I say that the dabchick sometimes dives like this, for he has many ways of doing so, and it is not very often that he will repeat the same thing twice in succession.
The guillemot dives more or less like the razorbill, but I have not been successful in tracing him under the water.
She dives more quickly, and comes up each time with a larger load, so large, sometimes, that her head is pulled right back as she drags it along the surface of the water.
It dives down and reappears, shortly, with some dank weediness in its bill, which it proceeds to peck about and swallow on the surface.
Then it dives again, comes up with some more, which it likewise eats, and does this several times in succession.
The shag, if I mistake not, never dives in any other way than that which I have described, unless he is really alarmed, when he disappears instantaneously and in a dishevelled manner.
They slipped away in screamingdives and left Red Flight to watch from above.
With a rush like a sudden thought the white-barred eave-swallows came down the arid road and rose again into the air as easily as a man dives into the water.
Man but dives in death; Dives from the sun, in fairer day to rise; The grave, his subterranean road to bliss.
But he must live among the destitute to whom he owes alms, and he cherishes at the bottom of his heart a secret bitterness towards the indolent Dives who, with full pockets, dispatches him, with empty pockets, on a mission of charity.
The greatest rustic, when in a woman's presence, dives down into the depths of his memory for some fragment of chivalric gallantry.
St. Pierre-sur-Dives and the collegiate at Eu are later monastic works of the province.
In Abraham's bosom it shall dwell 'Mid verdant bowers, as Lazarus lies Whom Dives sees with longing eyes From out the far-off fires of hell.
Manzoni dives down into the innermost recesses of the human heart, and draws thence the most subtle psychological reality.
Petrarch is a psychological poet, who dives down into his own soul, examines all his feelings, and knows how to render them with an art of exquisite sweetness.
This is repeated four or five times, till, finally, convinced that I mean no harm and yet timorous and fearful of betrayal even in the act, he dives down into the bramble bush.
As was to be expected after the day of frantic speculation and quick money changing, the lower Avenue was ablaze with light, the sidewalks were passes of peril, and the saloons and dives were reaping a rich harvest.
From early dawn the saloons and dives had been adding fuel to the flames, and light-heartedness and good-natured horse-play were giving way to sardonic humor and brutality.
Below, Dives in Torments (in a very Flemish Hell) calling to Lazarus.
Take the narrow street which dives beneath it, looking back as you pass at the archway with its inscription of S.
Triptych (sawn in two), with the Patience of Job inside, and Lazarus and Dives outside.
When a large fish is speared, it is pressed downwards to the ground, and the native leaps out of his canoe and dives to the bottom to secure it.
We came at length to the ridge where the road dives suddenly into Tregarrick.
He was so elated over this victory that he apparently forgave William on the spot for his Dives sermon, and handed him ten dollars on quarterage to indicate the return of his good will.
When alarmed at night, he dives into the water, and, by means of his tail, splashes so violently as to give warning to all beavers within a half-mile distance.
The depths to which the cinclid dives for the food on the bottom is often from fifteen to twenty feet.
He has a very natural and cunning way of solving this problem; he simply seeks a deep portion of the river and dives through the turbid water to the clear water beneath, where he can plainly see the "goodies" on the bottom.
The words about Dives and Lazarus threw no light upon it at first.
Was that the Dives he had thought of, the soul in pain so wistful, so sad, yet scarcely able to despair?
She pointed to one column in the paper and watched her mother with eyes like those of Dives in the picture.
The Bee now begins the whole performance over again, that is to say, she once more dives head first to the bottom of the cell, though she has nothing left to disgorge, as her crop has just been emptied.
She dives head first into the cell; and for a few moments you see some spasmodic jerks which show that she is disgorging the honey-syrup.
The Bee therefore visits the chambers one by one, dives right down to the bottom and ends by finding what she seeks, that is to say, what was in her nest when she started on her last journey, the nucleus of a store of food.
First, she diveshead foremost into the cell, to disgorge the contents of her crop; next, she comes out and at once goes in again backwards, to brush her abdomen and rub off the load of pollen.
Aungeles that in helle now ben Hadden joye som tyme; And Dives in the deyntees lyvede, And in douce vie.
Dives deyde dampned, For his unkyndenesse {364} Of his mete and of his moneie To men that it nedede.
His grand idea is that we all go down on the Bowery and visit tough dives where the foul creatures of the underworld consort and crime happens every minute or two.
I been in lots of swell dives and never see no whisk broom served with a drink before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
