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Who gave you authority to decide whether they should have a pass or not?" Completely overcome by this last remark, Hans collapsed like a jelly-fish out of water, and reflected in his worthless old heart that Frank Muller was indeed "a devil of a man."
While they ate it, twilight became night, and the fire-flies, twinkling in legions in the neighbouring valley, seemed like the lamps of a great city. "Their lights," said Bearwarden, pointing to them, "are not as fine as the jelly-fish Will-o'-the wisps were last night, but they are not so dangerous.
He looked about him with interest for a likely victim, but in vain. "What are you looking at?" he demanded, impatiently, as Blundell suddenly came to a stop and gazed curiously into the harbour. "Jelly-fish," said the other, briefly. "I never saw such a monster. It must be a yard across." Mr.
What millions upon millions of animalcules, and these again multiplied, must contribute to produce this aquatic illumination. During the day, large turtles, schools of dolphins, flying-fish, occasional water snakes, together with whole shoals of jelly-fish, were encountered on the widespread tropical sea.
It's these jelly-fish that go camping with a whole savings bank in their pockets and no shovel to dig a drain ditch with that's the kind that think about money! You make me sick. Turn your pockets inside out, Alf, and let them see what you've got go ahead!" All the while Mr. Ellsworth kept saying, "Shh, shh, Roy," but what did I care? Even he couldn't stop me.
It was a strange world on which he gazed. Water was everywhere, above, below, and on all sides, and strange weeds and vegetables grew up from hidden rocks. A graceful jelly-fish floated past, expanding and contracting its umbrella-shaped body, and waving about its long arms or tentacles.
His daughters used to secure him as many stomachs as possible, and from their contents he picked out an immense number of beautiful and valuable specimens. The bill of fare of the cod alone comprised an incredible variety of small crabs, shells, shrimps, sea-mice, star-fish, jelly-fish, sea anemones, eggs, and zoophytes. All these went to swell Edward's new collection of marine animals.
There is only one course of life that has no disappointments. We all know how frequently we are foiled in our quests; we all know how often a prize won is a bitterer disappointment than a prize unattained. Like a jelly-fish in the water, as long as it is there its tenuous substance is lovely, expanded, tinged with delicate violets and blues, and its long filaments float in lines of beauty.
That was a near shave about the haystack. I nearly tripped us up there. Awful creature, that woman!" "Looks like a jelly-fish come loose," threw in Dollops with a snort. "There's ole Borkins, sir, straight ahead. 'Ere in through this gap in this edge and then across the field by the side of 'im.... Weren't such a rough night after all, was it, sir?" Cleek sighed.
At the right moment this film is torn open by the convulsive contractions of the animal, which, thus freed from its envelope, begins at once to expand. By this time this little bud has assumed the form of a Medusoid or Jelly-Fish disk, with its four tubes radiating from the central cavity.
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