You will also see icy versions of pagodas, skyscrapers, dragons and sea monsters.

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His works inspired by Margate include "The Old Pier", an oil painting from 1804, and "Sunrise with Sea Monsters" in 1846.

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Indeed, he has estimated the number of undiscovered sea monsters lurking in the world's oceans without leaving the comfort of his office.

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My first impression of the book wasn't favourable - I recall pining for sea monsters and pirates rather than reminiscences of a childhood holiday.

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These may not be the sea monsters Jules Verne describes in Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but Iceland is the setting for his famous novel.

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We emerge from the water like two sea monsters.

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At first, we see only what Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) sees: a blur of faces, which turn out to be the doctors and nurses at the hospital, who float into view in fearsome closeup, like deep-sea monsters.

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When God finally gets tired of waiting it out and decides to end things, the back-and-forth between dragons and serpents and sea monsters and Jesus is less like a scouring of the stables than like a Giants-Patriots Super Bowl.

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The octopus is certainly a delicacy to some while others steer clear of the tentacled monsters of the sea.

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