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"A laborious, slow-moving and dripping wet film, barnacle-encrusted with solemnity and with a ripply-underwater production design that looks like a giant version of the kitschy items that you put in fish-tanks," he wrote.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2018

It was formerly laid out in marble with flower-beds, water-channels, fountains, and fish-tanks.

From A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood by Havell, E. B.

They finished the afternoon with a prolonged inspection of the fish-tanks, a light repast of jam tarts of questionable freshness, and twopennyworth of peanuts.

From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil