diving dress
Example Sentences
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The poor diving dress of self-conceit was sadly tattered!
From The Ebb-Tide by Osbourne, Lloyd
The muffled, stiff clumsiness of his diving dress revealed a heroic figure, still disposed in the attitude of a sitting Buddha, with the leaden-soled diving shoes thrust out by either knee.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
One of the men puts a diving dress over his suit of heavy flannels.
From Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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)
He gave orders for the engine room force to stand by and then arranged for himself, Ned, and Koku to go outside in diving dress and cut the weed off the shafts.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
