"Ulva" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shillings. I wonder if men often love their wives or children with the adoring tenderness that I lavished upon that bell-glass and its contents! I got sand and covered the bottom; I found two jagged stones and leaned them against each other on the sand; I gathered fronds of ulva latissima; I persuaded a boatman to bring me a bucket of salt-water from beyond the line of breakers, and I poured it carefully into the jar. During the next twenty-four hours I waited impatiently for the water to settle and clear; then I began to introduce the living inmates. I collected prawns ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne
... ye, would cross Lochgyle This dark and stormy water?" "O I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... styled the 'ulva latissima' by the scientific gentlemen who manufacture such titles, is a capital thermometer," said the Captain on putting in the laver. "You'll find he'll always rise to the surface when the weather is bright and sunny; while he sinks back to the bottom, as I've put him now, ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson |
