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1
He was leaning over towards a
floating
spar
,
helping in a woman and child.
2
Adrift like a
floating
spar
I was swept away and driven ashore amid the baby-linen.
3
By great good fortune I managed to seize a
floating
spar
,
and, resting on it, called aloud for José.
4
She caught at this belief as an exhausted swimmer might catch at a
floating
spar
,
and rested herself upon it.
5
The axes were again called into requisition, for a blow from the
floating
spar
would have instantly stove in the side.
6
That had been the thing she needed: the
floating
spar
to one who is drowning and it steadied her into instant resistance.
7
Even the lightning failed to illumine the scene just then, or some eager eye might have detected the
floating
spar
and its human burden.
8
Like a shipwrecked mariner clinging to a
floating
spar
,
she scanned the horizon with a despairing eye, and saw only angry and threatening clouds.
9
Was it not possible for the unfortunate men, bleeding and wounded as they were, still to save themselves by clinging to some
floating
spar
?
10
At that critical moment a
floating
spar
of an idea swept my way and I seized upon it as the last hope of the lost.