life-jacket

Lock keeper Annie Myers greets me wearing only a T-shirt under her life-jacket, while I am in a jumper and coat.

A working life: the lock keeper Mark King 2010

I dare any reader to do this without staining his or her life-jacket.

Victoria, By Sea Matt Villano 2011

Probably what this exchange illustrates is two drowning men thrashing about in search of a life-jacket.

Is our culture too much in thrall to the past? 2011

I'd be gasping for breath after the first pages of great long sentences, pulling on my life-jacket to avoid drowning in the prose style and thinking, what was all that about.

Henry James 2007

I'd be gasping for breath after the first pages of great long sentences, pulling on my life-jacket to avoid drowning in the prose style and thinking, what was all that about.

44 entries from December 2007 2007

I mean, why are they so generous as to give every passenger a life-jacket for no extra cost?

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

Surely some punters could be persuaded to pay for the comfort* a life-jacket may bring them?

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

I now wear a helmet when I ski and a life-jacket when I sail.

Richardson’s Accident Reignites Ski Helmet Debate - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

"I love Turkey!" added an Iranian British girl on honeymoon, her eyes glowing as she put on an orange life-jacket to head for a kayak.

Karin Luisa: The Turkish Coast in April 2009

I'd be gasping for breath after the first pages of great long sentences, pulling on my life-jacket to avoid drowning in the prose style and thinking, what was all that about.

Henry James 2007