Items matching fish

Seamen in great distress eat one another

These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...]

Keywords: boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food

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Added: 2006-11-04

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Pisces

The zodiacal sign of pisces, two fish, here with a ribbon or rope bound from the tail of one to that of the other. “This zodiacal sign is said to symbolize the fishery of the Nile, which usually comme [...]

Keywords: fish, pisces, zodiac, astrology, february, march, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2006-06-03

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February

“— — Then came cold February, sitting In an old waggon, for he could not ride, Drawne of two fishes, for the season fitting, Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away; yet had he b [...]

Keywords: months, calendars, february, fish, people, carts, february, zodiac, pisces

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Added: 2006-02-14

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Lobster primping before a mirror

’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,     “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose     Trims his belt and his buttons, and tur [...]

Keywords: alice, fish, lobsters, cartoons, illustrations for children

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Added: 2006-10-30

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59.—British Pearl Shells. Natural Size.

a. Duck fresh-water Pearl Mussel (Anodon Anatinus). b. Swan ditto (Anodon Cygneus). “The pearl-fishery of Britain must have existed before the Roman invasion, for Suetonius says that the hope of acqu [...]

Keywords: fish

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Added: 2006-11-08

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Pisces (the fish, or two fishes)

Zodiac sign for Pisces taken from The Zodiac

Keywords: zodiac, astrology, symbols, fish

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Added: 2007-09-28

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