life-line

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A sailor was taking down the life-line that stretched from the forecastle, past the hatches and cargo-winches, to the bridge-deck ladder.

THE SEA FARMER 2010
I know how difficult it was for me to drop that life-line when I did it last month so I can understand how difficult it might have been for you.

» Work at Home Mom Strocel.com 2009
It looked like her father was intent on severing that life-line.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
A computer, a cell phone charger, my calendar, some life-line to my job.

Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011
It looked like her father was intent on severing that life-line.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
It looked like her father was intent on severing that life-line.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
They want to scare her with the “death panel” lies, rob her blind and then cut off their life-line.

Think Progress » Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare 2010
- Vlado needed a life-line, and I became it, quickly.

Carla Seaquist: Self-Criticism: A New Habit of Mind Carla Seaquist 2011
It looked like her father was intent on severing that life-line.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
It was that innocent, the ball of his thumb on the inside of her elbow, that long life-line that leaps the pulsing vein.

Gloss Cooper Renner 2011