Sometimes a party of really Christian men unfamiliar with city ways will get into a variety dive by mistake, and what is more, into the boxes.
The girl's escort was at first terrified and felt like climbing one of the quarter-poles, all the females in the neighborhood shrieked, and the males began to dive under their seats.
I first take a dive into the index, a second dive into the preface, a third dive into the four hundredth page, the fourth dive into the seventieth page, and then seize my pen and do up the whole job in fifteen minutes.
When in this element, they try to escape by swimming to the ice, and when the ice is in the form of loose and detached small floes, Dr Sutherland has seen them dive underneath, and appear on the opposite side.
Trot up and down the towing-path as hard as you can, till you're warm and dry again, while I divefor the luncheon-basket.
Well might the terrified weaselsdive under the tables and spring madly up at the windows!
Mrs. Bowser giggled behind her fan and was too pleased to speak, and I took advantage of the lull to excuse myself and make a dive into the next room where I espied Luella.
Wallbridge and Eppner made a dive at once for a yelling broker, and a cold chill ran down my back.
At Wallbridge's onset I saw Lattimer and Eppner make a dive for him and then separate, following other shouting, screaming madmen who pirouetted about the floor and tried to save themselves from a mobbing.
Before the scream that accompanied the extinction of the lights had died away, I had made a dive beneath the table, and, lifting with all my might, had sent it crashing over with my enemy under it.
Another dive for the gripes on the dories, another shoot between rail and dories, a grip of the bow gripes, a swing around and I was at the forec's'le hatch.
If I hadn't hung on or been lashed to the wheel I could never have kept my feet, for at this time it was so bad that they had passed a line from my waist to the windward bitt and I was up to my waist with every dive of her.
There's another gone down, too--they'll dive that fellow.
The vessel was that way now, only with everydive she had hundreds of tons to lift from under.
The way he came up coughing and spitting and then his divefor the companionway--everybody had to roar.
They come up again, and without speaking a word dive again, and are much longer under water than the first time.
He had learned from observation that the loon with its marvellously brilliant eye seemed to be able to see the flash of the gun, and so quick were its movements that it could dive ere the bullets or other missiles reached it.
Fortunately it was in a large, shallow place, where the water was not more than four feet deep, and so the fish was unable to dive and had to keep near the surface.
Dive as far out to sea as you can, and you'll go into twenty feet of water.
The next moment, pausing only to sheathe his ensanguined sword, he took a graceful dive into the river.
These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly.
To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
When disabled so that it can neither dive nor fly, it is said to face its foe, look him in the face with its clear, piercing eye, and fight resolutely till death.
Presently some of the birds as they came round began to dive toward it, and the chippering was more animated than ever.
I watched her, saw her glistening brown body--perfectly visible through the filmy material of her single garment--dive under the last row of seats and emerge triumphant at the front while the press was still blocking the aisles.
Let us together dive into that air, that light, that verdure; amid those sprouting branches, in that flood of life and vegetation, which is even now inundating the whole earth!
Occasionally a startled doe would rustle through the leaves, and springing across the path, after a glance at us, dive into the thicket.
The narrow escape of Molly Seagrim, with some observations for which we have been forced to dive pretty deep into nature.
Chapter xi -- The narrow escape of Molly Seagrim, with some observations for which we have been forced to dive pretty deep into nature.
Or that certain amphibious animals, the beaver, the otter, and the muskrat, seeing her descent, hastened to dive and bring up sufficient mud to construct an island for her residence.
He calculated the length of his dive and came up with his lungs still half full of air.
The ball fell to the ground, but as he loosed her and prepared to kick it she made a quick dive and seized it.
Dive for it again," cried Henry, "and turn your heads toward the land!
Granddaddy Bullfrog was almost ready to dive into the Old Duck Pond to hide in the soft warm mud.
And what is more, Loving Mother Nature had taught her to dive into a snowbank where she could stay for the night as snug and warm as you please, when Old Mr. North Wind blew upon his chilly horn.
Giving his fire ship a mighty shove he sent it directly between the scows and then he made a great divedown and away.
Why, he'd go right to the bottom an' stick down so deep in the mud that the Injuns would hev to dive fur his scalp.
It would be quite in accordance with their habits that one of these Otaria should dive under a ship, and rise above the surface on either side, eagerly surveying those on board, in hope of obtaining food, or from mere curiosity.
I thought, if I could just dive down into the water, I could catch my tarpon, and then Mr. Stuart could pull us both back into the boat.
Then Bab prepared to diveinto the ocean after her fish.
Another amusement is to dive for Apples in a tub of water.
In the North young people dive for Apples, and for divining purposes fling Nuts into the fire; hence the vulgar name of Nut-crack Night.
When circumstances require quick action such men will dive under the prahu and put their backs to it from the other side.
He tied it to the stern railing until night, when he put it on top of the cargo, apprehending that it might try to dive if tempted by the constant sight of the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
