buoy

• It was as though the waves had tried to intimidate them, and had been bidden defiance The weight of the two persons in the buoy was almost too much. —  The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast
• He had caught the life-buoy, and having managed to get it under his arms had floated about for the greater part of an hour. —  The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
• There she found her child already in the life-buoy, and was instantly lifted in beside it by her husband, who looked hastily round Come here, Dick," he said to a little cabin-boy who clung to a stanchion near by. —  Charlie to the Rescue
• Three of the crew were safely landed in the breeches buoy, after communication had been effected by means of the rocket apparatus, but one man, who had taken refuge in the crosstrees, was unable from exhaustion to avail himself of the means afforded. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• Then the cable was unfastened from the buoy, the swift vessel began to glide along with the tide, which was running fast, and the Captain went up on the bridge, along with his chief officer. —  The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor

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