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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 

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 

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 

ARTHUR ROBERTS AS A FRENCH SOLDIER

... before bringing it up to town, I could not but revert to the old extemporised comedy. The piece was still in its amorphous or jelly-fish stage, and was never performed two nights alike. On Monday, the first act would go with a bang, and on Wednesday it would ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 654 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

WEEK-END PAPERS

... was first seen as a blaze of light as large as a bucket, ten or more feet below the surface, and supposed to be a large jellyfish. The finder called it a 4 fire-barrel,' not an exaggeration, as when the strange object reached the surface it was seen to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1363 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

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 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 

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 WORST MOMENT OF MY LIFE: No. XIII. MARIE TEMPEST

... rocks ready to tear and crush, hiding in their dark recesses the sinister octopus with its powerful, inescapable tentacles jelly-fish, whose sting is often fatal to human beings sharks, whose attack is so sudden and swift, and whose teeth are so merciless ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1433 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs