cork jacket

Example Sentences

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Who'd care to swim in a cork jacket!

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

Now that the work of the day was over Dave's mind went back to the scene of the morning, when he had handled his baby garments and the cork jacket.

From Cowboy Dave by Webster, Frank V.

Dave sadly laid down the cork jacket and went out.

From Cowboy Dave by Webster, Frank V.

By May he is ascending at Singapore, armed here, however, with a cork jacket.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie

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