When the ship gave every indication that it would sink within a few minutes, the steward said, Mr. Vanderbilt took off his lifebelt and gave it to a woman who passed him on the deck, trembling with fear of the fate she expected to meet.
However, I had my lifebelt around me, and managed to rise again to the surface.
He said: This steward told me he had seen Mr. Vanderbilt on the Lusitania's deck, shortly after the ship was struck, with a lifebelt about his body.
I remember observing it particularly while tying on a lifebeltfor a man on the deck.
They say he has smuggled an extra lifebelt into his cabin, and spends half his time being seasick and the other half looking out for submarines.
What with boat drill three times a day, and lifebelt parade going on all the time on the deck, one doesn't get a chance to forget that we are liable to get a torpedo in our side at any moment.
I heard the second shot from my stateroom, but before I had adjusted my lifebelt the gun fired at the submarine once more.
For just as Latin classical literature was stimulated by the Greek, so also was Anglo-Saxon literature assisted by the influence of the Latin.
It was rather the scholastic language of the Roman aristocracy.
As he fell his lifebelt caught on something, and was torn off, and before the boatmen could lay hold of him he was swept out of their sight for ever.
Watching his opportunity he tried again, and without either lifebelt or line plunged into the sea and swam to the boat.
He managed to slip the lifebelt over her head, and kept her up with one arm while he kept afloat with the other.
With a cry of terror, he tore a lifebelt from its fastenings and threw himself after her.
Without a word he stepped past her into the cabin, and snatching the cork lifebelt stowed above her bed buckled it around her.
But thelifebelt will keep me up, and I can get the same amount of support you are having.
Then he reached for the cork lifebelt usually stowed above his bunk.
A slight recovery on the part of the stricken West Barbican enabled Peter and the skipper to gain the weather bridge rail, the former securing a lifebelt from the chest by the side of the chartroom.
However, I had my lifebelt around me and I managed to rise again to the surface.
I hurried toward my cabin below for a lifebelt and turned back because of the difficulty in keeping upright.
Keep the lifebelt on and get your arms through the belt I have tied on to the table, so.
Let's go and see," replied Ellerton, buckling on a lifebelt and picking up a lantern.
He at once proceeded to fasten a lifebelt round Ellerton's practically helpless form, and then did a like service to Quexo.
Then, cutting his bonds, he completed his work of mercy by lashing the sole remaining lifebeltround the body of his would-be murderer.
While Phillips was sending this message Bride strapped a lifebelt about him and put on his overcoat.
He remembered that there was a lifebelt for every member of the crew and that his own was under his bunk; and he went and put it on.
I don't know what it was I got hold of, but I remembered in a flash the way Phillips had clung on; how I had to fix that lifebelt in place, because he was too busy to do it.
Phillips was too busy to notice what the man was doing, but he was slipping the lifebelt off Phillips's back.
All right," cried the doctor, rushing from the room and leaving his lifebelt behind him.
A gentleman, they say, Miss, who had wrapped you in a blanket and put a lifebelt on you.
Then in an instant he was carried into a hell of waters where, had it not been for his lifebelt and the plank, he must have been beaten down and have perished.
Then, seeing the second lifebelt on the floor, by an afterthought he put it on, knowing that there was time to spare.
I never read a case in which a woman is concerned without thinking of those beautiful lines of yours: 'A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifebelt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
