I gasped with the anguish and shock of it, filling my lungs before the life-preserver popped me to the surface. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My next memory involves being at the bottom of a Costa Rican river wondering which direction was up and holding my breath while I waited for my life-preserver to sort things out—which it did. ❋ Scott Adams (2011)
I met that aged sailorman glad-eyed and beaming, with all the simulated relief at deliverance that a drowning man would display on finding a life-preserver in his last despairing clutch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Americans are drowning, and republicans quibble about what color life-preserver we should toss them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But when I gave him every particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After that we tried going out on the lake in the paddleboats they have at the zoo, but it was just too hot, particularly with the life-preserver around our necks. ❋ Lyda222 (2007)
It grabbed onto his as if it was a life-preserver. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Their list of humor enhancements comes off as a good life-preserver for a bi-polar manic-depressive sociopath to use as they cling to some shred of a reason for living. ❋ Unknown (2009)
SIMON: But for Maria Gaines, it represents a life-preserver, a job that saved her from drowning in debt. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Rose Kohler wrote about the importance of Jewish education in Religious School Work and stated there are those who feel “religious faith is like a life-preserver in time of trouble, and in times of health and peace is laid quietly on the shelf.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mark Thoma writes, if someone without a life-preserver who is struggling in the water grabs someone who is wearing one, and in the process takes them both down, that doesn't mean that the life-preserver failed to do its job. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Cristobal Huet is both the boat and the life-preserver for the Canadiens. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The financial fear is deep-seated enough by now that even the daring want to see a life-preserver. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I can't say if she's in this for me, and I doubt she is; but I can say she's here, and that I can count on her to throw me a life-preserver if I start to sink. ❋ Robitessin (2008)
But when someone is with you, its easier to spot the lighthouses, or get tossed a life-preserver if you fall off. ❋ Robitessin (2007)
When, ever courteous, he offered to accompany two women home, he was further taken aback when a friend gave him a weighted truncheon, or "life-preserver," so he could crack the heads of anyone who molested them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Does that mean that military service isn't a more practical and less philosophical life-preserver tossed to Canadians growing up in poorer conditions? ❋ Unknown (2006)
A little life-preserver for the wingnut meme that that they’ve been pushing from the time he wrote his NYT piece? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Its as if they grab onto a particular fact and hold it as if it were a life-preserver. ❋ Rogers (2006)
I'd give it all up, just to take a look at those bright blue eyes again- like Life Preservers keeping me [afloat] upon an ocean of [indifference] and [desolution]... ❋ Rudealbeitreasonable (2021)
"[did you] see [the life] preservers on [that chick]?!?" ❋ Tongtatatatong (2010)
