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old salt
1. shoreline, the cold salt water filling his boots and making him curse
2. People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was exciting for country folk, and there was even a group of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such and saying there was the sort of man that made England great at sea
3. He would not have expected it after his experience on the troop transport that had brought him to Europe, with its cold salt-water showers
4. The general practice is to soak them in cold salted water with the idea of drawing out and killing any insects
5. He was an enigmatic man, a big Old Salt with a wide chest like that of a professional wrestler
6. The spray of stinging cold salty water and hot pepper juice on open sores temporarily chases away the waves of starving, biting, stinging creatures
7. As I came out of the tent a blast of ice-cold salt
8. Nearly yanked me clear overboard, the rascally old salt
9. Conversation flowed in peculiar directions, the old salt being full of tales from his pockmarked career as a fisherman
10. what can we do?” asked the captain, who in his fear, both of the storm and the mutinous looks in his crews eyes, was willing to do anything the grizzled old salt suggested
11. , as well as additional salt from the old salt shaker
12. The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully
13. On more than one occasion, a dozen at the lowest, near the North Bull at Dollymount he had remarked a superannuated old salt, evidently derelict, seated habitually near the not particularly redolent sea on the wall, staring quite obliviously at it and it at him, dreaming of fresh woods and pastures new as someone somewhere sings
14. He was only thirty-three (and just over nine inches taller than his captain), but he had the gift, the knack for convincing even the most grizzled old salt to trust his soul in his chaplain’s hands, and he was one of the most skilled and compassionate healers Ahbaht had ever encountered
15. Frequently these Ships had Gunports painted on their Sides to give the false Appearance of great Force of Arms, but an old Salt, canny with a Spying-Glass, could tell the Diff’rence betwixt these painted Gunports and the real Things
16. It was now nearly the hour of high tide, but the waves were so great that in their troughs the shallows of the shore were almost visible, and the schooner, with all sails set, was rushing with such speed that, in the words of one old salt, "she must fetch up somewhere, if it was only in hell"
17. And then Shapeshade watching just before dawn as Constance Rattigan, so the rumors said, ran naked to leap into the cold salt waves and rise with healthfood seaweeds in her straight white teeth and regally braiding her hair, while Shape-shade limped home in the rising sun, drunk on remembrance, mumming and humming the drones of the mighty Wurlitzer in his marrow, soul, heart, and happy mouth
18. Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood
19. Far birds’ cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood
