A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
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Any positive reaction by global markets would almost certainly buoy the Gulf.
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However, with so much bad news forecast, any positive may buoy investors.
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When I had the sails set we were passing the sea buoy.
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With the sunrise the search for the buoy was begun in earnest.
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Marks: Run 5 miles SW. from the whistling buoy off Cape Elizabeth.
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This critical lifesaver for families is coming not a minute too soon.
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And they had to reach for the only answer, their only lifesaver.
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Central to the entire Dr Dolittle project was the Aga, the lifesaver.
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Another lazy girl lifesaver that runs out too fast in my house.
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Alves reached for his ankle, praying that his lifesaver was still there.
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Oeberg said he survived after finding a lifebuoy floating in the water.
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Away went the captain, and in a few minutes back came the lifebuoy.
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Then lifebuoy posts at drunken angles, newly bereft of their rings.
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Then the stout Coastguardsman absolutely lifted him into the lifebuoy.
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The lifebuoy was thrown, and, looking astern, I saw the man had caught it.
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It has been hailed by the publishing industry as a potential life-saver.
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The volunteer life-saver was cheered by the passengers as he went over.
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There is to be a wreck here; is there to be a life-saver?
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Playcentre says a four-million-dollar government bail-out is a life-saver for the parent-led early childhood organisation.
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An ocean-going merchant-ship: a life-saver to a poorer man.
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She tossed a lifering after him, saw him come up and catch his stroke-asshe tapped the deck with her stick-thethree doubles sharply....
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A life belt is hurled from a great height, falls slowly, slowly.
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Dr. Malone felt like a drowning sailor being thrown a life belt.
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He was supported by a life belt carelessly strapped around him.
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I'm pretty good at it, and we'll have a life belt.
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So picking up the two cats and a life belt, she hurried on deck.
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But her vanity was like a life buoy to her sinking hopes.
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I grabbed Grover and hauled him over to a life buoy.
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He would be her life buoy in a rocky sea.
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He would carry it the entire evening, as if it were a life buoy.
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A bridle was rigged from the spanker boom and made fast to a life buoy.
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How much of a life preserver does your wired lifestyle really need?
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The body, limp and grayish, was suspended under the sodden life preserver.
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They always hope someone'll come along and throw them a life preserver.
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I held the sign in front of me like a life preserver.
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They obediently followed Larry's instructions and strapped on the life preserver vests.
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I ran and got a life ring and threw it at him.
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Rae, there's a life ring on either side of the cockpit.
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A life ring, normally kept at the pier, had been removed by vandals.
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Asbury threw a life ring to starboard and began playing out the rope.
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A fisherman picked up a life ring and a rudder floating off Halibut Point.
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In 2009, the European Union is once again perceived as a lifebelt.
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These ecosystems have been described as the planet's lifebelt, and with good reason.
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Was it really only the name on the lifebelt that made the difference?
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Until the shipwreck comes, no man puts on the lifebelt in his cabin.
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Crawshay appeared, hugging his lifebelt, on which he seated himself gingerly.
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From that moment the Red Un was possessed for the river and a lifebelt.
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Bumptious Brenda and by-the-book Barry seized on this like drowning swimmers grasping a lifebelt.
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Jenkins, the under-groom, gently nudged her and she grabbed his elbow like a lifebelt.
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Last of all-almosttoo late-TomRiley appeared, buckling on his lifebelt as he ran.
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Faith is the true lifebelt that keeps us from being drowned in any stormy sea.
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He was standing with a lifebelt in his hand.
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A drowning surrealist will not appreciate the concrete lifebelt.
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However, I had my lifebelt around me, and managed to rise again to the surface.
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I helped to put a lifebelt on Mr. Frohman.
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Malcolm, take care that every one has a lifebelt.
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Throw her a lifebelt and she'll pull you under.