"Saltiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... N. pungency, piquance, piquancy, poignancy haut-gout, strong taste, twang, race. sharpness &c adj.; acrimony; roughness &c (sour) 392; unsavoriness &c 395. mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning &c (condiment) 393; niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) 392.1; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac^, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) 401.1. dram, cordial, nip. nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar^; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid^, negro head, old soldier, rappee^, stogy^. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... canon continues, until it joins the channel of the Indian village. Following a distance of three leagues in an east-northeast direction, it enters another bay[78] with a depth of thirteen brazas, diminishing to four where some rivers[79] empty and take the saltiness of the water which there becomes sweet, the same as in a lake. The rivers come, one from the east-northeast (this is the largest, about two hundred and fifty yards wide), the other, which has many branches, comes from the northeast through tulares and swamps in very low land, the channels ...
— The March of Portola • Zoeth S. Eldredge
... it, and then found how unsalty it was, for the thing you depended on it to preserve, had gone bad. The great need is for salty salt. There still seems to be a great lot of this saltless salt in use. It's labelled salt, and so it's used as salt, but it befools you. The saltiness has been lost out, and the man using it wakes up to find out how great is the loss, loss of what he thought he had salted, and loss of time, character and time, the character of that salted with saltless ...
— Quiet Talks on Following the Christ • S. D. Gordon
... used it and depended on it, and then found how unsalty it was, for the thing you depended on it to preserve, had gone bad. The great need is for salty salt. There still seems to be a great lot of this saltless salt in use. It's labelled salt, and so it's used as salt, but it befools you. The saltiness has been lost out, and the man using it wakes up to find out how great is the loss, loss of what he thought he had salted, and loss of time, character and time, the character of that salted with saltless ...
— Quiet Talks on Following the Christ • S. D. Gordon
... mile that singular chase continued through the night. With every revolution of the screw, the banks to right and left seemed to recede, as the Thames grew wider and wider. A faint saltiness was perceptible in the air; and Stringer, moistening his dry lips, noted the ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer |
