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He called on me, borrowed a little money ... and then began his "divings," his progress through the tribulations, [12] or, as he expressed it, "through the seven

A Reckless Character And Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

To our own, perhaps unphilosophical, taste the aspirations towards sentimental perfection of another popular author are infinitely preferable to these sardonic divings after the pearl of truth, whose lustre is eclipsed in the display of the diseased oyster.

The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006

I go sleeps now, secure in the knowledge of the earnings of money for the divings on Sunday, and somewhat recovered from the frozen-ness of mind which afflicted me Monday.

between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006

Dinny never tired of; but today the spring green and brightness of the may and apple blossom, the windings and divings through old villages, could not deflect her attention from the impassive figure by whom she sat.

Flowering Wilderness 2004

Another retiring gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Standing on the shore of their Firth of Froth, so to speak, we watch with considerable interest the unique soarings and divings of "Our Own."

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 Various

Mr. Evan was more a man of deeds than words, therefore he disappeared at once with a mighty splash, and after repeated divings and much laughter appeared bearing the chief ornament of Mr.. Penelope Carroll's comely countenance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

I should paint also my mother's mingled annoyance and relief, vexation that I favoured the Liberals, and joy that the Countess von Sempach went to Paris; Victoria's absolute bewilderment and ineffectual divings and fishings for anything that might throw light on so mysterious a matter;

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

Kent had been saving the results of his deep-sea divings in the oil-field investigation to spread them out before Miss Van Brock and Ormsby "in committee," but he put a padlock on his lips when he saw the others.

The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

He tired his body with divings, racings, leapings, and shouting.

The Art of Disappearing John Talbot Smith 1889