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An 'willows and trees of all kinds growing along the edges, and here a riffle where you can flip out trout, and there a deep pool where you can swim and high-dive.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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The keeper catches up just in time to see the walrus infiltrate a diving team and perform a somersaulting high-dive which little children will enjoy tracing with their fingers.
A Walrus, a Bear, A Cat, Oh My! Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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But hopefully that'll change once they find out that being in the pool is better than watching everyone else swimming around, splashing each other, and doing cannon balls off the high-dive.
McCain's Straight-Talk Express takes a turn in the blogosphere All, David 2007
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The reallyreallyreallyreally tall high-dive there -- the one which is visibly taller than the sun?
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005
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Oh, and I know it looks like my left eye is being bathed in Pepto Bismol, but that's just left-over burst blood vessels from the Plunge of Idiocy off of the Baghdad Hilton's high-dive.
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005
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Dennis the diver lands in Tunica because he's talked the manager of the casino into engaging his high-dive act as a customer attraction.
Cops and Robbers Atwood, Margaret 2002
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Beyond were acres of flawless lawn, a swimming pool with a high-dive board, and a croquet green, where white-clad youths were screaming epithets and swinging mallets at each other.
The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994
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"Pipe it down to the lab, Spock," he ordered, gazing at the high-dive board which was still slightly vibrating from his first—and apparently last—plunge of the day.
Killing Time Della Van Hise 1990
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Needless to say, the Bridge was eventually built with wire deflector-cables along the outer lanes, and as far as Rajasinghe knew no-one had yet taken a high-dive into the Mediterranean.
The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979
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"Can you aviate – high-dive – drive a car – buck-jump – shoot?" read Miss Moss.
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