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Definition of Lifebelts
1. lifebelt [n] - See also: lifebelt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lifebelts
Literary usage of Lifebelts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Well, now take off your lifebelts," was his next order, " and lay them down on
the deck." He seemed to take a greater dislike to some of us than to others, ..."
2. The Quiver: An Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading (1872)
"Some were ready, others stripping for the work, and soon to a man they sat with
their lifebelts girded on, their oars in their hands waiting the signal that ..."
3. The Merchant Seaman in War by Leslie Cope Cornford (1913)
"The commanding officer of the submarine, a fair, bearded man of thirty-five or
so, ordered the seamen to take off their lifebelts and place them on the deck ..."
4. The Way to Victory by Philip Gibbs (1919)
"One of their brigadiers, a VC—he has the Elizabethan touch of character—borrowed
all the lifebelts of a leave boat, and, putting one on himself, ..."
5. Under the Red Crescent: Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish by Charles Snodgrass Ryan, John Sandes (1897)
"They had made ingenious lifebelts for the horses out of the inflated pigskins
which were used as wine casks in the country, and thus equipped each hardy ..."
6. German Submarine Warfare; a Study of Its Methods and Spirit, Including the by Wesley Frost (1918)
"... to take off and throw away their lifebelts. It then proceeded away from the
scene of the attack, covering a distance estimated at some fourteen miles. ..."
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