Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spherical glass vessel in which fish are kept.
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Examples
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The fish-globe can be of white or any colour glass you prefer, and your fish vivid or pale in tone; whichever it is, be sure that they furnish a needed -- not a superfluous -- tone of colour in a room or on a porch.
The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood
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But his aim was poor and the walking stick, striking the edge of the table, glanced off and hit a fish-globe, smashing it to pieces and sending the water and the goldfish flying in every direction.
The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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"Next time you go down, give a fellow warning," retorted his brother, scrambling to his feet; and then the two boys, with Jack and Fred, entered the sitting-room, doing this just as their fathers came in from the direction of the kitchen and just when old Uncle Randolph made his unfortunate attack on the fish-globe.
The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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"I'm awfully sorry, Uncle Randy, you broke the fish-globe," said Randy, contritely, "but I'm glad you saved the fish."
The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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I use, for the purpose of taming mice, a glass fish-globe, out of which none of the other mice could get, but I have repeatedly seen specimens of _M. urbanus_ jump clear out of the opening at the top.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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"Now, if a fish-globe be not overcrowded with fishes, we have only to throw in a goodly handful of some water-weed, -- such as the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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As it is, your actions have upset the whole house, brought on the destruction of the fish-globe, and the cook is so upset that she has threatened to leave. "
The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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fishbowl
December 20, 2010