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Updated: June 11, 2025
What does this mean a lifebuoy?" He was silent for a moment. Then he turned suddenly to the Professor. "What did you call those men in the motor-truck, Professor river pirates? And a lifebuoy! Wait." He crossed the room towards his desk and returned with a list in his hand. He ran his finger down it, stopped and glanced at the date.
It's life or death with us all," said the mate in a voice so stern that the crowd of anxious and somewhat surprised females prepared to obey. Presently a ring-shaped lifebuoy, with something like a pair of short breeches dangling from it, came out from the shore, suspended to a block which traversed on the cable, and was hauled out by means of the whip. A seaman was ordered to get into it.
Before the lifebuoy had gained the shore it was plunged into the sea, out of which it no longer rose, the support of the wreck being gone. The men on shore now hauled on the rope with desperate energy, for a few minutes more would be sure to settle the question of life or death.
He noticed resemblances and soon realized the common attributes of fire and the sun; and, as his fetish was not always good to him, the sun and storm seeming to follow their own sweet will in spite of his unspoken faith in the lifebuoy, he again became an apostate, transferring his allegiance to the sun, of which the friendly fire was evidently a part or symbol.
The ship was running under easy sail when I heard a shout of 'Man overboard! The lifebuoy was thrown, and, looking astern, I saw the man had caught it. But it was a raging sea I saw and felt that to try and lower a boat to save the poor wretch must expose the men who manned it to the greatest danger.
Through the surging breakers and over the rugged rocks the lifebuoy was dragged, and a shout of relief arose when the gallant Coastguardsman was seen clinging to it. But he was insensible, and it was with difficulty that they loosened the grip of his powerful hands.
Her crew were, of course, keenly on the alert, and as I came driving down toward them, only visible in consequence of the phosphorescence of the water, they flung me a lifebuoy bent on to the end of a line, and so hauled me aboard.
I knew him when he always said 'Puvis' instead of 'Puvis de Chavannes. He's cured now. If I hadn't happened to know he'd be on board I shouldn't have dared to come. He's my lifebuoy." "But I assure you, Tommy, Mr. Gilman refused the stuff from me. He did." "Oh! Dove! Wood-pigeon! Of course he refused it. He was bound to.
Not a human being could be discovered to whom a rope or lifebuoy might have been thrown; the latter, indeed, would have been useless; for even had a struggling swimmer clung to it, he must ultimately have been driven towards the cruel rocks on which the sea was fiercely beating. But another sight still more fearful was to be witnessed.
Again the engine-room bells clanged, and this time the signal from the bridge was "Stop"; the boat, fully-manned, was lowered with a run, and at the same time one of the sailors at the stern of the yacht slung a lifebuoy overside with such force and accuracy that it hit the water with a splash within ten yards of Don Carlos, who propelled himself towards it, and with its aid succeeded in supporting himself and Tony until the boat reached him and he and Tony were safely hauled aboard.
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