"Jellyfish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Calling, clamouring—canal, canal, canal! Out on the sea, restive and sloppy, A waste of salinity, So they aver, There are ships with masts, sails, halyards, Spankers, booms and things; There are lobsters and jellyfish—not here. Nothing here but illimitable mysteries, Baffling unknowledgeableness, Fathomless, fainting from square to square, Oblongs and nosey triangles, ever so nosey, Shapes rhomboidal, perchance rhombohedral—who knows? Puce and mustard-tinted—delicate, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 • Various
... brace up and exert his will power he'd get better. But what is the use of asking a jellyfish to sit up straight?" continued Marilla. "Thomas Lynde never had any will power to exert. His mother ruled him till he married and then Rachel carried it on. It's a wonder he dared to get sick without asking her ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... a strange jellyfish, the like of which I had never before seen. It was about as large as a good-sized cantaloup, and pale, clear yellow all over one end and down through the middle, and then commenced a dark red fringe which had a waving motion. Inside this fringe was a scalloped circular appendage that ...
— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey
... to her husband's side, and her evident nervousness also of her mate. She sat erect, enjoying the slow uplift and descent of the boat with a responsive body. She gazed over-side into the transparent deeps, where large jellyfish were shining like sunken moons. I got out my pipe. This suggested something to our other passenger, and he got out his. He fumbled out his pouch and filled up. He then regarded the loaded pipe thoughtfully, but presently put it away, and leaned forward, gazing at the bottom of the boat. ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson
... five shots would signify the arrival of the Germans, and that every inhabitant was then to grab rations and make for the horizon. The welcome the French handed to us would have stirred the blood of a jellyfish. ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various
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