Word: deep-sea
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...Square miles of water, colored purple by hosts of jellyfish; hundreds of paper nautili, attached to one another in long strings; transparent flounders with lacy fins; deep-sea mackerel flashing blue and yellow lights...
...company went forth at the in stance of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society. The Arcturus, equipped for deep-sea fishing, has a drum and seven miles of cable, with trawls to catch fish at various depths. One of the chief objects of this Odyssey is to catch the self-illuminated deep-sea fish, the little monsters of the great depths. Dr. Beebe has expressed hope of capturing a giant squid, one of the great octopi with tentacles many feet in length. Scars which these sucking tentacles have left have been found on whales' sides...
Assymetrical Forms Ascending, Triangular Etude, Structures, Fairy Tale of the Orient, Projected Four-Dimensional Stage Settings for a Fantastic Play. Such were the compositions of Mr. Wilfred. On the screen, like dyes filtered through fathomless deep-sea canisters, colors fainted, burned, swelled, darkened, dwindled, incredibly clear; patterns crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with...
...reasons may seem, they are not conclusive. Fishes are known to exist five miles down, where the temperature is about the same and the pressure almost as great. For a popular explanation of how these miracles are possible, one has only to refer to the chapter on "Cave and Deep-Sea Life" in Professor Richard Swan Lull's Organic Evolution (Macmillan, 1920). I fear that some of your readers may have been led by your publication of Subscriber DuCloe's letter into discounting some of Nature's true miracles. It would seem clear that the statements...
...seems all right. On the opening night she thinks she is all right. So that when her husband conscientiously explains to her that she not only was not good, but was absurd, her pride suffers a fall. Her comeback, however, is immediate. She gives him a devil and deep-sea to choose between. Either she continues to act or she leaves...