diving dress

Example Sentences

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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)

Accordingly, on the completion of the meal, the quartette descended to the diving-room, and there donned their armour, taking the additional precaution of adding a flannel overall to their ordinary inner diving dress.

From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Browne, Gordon

"Let me put a diving dress on," began the old hunter.

From Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder by Rockwood, Roy

Ah, man, that poor diving dress of self-conceit is sadly tattered!

From The Ebb-Tide by Osbourne, Lloyd

Otherwise the buoyancy of the diving dress, filled as it is with air, would send him to the surface.

From Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank by Barnum, Vance