"Old salt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cold manners, I observed that children were never frightened by him; they divined him at once to be a friend; and one night when he had chalked his hand and clothes, it was incongruous to hear this formidable old salt chuckling over his ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson
... shirt and a tarpaulin hat, and a black cravat tied in sailor fashion carelessly and loosely about my neck. My knowledge of ships and sailor's talk came much to my assistance, for I knew a ship from stem to stern, and from keelson to cross-trees, and could talk sailor like an "old salt." I was well on the way to Havre de Grace before the conductor came into the negro car to collect tickets and examine the papers of his black passengers. This was a critical moment in the drama. My whole ...
— Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass • Frederick Douglass
... old salt, I thought. You thoroughly deserved to cleave through the cold waters of ...
— Seven Icelandic Short Stories • Various
... of the day and pull against the current at night. The moon and the bright auroral lights made this task an agreeable one. Then, too, we had Coggia's comet speeding through the northern heavens, awakening many an odd conjecture in the mind of my old salt. ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop
... said Fred. "You went at it as coolly as any old salt who has done nothing else all his ...
— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport
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