Rick fitted his mouthpiece and checked the seal of his mask.
Then the mouthpiece was pulled away from Rick's lips in mid-breath, and he choked on sea water.
For a moment he debated suggesting that they share one tank by trading the mouthpiece back and forth, but that would leave one of them practically without air when they had to leave.
Instead of bothering with the snorkel, Rick kept the aqualung mouthpiece in place and swam a few feet under the surface, guiding himself by the wake of the others.
Rick hooted for Scotty's attention, then lifted his head and let his mouthpiece fall free.
He pulled Scotty and Tony to him, then let his mouthpiece drop.
He gripped the mouthpiece of his snorkel between his teeth, the rubber flange under his lips, and slid into the water.
As the mouthpiece of the House he delivers on its behalf addresses of thanks to whomever Parliament delights to honour; he censures those who have incurred its displeasure.
If you are the mouthpiece of the White, who is the mouthpiece of the Black?
She turned to the mouthpiece again and encouraged the operator with a soothing flow of words.
He replaced the receiver and picked up the mouthpiece of the dictaphone again, paying no further attention to me.
Sidney Rigdon was then themouthpiece of Joseph Smith, as Aaron was of Moses in olden times.
While the sport was at its height Sidney Rigdon, the mouthpiece of the Prophet, rushed into the ring, sword in hand, and said that he would not suffer a lot of men to break the Sabbath day in that manner.
The son of Radja-sing held in his left hand the amber mouthpiece of his pipe.
In the right hand each assistant held a small tin tube about eighteen inches long; at one end was a mouthpiece to receive the lips of the operator, and the other spread out so as to form a cover to the little tripod.
Huneefa lazily, scarce troubling to remove the mouthpiece from her lips.
They make great promises; they speak as the mouthpiece of a Kaisar with gifts.
I say so, as the--ah--mouthpiece of a large and influential majority of earnest and enlightened Englishmen!
Fancy the mouthpiecehas had quite enough champagne!
He ties it around his neck, puts the mouthpiece to his lips, and blows the bag full of wind.
Hanging from the mouthpiece were two pieces of stout cord.
Mimnermus confined the metre to its more plaintive melodies, and made it the mouthpiece of lamentations over the fleeting beauty of youth and the evils of old age.
No tragic portion is more piteous than this of her who was the clear-eyed seer of coming woes, the unwilling mouthpiece of dread oracles, doomed alike to knowledge worse than ignorance, and to the scorn that falls on idle babblers.
He is far less the mouthpiece of the heavenly Muse than a man like ourselves, touching his lyre at times with a divine grace, and then again sweeping the chords with a fretfulness that draws some jarring notes.
The casing was open at the breech end, but at the outer end was contracted into a narrow mouthpiece that extended beyond the muzzle.
The mouthpiece was so formed that as the bullets passed through it they sucked air through the chambers, thereby cooling the gun.
Will, being themouthpiece of the party, and accustomed, moreover, at times to a precise and methodical manner of delivery, was the chief speaker.
I, Deucalion, have been appointed King of Atlantis by the High Council of the Priests who are the mouthpiece of the most High Gods, and if I do not have my reign, then there will be no Atlantis left to carry either King or Empress.
I marry the Empress because Zaemon, who is mouthpiece to the High Council of the Priests, has ordered it, for the good of Atlantis.
It was clear that Zaemon was the mouthpiece of the Priests' Clan, duly appointed; and I also was a priest.
The other Evangelists might pass it by; but how could Peter ever forget the balm which that message of pardon and restoration brought to him, and how could Peter's mouthpiece leave it out?
We all know, I suppose, that the common tradition is that Mark was, in some sense, Peter's mouthpiece in this Gospel.
In mid-1970 the country continued to be Communist China's only European ally and its mouthpiece in the United Nations.
Bashkimi (Union) is published by the Democratic Front and is the mouthpieceof the government.
Tell him the cops've got nothin' on me, but I wants me mouthpiece there just the same--case of a tie.
Here you, Louie," he bade one of them, "jump to the telephone and notify a certain party to have me mouthpiece at Headquarters by the time I kin get there with these two dicks.
The mouthpiece of the pipestem was gently presented to the lips and the breath drawn through.
The mouthpiece of a pipe should always be passed about the circle and offered to the four directions before it is formally smoked.
Larry the Bat, staring into the mouthpiece of the instrument, subconsciously passed his hand across his forehead, and subconsciously noted that his fingers, as he drew them away, were damp.
Jimmie Dale pressed his hand firmly over themouthpiece of the telephone.
A mouthpiece before the diaphragm directed the sounds upon it, and as it vibrated with them, the soft iron 'armature' induced corresponding currents in the cells of the electro-magnet.
The voice was concentrated upon it by means of a mouthpieceand a diaphragm.
Above all, it is the devil himself who delivers his oracles through the mouthpiece of those teachers of the innovations who differ from Luther, deluding them to such an extent that they lose “their senses and their reason.
He is the instrument of a glorious purpose worthy of God; he is the mouthpiece of a revelation waiting to be spoken since the world began, that is addressed to all mankind and interests heaven along with earth.
He is in the midst of the excitement it has produced, and is himself its chief agent and mouthpiece (iii.
