Though my diver's dress was thick enough to defend me from the bite of this animal, I could not help shuddering with horror.
But instead I felt an insurmountable desire to sleep, which happens to all divers. And my eyes soon closed behind the thick glasses, and I fell into a heavy slumber, which the movement alone had prevented before.
Down plunged the diver, and soon rose dripping from the water, holding the sea shrub in his hand.
They were accompanied by some Indians, who were skilful divers, and could go down a great way into the depths of the sea.
"Well, old Michel," replied Barbicane, "you would not have made a feigned monster long, for in spite of your
diver's dress, swollen by the expansion of air within you, you would have burst like a shell, or rather like a balloon which has risen too high.
He seeks after simplicity and its effects as a
diver seeks for sunken gold.
The Master Gunner readily condescended and
divers others.
About this time there arrived in our town one Vicente de la Roca, the son of a poor peasant of the same town, the said Vicente having returned from service as a soldier in Italy and
divers other parts.
Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved of his dependences, by his counsel, except where there hath been, either an over-greatness in one counsellor, or an over-strict combination in
divers; which are things soon found, and holpen.
Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on
divers occasions, and by
divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
But, as before hinted, for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of
divers odds and ends of things, both large and small.
Certainly I knew
divers ladies who would make the purchases for me, but first I must explain, and, rather than explain it has ever been my custom to do without.