life-buoy

• “Mrs. Duncan," was Duncan's reply, as he tore the life-buoy from its hook and flung it aft.”

  Bunches of Knuckles

• “Mapuhi and his wife survive amid the broken bodies littering the island but his mother Nauri is missing, swept away, forming a life-buoy out of floating cocoanuts and drifting to a tiny island fifteen miles from Hikueru where she is tormented by the corpses washing ashore.”

  “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .”

• “If there is a man overboard, he must have my life-buoy; but that does not make the whole ship common property.”

  The Catholic Doctrine of Property Part One

• “If to save a life we want instantly a loaf, or brandy, or a life-buoy, then it does not matter whose loaf or brandy or life-buoy it is that is at hand; it must be used.”

  The Catholic Doctrine of Property Part One

• “When your life has been saved, you return the life-buoy and pay for the brandy.”

  The Catholic Doctrine of Property Part One

• “I caught hold of a life-buoy which was near me — a gentleman clutched it from me, for fright makes some men selfish — and, breathless, I was thrown down into the gurgling water.”

  The Englishwoman in America

• “A cry for the life-buoy passed from mouth to mouth.”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated by reason of its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side.”

  Moby Dick; or the Whale

• ““A life-buoy of a coffin!” cried Starbuck, starting.”

  Moby Dick; or the Whale

• “His topper come up aisy like, as though 'twas a life-buoy if I may say soo, and unnerneath it come the fur boa, and then the guv'nor.”

  Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"

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