life-lines

He took off the light sails, shortened right down to storm canvas, spread life-lines, and waited for the wind.

THE HEATHEN 2010

Outrigger and a many-times medallist in long-distance swimming, had missed seeing the Bartons take the water, and first glimpsed them beyond the last festoon of bathers clinging to the life-lines.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

So evident is it that a laden ship when in big seas is like a log awash, that fore and aft, on both sides, along the deck, shoulder-high, life-lines have been rigged.

CHAPTER XXXI 2010

There was not a mast, spar, rope, or inch of the deck visible, and the life-lines were so coated with ice that it was about as much as one could do to get an arm over them.

Fury and Terror On the High Seas Geoffrey Wolff 2011

But perhaps tourism is to Scotland what the railroads once were - economic life-lines.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

In the restaurant at Casa Isabel, a boutique hotel here in the hills overlooking Puerto Vallarta, I was happily reading the life-lines in some people's palms the other day.

Time & money well spent: A Huichol healing ceremony & the beach at Yelapa 2009

It was all in good fun and no one, least of all perhaps the drafters and proponents of the Constitution in question had the slightest notion, not to say intent, of tampering with the cultural life-lines of the Roman Catholic Church.

11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003

He gives this car a ticket OK? thus keeping open the city's life-lines, and letting the ambulance with the little girl in a coma get to hospital, right?

Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991

As I'd expected, they were wearing not my self-contained apparatus, but regular helmet and corselet diving gear, with air-lines and life-lines, the lifelines almost certainly with telephone wires imbedded inside them.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

My hands touched cables, life-lines and finally an unmistakable wire hawser.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966