life-belt

Kai asked as he placed the life-belt for the heavy-worlder by the seismimic.

Cattle Town 2010

Meg-I'm just glad the "life-belt" isn't made of brass and iron!

Not Just Curiosities for a Museum Meg 2008

His knowledge of womankind supported him like a life-belt, but it has been said that life-belts occasionally support their wearers upside down.

Red Pottage 2004

He appeared in her presence with his hair hastily wetted and smoothed by hand, breathless, and clinging to his hat brim as though it was a life-belt, and he stumbled at the carpet edge out of sheer distress of mind.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

It is not good policy to start by telling them to throw away the life-belt.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

He said later that it didn't fill him with confidence to see his navigating officer, myself, busy blowing up his life-belt at the time.

Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic 1993

Now they were pointing at him, and someone was preparing to throw a life-belt.

The Songs of Distant Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1986

Both sailor and child entered the waves, and the stowaway was kept afloat by the life-belt, and safely carried ashore.

The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

Looking across the wild water that lay between him and the shore, the captain muttered, "I can swim as far as that," and then unfastening the life-belt which he wore, he fixed it on the stowaway.

The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

Then returning to his sinking ship, he threw off the life-belt and went down to his death.

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain