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She leaps into the air—several feet higher than my best diving-board jump—and lands on the tips of her toes.

Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010

She leaps into the air—several feet higher than my best diving-board jump—and lands on the tips of her toes.

Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010

Sometimes his daughter, a pretty young woman who lived not far away, would come and visit, sitting with him on the park bench in the shade at the diving-board end of the pool.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

Sometimes his daughter, a pretty young woman who lived not far away, would come and visit, sitting with him on the park bench in the shade at the diving-board end of the pool.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

Sometimes his daughter, a pretty young woman who lived not far away, would come and visit, sitting with him on the park bench in the shade at the diving-board end of the pool.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

Sometimes his daughter, a pretty young woman who lived not far away, would come and visit, sitting with him on the park bench in the shade at the diving-board end of the pool.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

Not so long ago, when these lessons had commenced, MacMurrough made no doubt the boy would be jumping ten feet from the water and banging his head on the diving-board, if his rear were so much as admitted to, let alone spoken of or, God help us, touched.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Not so long ago, when these lessons had commenced, MacMurrough made no doubt the boy would be jumping ten feet from the water and banging his head on the diving-board, if his rear were so much as admitted to, let alone spoken of or, God help us, touched.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

To his left as he looked seawards, a hump of rock jutted out like a great nose at the level of the lower terrace, dividing the beach from a little beach beyond; along its sharp ridge, a narrow path had been worn by the bathers running out to a diving-board which had been built into it, twenty feet above sea level, at its tip.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

In the sea and on the diving-board, she was frankly the admiration of all; she accepted it modestly but in this moment of trifling supremacy, she had lost her air of shrinking evasiveness, of resolute discontent: her face and figure were suddenly boldly handsome, outlined in the close severity of tight black cap and tight, well-fitted black satiny bathing-dress.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955