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Sentences starting with salt

Salt Lake City was healthy--an extremely healthy city. [5]
Salt added to snow increases the evaporation and the cold. [4]
Salt crystals glitter in the sun about the shores of the lake. [5]
Salt River would be made navigable; Florida would become a metropolis. [5]

Sentences ending with salt

On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt. [2]
The long table was divided into upper and lower messes by a huge salt-cellar; and the consequence of the guests was marked by their seats above or below the salt. [4]
If you were to set these excellently dressed crayfish before a fine horse he would disdain them, and could not understand how foolish men could find anything palatable that tasted so salt. [10]
Kutuzov's adjutant whispered to Prince Andrew that this was the wife of the priest whose home it was, and that she intended to offer his Serene Highness bread and salt. [2]
In one of these were some good dates, in another gleamed some white meal, a third was half full of sesame-oil, and a fourth held some salt. [10]
Should he once more go to the steward with a request for bread and salt? [10]
My face smarted for a couple of hours, but it was partly because I got it badly sun-burned while I was bathing, and staid in so long that it became plastered over with salt. [5]
The Trinity--the three elements of matter--are sulphur, mercury, and salt. [2]
I asked: "What do you pay a pound for salt? [5]

Sentences containing salt two or more times

We found a pond of salt water close by and scraped up a raft of salt around the edges, and loaded up the lion's skin and the tiger's so as they would keep till Jim could tan them. [5]
Then it ate a quantity of butter, pepper, salt, and California matches, actually taking a spoonful of butter, a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of pepper, and three or four lucifer matches at each mouthful. [5]

More example sentences with the word salt in them

There was nothing wrong or unseemly in what they said, it was witty and might have been funny, but it lacked just that something which is the salt of mirth, and they were not even aware that such a thing existed. [2]
The southwest wind, with a whiff of the channel salt in it, blew the curtains at our backs. [9]
There were reasons why sugar, salt, cotton, cattle and other things had not done well. [11]
She did not weep passionately, but the big salt drops welled slowly from her eyes and ran down her young cheeks, as drop after drop of shining sap flows down the trunk of a wounded birch-tree. [10]
In later years we need it only as salt, as spice, as stimulating wine. [10]
Because the salt waves now flow over him? [10]
To-day its sacred waters are still sweet, but soon it will taste as salt as the north sea with all the tears that have been shed on its banks. [10]
Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
The house was very clean, and the tidy landlady gave us as good a dinner as she could of the inevitable green tea, toast, and salt fish. [4]
These latter pick up all the discarded days and add them to the world's stock again; and about as good as new, too; for of course the salt water preserves them. [5]
Well, I am truly glad to foregather with you again, and partake of the bread and salt of this hospitable house once more. [5]
A great emigrant train from Missouri and Arkansas passed through Salt Lake City and a few disaffected Mormons joined it for the sake of the strong protection it afforded for their escape. [5]
Since the war, too, particularly, our lads seem to think they are 'the salt of the earth' and the legitimate lords of creation. [4]
But it bore, too, a savor that was new to me,--a salt savor, deep and fresh, that I drew down into my lungs. [9]
The distinction extended to the fare, for wine frequently circulated only above the salt, and below it the food was of coarser quality. [4]
As we rode through the bottom under the pecan trees we talked of Polly Ann, Tom and I, and of our little home by the Salt River far to the southward, where we would live in peace when the campaign was over. [9]
When Psamtik passed they were just being fed; cakes soaked in milk, salt and clover-blossoms were placed in golden cribs for the cows, and small birds of many-colored plumage in the beautifully-wrought and ornamented cage of the sparrow-hawk. [10]
You know, when they sink a well," he went on to the company, "they can't always most generally sometimes tell whether they're goin' to get gas or oil or salt water. [8]
I know where there's clumps of wild radishes, and with a little salt they're good--the best. [11]
Ephraim followed him there, and the damp, salt sea-air refreshed him and cooled his brow. [10]
I dropped in there while Marco, the son of Marco, was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold piece. [5]
It may cool their hot blood, and perhaps dilute the salt of their wit.--Show them in, Theocritus. [10]
He had absorbed the salt of tears and valour. [11]
It was at the Salt Lake House the morning after we arrived. [5]
It has all the pleasantness of a fresh-water lake, with all the advantages of a salt one. [4]
I approached England the next morning, with the wide highway of salt water all to myself. [5]
At eight in the morning we reached the remnant and ruin of what had been the important military station of "Camp Floyd," some forty-five or fifty miles from Salt Lake City. [5]
Big Tom refused the chicken he had provided for us, and strengthened himself with slices of raw salt pork, which he cut from a hunk with his clasp-knife. [4]
Edward picked up the Banner and pretended to read it, while Janet collected the salt and put it back into the shaker. [9]
The Head of the Apollinean Institute delivered himself of these judicious sentiments in that peculiar acid, penetrating tone, thickened with a nasal twang, which not rarely becomes hereditary after three or four generations raised upon east winds, salt fish, and large, white-bellied, pickled cucumbers. [6]
At four in the afternoon we arrived on the summit of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world was glorified with the setting sun, and the most stupendous panorama of mountain peaks yet encountered burst on our sight. [5]
It is fortunate that you are here, for they must see you, and it would have been hard for me to fetch the other things: the salt, the Indian pepper, and the jug of Pelusinian zythus, which Satabus is always so fond of drinking. [10]
What is it that makes common salt crystallize in the form of cubes, and saltpetre in the shape of six-sided prisms? [3]
An' she ended that letter by sayin' she would soon leave Salt Lake City with the man she had come to love, en' would never be heard of again. [13]
When she learns that he, the son of Caesar, has given his young heart to the cast-off wife of a street orator, a woman whose home attracted men as ripe dates lure birds, it will be--I know--like rubbing salt into her fresh wounds. [10]
She only knew that an architect from Rome had taken up his quarters at Lochias, for, some time after midnight, she had been to get out meat and salt for him, but in what rooms the strangers had been lodged no one had told her. [10]
Here, beside the tender greens of the Ipswich downs was the sparkling cobalt of the sea, and she could almost smell its cool salt breath mingling with the warm odours of hay and the pungent scents of roadside flowers. [9]
We did not tarry long to observe it, but hurried on to the home of the Latter-Day Saints, the stronghold of the prophets, the capital of the only absolute monarch in America--Great Salt Lake City. [5]
But, as the sun shot a burning line across the water, a new salt breeze sprang up and fanned a hope into flame. [9]
In the darkness shot shrieked hither and thither about us like demons, striking everywhere, sometimes sending casks of salt water over the nettings. [9]
Next, the butter--the sham and tasteless butter; no salt in it, and made of goodness knows what. [5]
Ward wrote a second letter, after a siege of illness at Salt Lake City. [5]
We insisted on salt, and at length got the rock variety, which we pounded on the rocks. [4]
There were neither salt spoons nor mustard spoons, the knives the gentlemen were eating with serving in their stead; and, by the aid of nature's forks, the slices of beef and mutton were transferred to the plates of those who desired to eat. [9]
Unexpectedness was the salt of their existence. [11]
None escaped the salt of the air of conflict. [11]
It was from Salt Lake City. [13]
When we reached Salt Lake City on our way home he made a point of calling on Brigham Young, then at the summit of his power. [6]
I left Great Salt Lake a good deal confused as to what state of things existed there--and sometimes even questioning in my own mind whether a state of things existed there at all or not. [5]
Quantities of coarse salt and sulphate of copper were added, from time to time to assist the amalgamation by destroying base metals which coated the gold and silver and would not let it unite with the quicksilver. [5]
At the Green River station we had breakfast--hot biscuits, fresh antelope steaks, and coffee--the only decent meal we tasted between the United States and Great Salt Lake City, and the only one we were ever really thankful for. [5]
Two years the remnant remained there, while Brigham and a small party crossed the country and founded Great Salt Lake City, purposely choosing a land which was outside the ownership and jurisdiction of the hated American nation. [5]
In his "True Relation," Smith gives some account of his exploration of the Pamunkey River, which he sometimes calls the "Youghtamand," upon which, where the water is salt, is the town of Werowocomoco. [4]
We see no reason why it should not have been just the other way, salt in prisms and saltpetre in cubes, or why either should take an exact geometrical outline, any more than coagulating albumen. [3]
There is no presumption against any of this class of substances, any more than against water or salt, provided they are used in fitting combinations, proportions, and forms. [3]
As he lay on his back in that room among the chimney tops trying vainly to solve the problem of how he was to earn his salt in the country, a visitor was climbing the last steep flight of stairs. [9]
They sweep round on foraying excursions, ride the salt waves in ships, and know no loved and fixed home; they settle down wherever they are tempted by rapine, and when there is nothing more to be got they build a house in another spot. [10]
On the morning of the sixteenth day out from St. Joseph we arrived at the entrance of Rocky Canyon, two hundred and fifty miles from Salt Lake. [5]
And other wonders of that strange land I saw then for the first time: great licks, trampled down for acres by the wild herds, where the salt water oozes out of the hoofprints. [9]
At the end of our two days' sojourn, we left Great Salt Lake City hearty and well fed and happy--physically superb but not so very much wiser, as regards the "Mormon question," than we were when we arrived, perhaps. [5]
A large party of Mormons, painted and tricked out as Indians, overtook the train of emigrant wagons some three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, and made an attack. [5]
The salt held not the bird for the net of thy anger, Nuncio; so it is meet that other ways be found. [11]
The ham-rags are not quite all gone yet, and the boot-legs, we find, are very palatable after we get the salt out of them. [5]
We had found no bread since we left Virginia; we had seen cornmeal and water, slack-baked; we had seen potatoes fried in grease, and bacon incrusted with salt (all thirst-provokers), but nothing to drink stronger than buttermilk. [4]
For the past nine years, I have rowed about, during a good part of the summer, on fresh or salt water. [6]
Harry informed his new friend that he was going out with the engineer corps of the Salt Lick Pacific Extension, but that wasn't his real business. [5]
She had no need to salt it; the tears that fell on it did that. [10]
In the vast multitude of prescriptions contained in the manuscripts, most of them written in symbols, I find one which I thus interpret: "Four grains of (diaphoretic) antimony, with twenty grains of nitre, with a little salt of tin, making rubila. [3]
We do not mind it so much in Salt Lake, however. [5]
The jar was marked with the name of a mineral salt, of a nature to have been serviceable in case of sudden illness in the time of the Borgias. [6]
Now a good map--" "Is it peradventure that manner of thing which of late the unbelievers have brought from over the great seas, which, being boiled in oil, and an onion and salt added thereto, doth--" "What, a map? [5]
At Salt Lake later telegrams told him of the acquittal, and his gratitude was boundless--so boundless, indeed, that sleep was driven from his eyes by the pleasurable excitement almost as effectually as preceding weeks of anxiety had done it. [5]
O noble lady, kindness looks out of your eyes; cease to rub salt into my wounds! [10]
Long Branch and its adjuncts were planned for New York excursionists who are content with the ocean and the salt air, and do not care much for the picturesque. [4]
But by-and-by, if it is to have special complex principles as a part of its organization, they must be supplied by the soil;--your pears will crack, if the root of the tree gets no iron,--your asparagus-bed wants salt as much as you do. [6]
No man who is worth his salt ever gives up. [9]
The Bras d'Or is the most beautiful salt-water lake I have ever seen, and more beautiful than we had imagined a body of salt water could be. [4]
Then salt water is poured into the vessel containing the dissolved silver and the silver returns to palpable form again and sinks to the bottom. [5]
Salt, in fact, is not suited to all creatures! [10]
Where'er the ocean inlet strays, The salt sea wave its source betrays, Where'er the queen of summer blows, She tells the zephyr, "I'm the rose! [6]
The stone chamber in which the bodies were opened, and the halls in which they were prepared with salt, had adjoining them a variety of laboratories and depositaries for drugs and preparations of every description. [10]
I took what I wanted, every man worth his salt does. [9]
If flag horfocers I roots of is booted haside to rankle like a lump o' salt butter in a gallipot, 'ow will a poor Scotch lieutenant win hadvancement an' he be not o' the King's friends? [9]
Two years before I knew the Admiral, he had retired from the sea on a competence, and had sworn a colossal nine-jointed oath that he would "never go within smelling distance of the salt water again as long as he lived. [5]
At the Admiralty I am a master workman on full pay, but I'm not earning my salt here. [11]
Mitigate your worst hunger with some bread and salt, and then my mother's cabbage-stew will not only satisfy you, but will be enjoyed with calm appreciation. [10]
And I know how the salt water smells--which is as much, perhaps, as I have the right to hope for. [9]
When I knew him on board the Ajax, he was seventy-two years old and had plowed the salt water sixty-one of them. [5]
For years he had done no good for himself, trying his hand at many things--sugar, salt, cotton, cattle, but always just failing to succeed, though he came out of his enterprises owing no one. [11]
There is a good deal that is interesting going on in this world, and I like to be in it; but the best plan for a man who has anything is, as Uncle Jerry says, to sail close and salt down. [4]
What delight it gave him that the eternal wanderers above were no longer soulless forms, that he again saw in the pure silver disk above friendly Selene, in the rolling salt waves the kingdom of Poseidon! [10]
The next morning found miles and miles of grassy avenues spread thick with snowy salt and sugar, and a procession of those quaint sleighs waiting to receive the chief concubine of the gaiest and most unprincipled court that France has ever seen! [5]
As he drifted down the turbid current, between the low and marshy shores, the brackish water changed to brine, and the breeze grew fresh with the salt breath of the sea. [5]
In those blissful days she was content to sit by the hour watching him as, bareheaded in the damp salt breeze, he sailed the great schooner and gave sharp orders to the crew. [9]
That meant, of course, that he should be served first, and then that those below the salt should get a share. [11]
As the night closed in we took sanctuary in the Salt Lake House and unpacked our baggage. [5]
Great Salt Lake City throve finely, and so did Utah. [5]
There are little centres in the heart of great cities, just as there are small fresh-water ponds in great islands with the salt sea roaring all round them, and bays and creeks penetrating them as briny as the ocean itself. [6]
When next consciousness came, the tarry, salt smell of a ship was in my nostrils, and I knew that we were embarked. [9]
Through the wood came the salt savour of the sea on the cool sunset air. [11]

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