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Life´-pre`serv`er (līf´prė`zẽrv`ẽr)
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Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver --an inflated bag of wind --which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom. A villain came in through the window and struck me with a life-preserver. I gasped with the anguish and shock of it, filling my lungs before the life-preserver popped me to the surface. |
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