cork jacket

Example Sentences

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Someone threw a cork jacket over the girl's shoulders, and bade her fasten its straps around her waist.

From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis

Each man wore a cork jacket, but in spite of their encumbrances they were marvellously active.

From Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday, Russell

A cork jacket could be worn easier when rowing, and I would recommend it, but the thing of first importance is to have the right kind of boats, and know how to handle them.

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

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

The Red Un, quite safe and audacious in his cork jacket, turned over on his back and kicked.

From Love Stories by Rinehart, Mary Roberts