diving dress
Example Sentences
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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
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
In an hour the sloop had been warped close to the wreck and Jimmy put on the diving dress.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
Ah, man, that poor diving dress of self-conceit is sadly tattered!
From The Ebb-Tide by Osbourne, Lloyd
Self-contained Diving Dress.—The object of the self-contained diving dress is to make the diver independent of air supply from the surface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
