diving dress
Example Sentences
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He was put down in a diving dress in about eight feet of water, where he bubbled and struggled about in great style.
From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)
Ah, man, that poor diving dress of self-conceit is sadly tattered!
From The Ebb-Tide by Osbourne, Lloyd
Some ten minutes later Jack and Milsom appeared on deck, each attired in an improved Fleuss diving dress, by the use of which the necessity for air-pumps and pipes was done away with.
From The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Cuneo, Cyrus
Rather sooner than they expected the bubbles moved back; and Moran looked crestfallen when they took off his diving dress.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
Ned, are you game for another try in the diving dress?
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
