cork jacket
Example Sentences
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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
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 sees the coxswain in his cork jacket kneeling over Captain Harry.
From Within the Tides by Conrad, Joseph
He took off his coat and got her into it, binding her cork jacket around.
From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max
The plank was rent from him, but his cork jacket brought him up.
From Benita, an African romance by Haggard, Henry Rider
