diving-stone

Their diving-stone, poised on its rude supports and rocking under their plunges, and the rough-hewn stones of the sloping breakwater over which they scrambled in their horseplay gleamed with cold wet lustre.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

His diving-stone, to keep him at the bottom, is got ready, and, after offering up his devotions, he leaps into the water.

Diamonds and Pearls 1969

His diving-stone, to keep him at the bottom, is got ready, and, after offering up his devotions, he leaps into the water.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

Their diving-stone, poised on its rude supports and rocking under their plunges, and the rough-hewn stones of the sloping breakwater over which they scrambled in their horseplay gleamed with cold wet lustre.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

Their diving-stone, poised on its rude supports and rocking under their plunges, and the rough-hewn stones of the sloping breakwater over which they scrambled in their horseplay gleamed with cold wet lustre.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

Their diving-stone, poised on its rude supports and rocking under their plunges, and the rough-hewn stones of the sloping breakwater over which they scrambled in their horseplay gleamed with cold wet lustre.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

Each diver's attendant has charge of two ropes slung over a railing above the side of the boat: one suspends the diving-stone, and the other a wide-mouthed basket of network.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

His diving-stone, to keep him at the bottom, is got ready, and, after offering up his devotions, he leaps into the water.

Diamonds and Pearls 1861