He is holding alifebeltso as to frame her rosy face.
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I suspect that neither of those lifebelts will keep them afloat.
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All seagoing naval personnel are supplied with a personal issue of an inflatablelifebelt.
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No one would choose alifebeltas an ideal means of conveyance across a stormy sea.
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I do not want to take the lifeboats or the lifebelts out of these steamers.
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It is suggested that sometimes these lifebelts are tampered with and rendered ineffective.
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This could be a form oflifebeltfor non-productive farmers, who could avoid having to engage in agricultural production and yet receive area payments.
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We would not need lifebelts with false trade marks.
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There were the customary tests of the lifebelts which all looked very nice, clean and new.
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Furthermore, all the lifebelts will have to be fitted with radar-reflective tapes.
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We had a long peroration about the drought—no doubt thelifebeltto which he will cling during the coming months as inflation mounts.
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He must know that in this context an offer of help from me is like an offer of a concretelifebelt.
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When a person falls overboard nobody asks whether a corklifebeltor a rubber belt is the best to save his life.
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What about equipment which will be standard fittings as part of the boats—oars, rescue ropes, lifebelts and things of that kind?
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She was further supplied with a large number of lifebelts, and two life rafts each capable of supporting fifty men.
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