life-boat

F.R.S., of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, who invented the life-boat.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

We believe that Obama's promise of change has become a life-boat for many of us who are just so sick and tired of the same-old, same-old that we are desperately seeking a way out of the fiscal, environmental and political miasma that envelops America today.

"Get Us Out of Here!" 2008

I think there is definitely an issue when you get to truly “hard cases,” like life-boat scenarios.

Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition) 2008

Let these rough fellows be asked, in any storm, who volunteers for the life-boat to save some perishing souls, as poor and empty-handed as themselves, whose lives the perfection of human reason does not rate at the value of a farthing each; and that boat will be manned, as surely and as cheerfully, as if a thousand pounds were told down on the weather-beaten pier.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Sitting on the stanchion of this life-boat I look seaward and let my hair blow and shine.

Tender is the Night 2003

But what I do plead for, earnestly and sincerely, is that the Royal Humane Society will remember our captain and our life-boat crew, and in so remembering them increase the high honor and esteem in which the society is held all over the civilized world.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

No, the “Louisa Bretton” never was out of harbour on such a night, and in such a scene: her crew could not conceive it; so the half-drowned life-boat man keeps his own counsel, and spins no yarns.

Villette 2003

W Heath regarding the so-called ABSA life-boat, Cabinet wishes to make it clear that the decision was that of the Unit and not

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

I was not yet 10 years old when we were told of the potential danger and were given life jackets and life-boat practice and were told to keep the boat in darkness -- the blinds drawn.

Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic 1993

Search-and-rescue variant; fitted with large droppable life-boat; all weapons deleted; 16 converted.

Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990