10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FATHER LASHER»
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Amid * heap of drift-weed stranded high on tbt beach by the previous tide, was a
defunct father-lasher, with the two defensive spine* which project from its gill-
covers, stuck fait into little cubes of cork ; and his previous acquaintance with the
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Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1858
tadpole form, and whose open mouth discloses an enormous cavern with a very
small exit at the farther end. The father-lasher lives under a stone. whence he
rushes forth at any moving thing. His head is armed at all points with long or short
, ...
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Cassell's popular natural history
Two allied species are the Sea Scorpion and the Father Lasher, THE SEA
SCOEPIOX.+ The Sea Scorpion, or Short-Spined Cottus, is veiy common on our
coasts, and is found very frequently under stones or sea-weeds, in the little pools
left by ...
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Loudon's Natural History: Popular Descriptions, Tales and ...
The Father Lasher— The Sword-Fish. 433 THE FATHER LASHER. ( Coitus
scorpiut.) THE whimsical denomination of Father Lasher, given to this fish, cannot
be easily accounted for ; perhaps it may be ascribablo to the quick and repeated
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John Claudius Loudon, William Sweetland Dallas, 1889
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British Salt-water Fishes
It seems to be rarer on our south-west coast than the father-lasher ; indeed,
Cunningham has not found it at Plymouth at all. McIntosh says that its eggs are
abundant on the east coast of Scotland in March, attached to stones, weeds, and
debris ...
Frederick George Aflalo, Robert Bright Marston, 1904
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A History of British Fishes
William Yarrell. ACANTHOPTERYGII. WITH HARD CHEEKS. Cottus bubalis,
Euphraien. „ ,, Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. i». p. 165, pi. 78. „ tcorpius,
Father- Lasher, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 294, pi. 44. „ „ Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 35.
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By the Deep Sea: A Popular Introduction to the Wild Life of ...
The more barbarous of the coast -boys delight in fixing corks to these spines, and
setting Father Lasher free, get amusement out of his vain efforts to seek his hole
at the bottom of the pool. The Father Lasher's colouring is a confusion of bands ...
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The Naturalist's Cabinet: Containing Interesting Sketches of ...
THE FATHER LASHER. THE head of this fish is armed with very strong and
extremely sharp spines, the largest ot" which are situated on the hind part, and
the smallest before. The mouth is large, and the jaws, as well as the root' of the
mouth, ...
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The progress of creation, considered with reference to the ...
subsist on the lump-sucker, and father-lasher, but when their nests are built on
high rocks, or beetling crags, the rhododendrum Kamtschaticum, a beautiful little
alpine plant, that throws its graceful blossoms over the weather- beaten-stones, ...
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A history of British fishes
William Yarrell. ACANTHOPTERYGII. WITH HARD CHEEKS. 4 4"“ \F ..."'\\.t\\\ ii- -
Cottus bubalis, Eurmusran. ,, ,, Cuv. et VALEnc. Hist- Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 165,
pl. 78. ,, scnrpius, Father-Lasher, Pnmv. Brit. Zoo1. vol. iii. p. 294, pl.44. ,, ,, ,, , ...
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... house to another on his donkey accompanied by his helper, Zwarter Piet (Black Pete, in Dutch) or Père Fouettard (Father lasher, in French). «Global Voices Online, Nov 13»
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7 What kind of creature is a Father Lasher? 8 Discovered in 2005, which is the largest of the dwarf planets and the most distant object from the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 10»
