Crossword-Solution: JELLYFISH 9 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

They found a jellyfish--a pulpy translucent mass; and once even caught a sight of a seal in the hollow of a breaker, with sleek and shining head, his barbels bristling, and heard his hoarse croaking bark as he hunted the off-shore fish.

The picture of that patient, gentle old fellow, hobbling about his compound and puzzling over his _Pilgrim’s Progress_, a cripple for life after five months of blazing glory, would have stiffened the back of a jellyfish.

And again,' says I, 'when I engage people in a set-to of oral, vocal, and laryngeal utterances, I do not usually confine my side of the argument to what may be likened to a cheap phonographic reproduction of the ravings of a jellyfish.' "'Oh, I know,' says Fergus, amiable, 'that I'm not handy at small talk.

She said, I believe, that she didn’t want his flowers; he could buy them for you, and be damned to him, or some lady-like equivalent.” “Jim is a jellyfish,” I said contemptuously.

One might go far afield and gather less forceful indictments—the horrific spider spinning his trap for the unthinking fly; the lovely Drosera (Sundew) using its crimson calyx for a smothering-pit in which to seal and devour the victim of its beauty; the rainbow-colored jellyfish that spreads its prismed tentacles like streamers of great beauty, only to sting and torture all that falls within their radiant folds.