diving dress
Example Sentences
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A child, with a few hours to think it over, could have seen the connection between my diving dress and the loss of the Ocean Pioneer.
From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
He had slipped into his diving dress and was at the moment adjusting the breastplates of lead, weighing twenty-five pounds each, to his chest and back.
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
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
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)
The disposition of the screws corresponds with that of the holes in the india-rubber collar of the diving dress described below.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
