cork jacket

Example Sentences

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But it was some sort of a cork jacket.

From Cowboy Dave by Webster, Frank V.

To marry that young lady—I don't like to speak her name even—is about as difficult as to dive in a cork jacket or keep a smelt in a net.

From The City in the Clouds by Gull, C. Ranger

He had on his cork jacket and was saved, though he was ducked again and carried along swiftly by the tremendous current.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

And Mr. Maston even did not hesitate to put on a cork jacket to save and find his friends again.

From Topsy-Turvy by Verne, Jules

Who'd care to swim in a cork jacket!

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various