Victoria. And that in English homes, wealthy or humble, the schoolroom ideals still stand in their niches, and the ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1937 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

With Silent Friends

... of champagne at her wedding break fast, she described the result as trying to control her mind felt rather like leading a jellyfish on a piece of elastic. Taken separately these stories are readable enough, but the book read through from beginning to end ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2292 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

BY THE AUGUST SHORE: STRANGE LIGHTS AT SEA: How these Extraordinary Exhibitions of Luminosity Occur is Told ..

... illans, and on the right copepoda or pseudocalanus-elongatus, but there are also many other species, even to the larger jellyfish. A very interesting point in connec tion with this luminosity is that it occurs in salt water only, not in fresh. The ancients ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2437 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ICE-HOLE

... nor even shirt. He raised a pleading hand and the coat parted. His dark-blue stomach was quivering like an electrocuted jelly-fish, rippling, jiggling convulsively, horribly. Maxim Maximovitch, you gave me an Easter present. Will you give me a Christmas ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1864 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS

... ending. After all, Reginald was too nice to be made unhappy. He hadn't any backbone, and was rather like an over-refined jellyfish, but he preached beautifully preached, too, nice little moral sermons which could not possibly offend anybody. Thus he is ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2436 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

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