life float

American  

noun

1. a ring-shaped float of balsa wood or metal tubing, having a grating or network at the center, for rescuing a number of survivors from a foundered vessel.

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Example Sentences

On the stream of life float the bodies of the careless and the intemperate as the carcases of the dead on the waves of the Lake of Sacrifices.

From The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason by Le Queux, William

As age and solitude overtake us, the realities of life float away and we become more and more sensible to the mystery which surrounds us.

From Esther Waters by Moore, George (George Augustus)

The tide is setting toward life; float gently on with it.

From His Sombre Rivals by Roe, Edward Payson

Dream-pictures of life float before him, tender and luminous, filled with a vague, soft atmosphere in which the simplest outlines gain a strange significance.

From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry