| 单词 | salt |
| 例句 | I took stock of what I had in the cave: a few pounds of cornmeal in a paper bag, some salt, three cans of meat, three of beans, one of peas, two of corn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He could taste the hot, salt breeze on his mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse Helms’s television editorial that evening was salt in the wounds of black North Carolinians. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The dog retreated abruptly, neck hairs bristling, and knocked the salt and pepper shakers off one table. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then they were in darkness in the center of the salt marshes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt water from the sea ruined the crops, and fires razed whole regions of cities and towns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I can smell the ocean and feel the salt air making my clothes cling to my skin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And the sight of me can only be salt in her wound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A dry hot wind glided up and down the canyon restlessly, shaking the salt bushes and sweeping dust over the tire tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z While these discussions go on you are to imagine me bowling along on some little road or pulled up behind a bridge, or cooking a big pot of lima beans and salt pork. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her face into the horse’s warm neck, which smelled of sea salt and apples. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I thought about the little gifts Kazi gives us all the time—pieces of candy under our pillows or a ripe tomato from the garden, sliced, salted, and sprinkled with chili pepper on a plate. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My room fades away, and I’m on that beach surrounded by love and salt air and the fading warmth and lengthening shadows of sunset. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Spilling sugar. Spilling salt is bad luck, but sugar...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Here the smell of bodies and refuse was worse, trapped by the sweating moisture of salt water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And besides, she had her salt and nail to protect herself, if she needed them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z "For a time. Now she wants to be my salt wife." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I hadn't had a freshwater bath in three weeks and was glistening with caked salt like a stick of rock crystal candy. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z For the first time he took in what that small band of redcoats, so close to the salt marsh, was about. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt I wound up with was greasy and tasted so much like chemicals that it actually made me gag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In my head, I spin my octopus funnel to point directly at them and dose them with a generous helping of freezing cold salt water. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z As he turned to walk away, dragging his broom behind him, he mumbled that he guessed the Epsom salts hadn’t worked after all. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too large to be felled by salt concentrate alone, but as it tipped, a dull roar emerged from the gaping black hole beneath it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Deydey’s triumph resulted in a small square of salt pork, a bit of flour, some dried apples, and a bladder of fish oil. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In the new regime, economic power passed to a new class of people: merchants who exchanged salt, chocolate, and cotton from Chichen Itza for a host of goods from elsewhere in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z During a stretch of overcast Paris weather in February 1896, he shut away in a drawer his latest preparation: a uranium salt sprinkled over the wrapped plate, awaiting the sun’s reemergence from behind the clouds. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He got to his feet, walked to the storeroom and tugged open the door, feeling the saliva pour into his mouth as the fragrance of grain and salted fish came out to meet him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But I can still taste her blood mingled with the sea salt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Dallas tries for another minute to make it seem completely catastrophic that I drank an ounce of salt water. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His face, tanned by the salt of the Caribbean, had acquired a metallic hardness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The barrage regulated the inflow of salt water from the backwaters that opened into the Arabian Sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When they are cooked, she pours salt on them so they will not spoil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the salt and pepper shakers on the table in front of him, trying to figure out what to do with the fatherly feeling. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She usually liked her avocado without salt, but it was bland now, almost nauseating. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been in Vermont very long, but I’d been there long enough to know what any Vermonter worth his salt would think of that. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Before Shasta had time even to guess what it was there was a great splash and he found his mouth half full of salt water. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It was one of my favorite breakfasts, and I sprinkled the top with a pinch of salt and pepper, but I couldn’t eat it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s just beef and vegetables, salt and water. And a ham hock.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sea provides all the salt that Qarth requires, but I would gladly take as many olives as you cared to sell me. Olive oil as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We eat our potatoes with plenty of salt and I eat my fat and pretend it’s that nipple of red meat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If he tasted any salt on my face he didn’t say a word. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The air smelled of pines instead of salt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was friendly but practical, and she had lots of cheap things to suggest, like baths with Epsom salts and even feeding the chicken some olive oil. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Rats, shrews, and voles go inside the cave, too, either looking for salt or foraging for food, and these small mammals make trails through the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re fake bumping into each other, not paying much attention to their group leader, who is telling them about the percentage of salt found in ocean water. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “But salty how? How is this sensation of salt different from the pretzel?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He took most of Chronicler’s salt and a pair of bootlaces. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z We bought some rice, some palm oil, salt, and fish; by the time we were done, the market was filling up with people hurriedly trying to buy whatever they could afford. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “All that salt ain’t good for you, you know,” I chided. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Jon has given up his eye- damaging geometrical shapes and is painting pictures that look like commercial illustrations: huge Popsicles, giant salt and pepper shakers, peach halves in syrup, paper dishes overflowing with french fries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She started picking around in the groceries, asking about salt, pepper, and matches. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had even taken a precious packet of salt for flavoring. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Being an old salt himself, he took no offense in rough company. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We added some seasonings, like salt, pepper, and paprika, and mixed it all together. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The boat had been painted dark blue at one point, but the hull was so crusted with tar and salt it looked like one massive nautical bruise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Sefia blinked salt water out of her eyelashes and looked around. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I asked later as I tore the fish bones out of the soaking salted codfish. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And the wind coming over the hills brought the smell of salt with it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z There was a small keg of salted fish in the storeroom; its enticing aroma always filled the place, but Gebu kept it sealed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She picked up the salt shaker and scattered a few grains into the open eggshell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A net woven from long grass that covers the couple during their vows, the touching of each other’s lips with salt water, and the ancient wedding song, which likens marriage to a sea voyage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He knew his desertion would be salt in the still-raw wound of his son's disgrace. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even with the salt water mixed in there might be some food value left in the flour and sugar. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She hated cold water, she hated salt water, and she hated bathing suits. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Colder,” she said as they passed the low salt marshes of Georgia, as if the word were a whip driving them north. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After an endless trek through trash- strewn wetlands, we found the salt ponds: rectangular fields of shallow water. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “That was a bull shark. It was trapped in a salt pond on the Cape.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She quickly occupied herself with tossing the chopped cucumber into the pitcher of salted, watered- down yogurt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Just keep washing the sores with salt water and then rinse with the fresh water.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As they walked back from the bus stop she produced a sandwich bag from her pocket, and offered Eliot the peeled wedges of an orange, or lightly salted peanuts, which she had already shelled. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z This overwhelming musk of animal waste and chemicals—almost like the odor of salt water and unwashed bodies. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Grandma told us not to listen to her artichoke of a son and to take those grains of salt and throw them right over our left shoulders to blind the devil. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Each time he passed the mantel he winced, dreading the raised eyebrows of his guests as they viewed the flickering ceramic saints, the salt and pepper shakers designed to resemble Mary and Joseph. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z That night, I dreamed the salt statues came to life and set on our captors with their swords, but every one of the statues had the face of the dead man. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The smell of salt air made me wonder if I would ever see the ocean again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The pig had been caught early before it lost flesh and the leg was a large one and O-lan had salted it thoroughly and hung it to dry. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He wandered about through the salt marshes at the foot of the Common, circling until he came out on Beacon Hill. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt and iron were heavy in her apron pocket, but she didn’t reach for them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They’d brought slabs of hard salt beef, dried cod, dried beans, turnips, carrots, sacks of barley meal and wheaten flour, pickled eggs, barrels of onions and apples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The salt had dried at the corners of her lips and left a residue behind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His hair is the color of salt, his garments entirely black, and a deadly curved sword sits at his hip. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Get the Epsom salts, she says, leaning back into the soft brown chair, her eyes closing. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z "In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls," said Jojen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Papa didn’t need to rub any more salt in Uncle Abdullah’s wounds by reminding him that Usman, who was several years older than me, lagged far behind me in his studies. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The mayor’s mother puts a pot of water on to boil and sprinkles in salt and herbs to clean his wounds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Their wives and daughters had been claimed for salt wives, those who were young enough and fair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She fried the locusts to a deep brown colour, salted them heavily and then served them with the pap. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly beneath them the Great Salt Lake glittered like aluminum foil, the shoreline etched with white salt marshes that reminded Leo of aerial photos of Mars. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His face and chest were charred from the salt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I keep a little packet of salt in a shoebox under my bed, and I pinch a bit onto the potato and keep reading. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After a lunch of milled corn and salted cabbage, the exhausted children, their faces and clothes covered in coal dust, headed back to the coalface, carrying candles in the ink-black mine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She peeled it away and salted the damp, slippery white surface of the egg. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hobb’s sausages were made of grease and salt and things that did not bear thinking about. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Jing is good leftover stuff when you take impurities out of something like gold, or rice, or salt. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When it reached her lips the taste was salt and copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kendra stepped carefully over the salt, pulled back the covers, and climbed into bed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In dry goods, I heave the two-pound bag a salt in the cart, to brine the turkey in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I put a palmful of salt in my pocket, kissed her cheek, then took off out of the back door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Throwing the salt must have worked, because no one asks me anything about my colors until English class. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z They were swollen, faded, eaten by the salt air and the grit of sand, not to mention so many grubby, grabbing fingers. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There were no white salt crystals on the rocks, as I’d expected. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His hands were callused from the work he’d done at the salt factory, and he was afraid the hard labor had made his fingers clumsy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially if she was careful, and always kept her salt and nail handy.... Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The sun was moving down in the sky, but the heat still danced above the salt bushes in the canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She went barefoot, avoiding barnacles, picking her way along the flats with the tide drawn out and the salt chuck grass sleek against the mud in sun-dried fans. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But they couldn’t drop oil or salt, things that would have given the food some taste, so the food had almost no flavor at all. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z All they did not eat fresh was salted down in barrels for the winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But they knew that in a town there were many houses, and a store full of candy and calico and other wonderful things—powder, and shot, and salt, and store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z From these twisted creatures, the Scholars learned to trap the jinn with salt and steel and summer rain still warm from the heavens. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "I don't need to go to your castle. I can stay in some town, and be your salt wife." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I tuck my knife high on my thigh and shake out some of my silver box of salt into my pocket. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Object’s anguished lips met mine, and there was a sweet taste and a taste of salt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the late afternoon Mary took Will and Lyra along the riverbank, past the fishing posts where the nets were tied, and through the wide salt marsh toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That one meal never varied: hot water with a little salt or pepper, and if we were lucky, bits of potato skin and slivers of other vegetables. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She could roast it over mopane coals with a little salt for flavoring. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the cold salt water he had stiffened quickly; his right foot had frozen rigidly over his left, and his arms, locked at the shoulders, were fixed in place with the fingers curled. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z If you feel like it needs a little something, add some salt and/or pepper. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I sprinkled in the soaking salts and brought it back into the bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then I remembered what Papa had said, and I stopped myself from falling into the whiff of salt air and flying off with the seagulls like some dreamy flower girl. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The hard fragrance of the salt river and the marshes filled the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His name, he said, was Adrack Humble, and he had a rock wife and three salt wives back on Great Wyk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We could hear Queenie moaning in the kitchen as she fried salt mackerel, her tears splattering in the hot grease. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not as though it’s terrible. At least we still have some salt in the pantry. Imagine when that runs out.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Pop Pop says the best way to soothe the soreness is to sit in a bath of Epsom salt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Hake handed fen a hollow heel of bread filled with burnt bacon and chunks of salt fish warmed in bacon grease. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He would come back with justice and with salt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The broad sky above and the whole earth laughed to see it, and the salt wave of the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z To make onigiri, you wash your hands and cover your palms with salt. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I felt even my soul had been corroded by salt. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman was indignant, saying, yes, come to think of it, the doctor had said something about Epsom salts. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next thing he knew, he was spitting up salt water, gasping for breath. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “It was just a glimpse. Just for a moment. But I could see it in you. And when you came close, that smell. I knew that smell. It was salt water.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The view slid over reflecting sand and salt water pools until he found the figures hurrying across. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes glistened as the tears rolled down her face in clearly defined salt creeks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He built up the fire and put the frying pan to heat and sliced thick pieces of salt pork into it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That at least was as he remembered; the ancient stones slick with spray and spotted by lichen, the sea foaming under their feet like some great wild beast, the salt wind clutching at their clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They do everything together and are as close as sisters and as opposite as sugar is to salt. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Except for the taste of salt in the water, they felt right at home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I leave the salt and pepper there on the counter, and head back through the kitchen to grab the trash. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z As the transport swung out onto High Street, I heard the tires crunch the salt crystals covering the frozen asphalt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Such things as salt and pepper had been brought. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured salt in his beer, which Dad said some guys did because they liked to make extra foam. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You could salt the cucumbers,” I tell him. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Then follow me, but stay back a bit. We don’t want to both get caught at the same time. Keep salt ready.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z After two meals of this, the cook frowned and sent up half a loaf of salt bread, as instructed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z To induce cream to whip, add a grain of salt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was heavy work, and boring; there was nothing to it but swinging my pickax again and again, breaking off big chunks of salt that another prisoner shoveled into a donkey cart. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When the Egyptians had assembled the next afternoon, bringing their offerings of oil and spice and salt and perfume, Toby—Ramose—gave a little talk on how to prepare a mummy. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if it would be all right for me to try out the bath salts. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I say, praying she doesn’t say another word—I don’t want any attention on me, not right now, not when I can feel my eyes starting to sting from the salt. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The rest we salt, grill, or dry to save. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned back, rubbing both hands over his thinning hair, now salted with gray, and asked me how I had enjoyed my internship. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Oh, David thought—squirming as the salt touched the small cuts and scratches on his sides and arms—it must have been unbelievable. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You children get going. May the good Lord take a liking to you, but not too soon! Here’s a bit of food—oranges and biscuits and a little salt pork.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They watched him weave unsteadily through the salt bush down to the river willows and tamarics, growing along the river, all the while clutching his brown shopping bag close to his chest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A bag of salt was sent for from the kitchen to be mixed into a solution that would be applied to the prisoners' legs and partially shaved head. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I had learned that there are still a few salt ponds at the bottom of San Francisco Bay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Frank asks, sprinkling salt over the yellow muck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This suggested that phosphorus would be a better carrier of therapeutic radiation than radio-sodium, since the latter distributes itself all through the body as salt, attenuating its effect. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She won for her essay titled “Salt: Enhancing Lives One Breath at a Time,” which focused on using salt water to help the breathing of young cystic fibrosis patients. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He took a tentative sniff, as if it might be noxious smelling salts. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I can — that’s what makes me sick. It smells like rust . . . and salt.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It was sodium-24, produced by the bombardment of ordinary rock salt by deuterons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Einar Petersen took a box of salt from his shelf and spread its contents outside the door, but two customers slipped despite this. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A thrall offered them a platter, and she stabbed a salted fish and ate it off the end of her dirk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He tasted like tobacco and salt and the whole experience was very wet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she tried a home remedy: salt water, a double dose of hypertension pills, and a glass of vodka. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They were well provided with salt, Bowen Marsh had told him, but the last of the butter would be gone within a moon’s turn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A groom dipped bandages in ice water laced with Epsom salts and wound them around the left foreleg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinny memorized the feeling of the moment too—the grit of damp sand beneath her scrunched toes, the lapping of the surf, the salt on her lips. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He combed his hair with his fingers and felt the heavy coating of sand and salt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Carry salt with me wherever I go so that I can throw it at her and trap her and question her about my mother? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She was buying a soft pretzel—regular, salted—at Auntie Anne’s. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He tasted his soup and began to season it with pepper, salt, vinegar, mustard— everything within reach. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z We used the money to buy sugar and salt to help flavor our meals. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Squirreled away in them I had string and wax, some dried apple, a tinderbox, a marble in a small leather sack, a pouch of salt, hook-needle and gut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z What if my breath smelled like butter and salt? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, we lived on what remained of our salted fish, roots and leaves, the fruit of the prickly pear, and on the plantains from our tree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked better in clean clothes, though some blood was seeping through at the knee and his hair was still wild with sand and salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It was a little child’s dress of silk brocade stiff with seed-pearls, stained with salt, yellow with years. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “We should expect her to attack us as soon as she’s free. If not, great, but I brought salt, whatever good that will do.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I made a ball of hickory salt with turtle fat to hold it together. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that if she wasn’t up to her elbows in the guts of a newly dead animal, she was in the ocean, looking for live ones—salt and microorganisms flowing through her hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth; people whom I should count myself fortunate to know. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Jule peered into the sack he held out: four Crunchie bars, Hula Hoops, Swedish Fish, two bottles of seltzer, and a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then, somehow, he was up, and Manny was forcing the acrid smelling salts under his nose, forcing him back to reality. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after diversion, the water gushes through irrigation channels so quickly that it can’t evaporate and build up salts in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He finished by shaking salt directly into his mouth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was small for a Cyclops, still a child, really - a little over six feet tall, his messy brown hair crusted with salt water, his big single eye the colour of maple syrup. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Cold salt water rushed in, filling the boat and soaking the men. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I flushed the toilet so Andrea would think I’d really had to go, then I went into the bedroom and asked about the bath salts. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Your lips still taste of salt and soot. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Franklin adjusted the humidity of the chamber using an ingenious apparatus that bubbled hydrogen through salt water. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To bathe, they had to dive out their bedroom window and into the cold salt chuck of the harbor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I always thought she was being mean for limiting his favorite salted nuts, but she was trying to keep him healthy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Bits of bread were dipped into a batter made from flour, water, salt and an egg and then fried in deep hot fat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The family ran up a bill at the traders, bought expensive salt pork. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She told Seth he could use it in the same way he had used the salt in the bedroom. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Otherwise only their breathing in the silence of the salt moorland. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The snow fell upon them softly, like sifted salt, and their footsteps quietly thumped as they walked. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Chlorides, chlorates, salts of phosphonic acid, fluorides, and arsenic had been discharged from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal into holding ponds during the years of its operation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I think that already he foresaw his livelihood being wrested from him, for he salted and tanned his own skins, making them into chaplis for those in the village who wore them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the air, unmistakable, was the salt smell of the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She poured water into a bowl and salted it generously. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z His dark coat rippled in the salt breeze, his limp more pronounced tonight, as it always was when the weather turned cold. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “How do you remember all them names when you can’t remember from one minute to the next how much salt goes into the biscuits?” asked Hannah. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They also screamed as the salt water was thrown on them, and then they were forced to perform the same horrible dance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no butter for the potatoes, but there was salt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Jay looked on, his eyes dark and closed off, as what used to be Susie continued to clean the salt out of her skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The room smelled of salt water and snow and of the past—it was full of the scent of lost days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As she fumbled for salt, Kendra dashed around the well, placing it between herself and the attacker. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As the water on the surface cools, it begins to condense, and individual ice crystals act as seeds, causing the water to congeal around them, squeezing the salt out into the water below. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She leaps into the waves and comes back up again, her locks flying with salt water everywhere. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Now, what do you know about salt lines, Miss Ophelia Harrison?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They talked about merchants, and deserters, and levies, and not enough salt to last the winter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was packing our lunch, with a couple of early tomatoes and some salt for them in a twist of paper. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Every Sunday we swallow quinine tablets so bitter your tongue wants to turn itself inside out like a salted slug. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I pour flour, salt, more salt, pepper, paprika, and a pinch of cayenne into a doubled paper sack. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In it there were sacks of flour, meal, com, sugar, salt, and cases of canned food. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There is my solemn reflection looking back at me, my hair as white as salt. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The sun and salt and wind and currents had melded the bags into ropes and clumps. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She ate while she cried, tasting the salt of her tears in every bite. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We even have miniature silver la tour Eiffel salt and pepper shakers. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside my first brown paper bag: a white meat sandwich, an apple, crunchy curly things sprinkled with salt, and a cookie dotted with chocolate raindrops. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z ‘I got two hard-boiled eggs—already stuffed—with separate little packages of salt and pepper. And sandwiches—blackberry jelly with butter. Everything wrapped in oil paper. And paper napkins.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘I used to sop bread down in the drops our Dad left. I like to lick salt out my hand while I drink. This is the second bottle to myself I’ve ever had.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Dad had weighted down the note with the salt shaker. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When everything is set up, we gather around the fire and eat a dinner of rice and salted pork that Ma cooked earlier in the day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He steals a key ring from the horn of a sleeping djinn and throws it to a mermaid imprisoned on a salt stone at the center of a pink lake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z So he’d been getting paid with salt and then “buying” fish with this. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He had horse meat salted and pork smoked, and set the women to making fruit preserves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have seen to it that the porridge had been smoothly cooked and salted. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Even in the front of the house, I can hear the rumbly noise of ice cracking, the salt crunching. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The scent of salt water and storm was getting stronger, like a summer hurricane approaching. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The salt of her tears had smudged her eye makeup. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Someone had rubbed salt in all his wounds. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z There were women on the Iron Islands—not many, but a few—who crewed the longships along with their men, and it was said that salt and sea changed them, gave them a man's appetites. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A tear wiggled through a patch of dried salt on his cheek. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the freedom to pick his own training site, Tibbets selected a base in Wendover, Utah, a remote spot surrounded by salt flats. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Eleanor could stop sneaking into the bathroom after lunch to rub her teeth with salt. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She rubbed the space under the Madonna’s eyes, then tasted her fingertips, the way a person tests for salt in salt water. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His forehead streamed with perspiration and he tasted salt on his tongue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Within the universe, I felt like a speck, but within myself I felt gigantic, the salt air filling my lungs, the roaring of the waves rushing in my ears. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Dany took the warlock's words well salted, but the magnificence of the great city was not to be denied. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They also crave specific foods, such as protein-rich foods, fat, salt, sweet fruits, and foods that simply taste good. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Resting on an upturned crate or school desk would be the shank of a horse or a side of dog or cat, a box of salt, a licorice stick, an onion, a potato or two. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn’t understand any of it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he came in earshot he heard the trampling roar of sea on rock, where combers, rising shoreward, thudded down on the sucking ebb—all sheeted with salt foam. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew where Mum kept the salt and vinegar crisps hidden and I needed some. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge munched on the salt and pepper shakers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then they carried her to the camp hospital, where her mangled toe was amputated without anesthetics and treated with salt water. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Beekman and merchants like him shipped flour, bread, corn, salted beef, and wood to the Caribbean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The day was sparkling, and it seemed impossible to be anything other than grateful for the chance to stand in the ocean, looking out at the horizon while the salt water smacked them around. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They cried out, and the salt tears wet their eyes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As we hit the ocean, we bumped once, twice, skipping like a stone, then we were whizzing along like a speed boat, salt spray in our faces and nothing but sea ahead. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He also said the salt water was good for healing the pain and preventing tetanus. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was startlingly austere—some dried noodles, one bag of rice, raisins, coffee, salt, a good supply of candy bars, and toilet paper. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A woman whose flank and jaw glinted hard as salt when she knelt around a fire with other women; whose pale eyes were fixed on a distance where he couldn’t follow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few hours Matt’s arms ached, his back was stiff, and his eyes burned from salt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She passed some smelling salts under the old lady’s nose, making her flinch and moan, but she didn’t wake up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Arletta Paisley was from Hope Springs, Texas, and every word she said came out coated in a thick Texas drawl, sweet but with a little edge, like salted caramel. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Stupid Marysville had so much snow that winter that the town ran out of money to pay for the plowing and the salting and the sanding. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Ma put her wooden cheese hoop on the board, spread a clean, wet cloth all over the inside of it, and filled it heaping full of the chunks of salted curd. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Out front squatted a waist-high gargoyle, so eroded by rain and salt that his features were all but obliterated. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Like oat mash and a salt spoon to feed you with when milk wasn’t enough. A little brandy when you started teething, which I made her take away right then.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z When the corn was gone, the mule licked for the salt taste on his hand; the tongue was rough and wet, but it was also warm and precise across his fingers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The one with self-care and the smiley faces was stuck to the front of the sealed pint of sea salt caramel in the freezer. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Then Vilderling, it seemed, had decided to empty his bladder into the salt water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He was leaning forward and already the salt was whitening his body. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “No fatback. No salt pork. No pig of any kind in my kitchen.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Val stood on the platform as still as if she had been carved of salt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Here there was nothing except white patches of salt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was September when they sailed smartly into Boston Harbor, every man an old salt, the Astrea stripped of her chafing gear and gleaming with fresh paint and varnish. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” said Mack, “that won’t draw. You got any epsom salts up at your place?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I use cloves, too, and lots more seasoned salt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Dozens of figures, all carved out of salt. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He had had no breakfast and for supper the night before only one salt alewife and a mug of milk. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I big fool, getting this old lady to talk. The witch doctor hear about you, Nhamo. He smack his lips, you bet. Get out the salt and pepper.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was aware of his clean, masculine smell and at the same time of the smell of salt water and crab, which was my only perfume. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked to the edge of the water and breathed in the salt air. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z After a small breakfast of rice and salted eggs, we get back in our truck and take off again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The last was made of rope and wood, and the wet salt wind made it sway underfoot like a living thing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Constantly drenched in salt water, the men began to dehydrate. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The water was getting rougher, and the salt spray was whipping at my cheeks and stinging my eyes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Next to my plate and Taryn’s is a bowl of salt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They sprayed truck gardens and dairy farms, fish ponds and salt marshes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The shovel and bag of rock salt were right where he remembered. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Lies! my father shouted, Antonio was not baptized in the holy water of the moon, but in the salt water of the sea! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Meereen’s storehouses held ample supplies of grain, oil, olives, dried fruit, and salted meat, but the stores were dwindling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Beyond lay a deep salt moat and a drawbridge supported by a pair of massive chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z While the potatoes are cooking, I mix eggs, tomatoes, a little onion, a sprinkle of salt, and black pepper. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Another sought to add special salts to his shoe lining to make his beard fall out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He brought them a large plate full of jumokbap, small fist-sized rice balls mixed with barley, seaweed, salt, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds, sitting on a white cloth to prevent sticking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Bowls of stewed butter beans with bits of crispy salt pork sprinkled on top were at each place on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z King of a smoking rock in the great salt sea, yet a king nonetheless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even eats the squash, and then he licks my hands and fingers to get all the salt off, anyplace I’d touched a piece of chicken. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At the cooling station, I take giant swigs from my water bottle, then wet the bandanna I use to wipe the salt and perspiration off my grimy face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Even the knights and lords above the salt enjoyed less space than usual. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then, with teeth chattering, she’d hurry back to the house, where she’d take a cold water sponge bath, to get rid of the salt. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt in my tears feels good when it stings my lips. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Other times she would have to send away a particularly bothersome spirit with the threat of iron and salt, but those times were rare. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Carlos rode off in a plume of dust and salt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He borrowed a cup of dried peppers and a block of salt, and he brought in a long working knife, eighteen inches long and heavy, as a small ax, a tool and a weapon. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I can taste salt, and I want to scream Khalid’s name, scream so long and hard that the dead have no choice but to give him back to me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Packages of salted peanuts, buttermilk cookies, two pimiento-cheese sandwiches in plastic, sour balls, and a can of Red Rose snuff. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not bothering with salt, she takes a bite of each, holding the apple out for me to bite. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now they were gray and stiff with salt and sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z That would’ve been funny, except he started to get up again, spitting salt water and growling. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It appears to be a collection of her mother’s jewelry and some crystals she grew in a fridge with salt and food coloring. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I guess Brandy would be a bull shark. They can go back and forth between salt water and fresh water.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z At present our answers to these questions are for the most part only conjectures, but there is growing concern about the role of pesticide pollution in estuaries, salt marshes, bays, and other coastal waters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There’s silence, and salt stinging my eyes, though I won’t let the salt fall, and I think my heart must’ve stopped because I don’t hear it anymore now. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was overgrazed; rain eroded big arroyos in the gray clay, and the salt bush took hold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead she said okay, in English, patiently, and reached for the salt shaker. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She needed a proper comal or at least a cast-iron skillet, but the tortillas were still delicious rolled up warm with sugar and a bit of cinnamon and salt. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I tasted the salt of blood trickling down my cheeks. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The kitchen of the lake house faces the water, always smelling like citrus and salt and herbs, and his dad keeps it stocked with plump tomatoes and clay-soft avocados when they’re visiting. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One of the men in front of me stumbled, and a piece of salt clattered off the wooden boardwalk beneath us and splashed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Anyone worth his salt knows it’s best to get a look at a place before it gets a look at you. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Although Europeans bemoaned the lack of salt in Indian cuisine, they thought it nourishing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Well you make a hot poultice of epsom salts and put it on there. She’s weak, you know, from the pups. Be a shame if she got sick now. You’d lose the pups too.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But any Marine worth his salt can tell you that it’s not a bad idea to listen to the scuttlebutt. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ohhh. I smell too. Mama, heat me some water. I need a bath. A long one. We got any bath salts left? Oh, Lord, my head. Look at that.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I add a lot of salt and pepper. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Pa had made one by sprinkling salt over the ground. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin peeled away their skin, scraped away their innards, salted what was left, and chewed the rest—flesh, bones, and tiny feet. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She wipes the spatters away absentmindedly before scattering a teaspoon of salt into the chickpeas. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Her mother left her hand suspended in the air for a moment, as if the news were too tragic to continue sprinkling salt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I had been transferred there after a short time mining salt at Wieliczka. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Every morning the women were fed, doused with salt water, and made to dance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A solar still is a device to produce fresh water from salt water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We fill a dishpan with warm water, pour the salts in, swirl it around and carefully carry it to her feet. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z It feels a little raw because that’s where I kept them during the first game, and all the salt does that. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Made without salt, spices, leavening, or preservatives, masa must be cooked within a few hours of being ground, and the tortilla should be eaten soon after it is cooked. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We easily trade six of the fish for good bread, the other two for salt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I clipped out flowers from cans of Carnation milk and pinned a wreath around cutouts of the little girl under an umbrella from the salt box and of Mr. Quaker from the box of oatmeal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The ships whispered promises of speed and salt air and open horizons. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There were as well two of their own chickens killed and drawn and dried with the feathers on and stuffed with salt inside. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The brown pelt was well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I have tasted a lot more salt. I am to ask the first question, if we are to play the game.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z With it come the scents of salt and hay and fish markets and distant marshes and absolutely nothing that smells to her of war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Short-cropped salt- and-pepper hair, glasses, he was a patient, almost invisible arbiter of justice with an occasional strained pitch in his voice to punctuate the frustrations this case had inspired in him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I made some—milk, egg yolks, sugar, salt. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Did you see how bad the salt burned that guy?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They used a homemade gadget for scraping corn off the cob and added globs of butter, cream, and salt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Steam the asparagus, saute garlic and green onions, add some cream, blend it up, add salt and pepper.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sailors began throwing salt water on the women from buckets on the deck. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were cooking it wrong. I added salt to your stuffing too. You never add enough salt.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z But the recipe called for four pounds of Kosher salt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z His Spanish was so heavily salted with Zapotec, the language of Oaxaca’s biggest Indian group, that I could not make out a word of it; Ramirez Leyva had to translate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z John tried to laugh—John thought that he was laughing—but found, instead, that his mouth was filled with salt, his ears were full of burning water. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But every single morsel in each of my enemies’ baskets has been well and thoroughly salted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Kaede’s fingers were smeared with salt and lightly greased with oil from the bread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Odors of sweat, tobacco, coffee and damp stone surrounded us, overladen always by the smell of fish and nearby salt water. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Crick could then buckle down to his thesis task of investigating the ways that hemoglobin crystals shrink when they are placed in salt solutions of different density. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then he licked up the salt and took a swallow out of the glass. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Lies, lies, my father laughed, through your body runs the salt water of the oceans. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt made his eyes bum, until it was all he could do not to cry out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But it only brought back the memory of Jordie’s cold flesh, the way it had grown loose in the salt water, the bodies crowding around him in the flatboat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After adding a pinch of salt, I began beating the egg whites. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Most likely Maurice and Rosy were right in insisting that they were looking at the Na+ salt of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It follows the ocean’s shoreline, and I look for snowy egrets standing stick-still in the salt marshes and osprey circling, hunting fish. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when the other Japanese families arrived, we ate all night long: salted rice balls, fish cakes, rice crackers, rice candies, and barbecued chicken. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A salted mixture of sunflower, sesame, pumpkin, and pomegranate seeds drizzled with honey and baked to perfection. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And I, listening, Found not the salt of the whispers of my girl, Murmur of confused colors, as we lay near sleep; Little wise words and little witty words, Wanton as water, honied with eagerness. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe you can get some sleep. It’ll be gone in the morning. The salts will do the job.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, we knew our affection would revive when we saw one another on the dock the following June, salt spray in the air, pale sun glinting off the water. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z A slight breeze blew a fine dusting of salt over Matt’s skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He traded buttons and bags of cinnamon and salt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “William,” said Mr. Pumblechook, mournfully, “put the salt on. In happier times,” addressing me, “I think you took sugar? And did you take milk? You did. Sugar and milk. William, bring a watercress.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Her lips pressed together like she’d tasted sour lemonade, like that time we added salt instead of sugar. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I had brought some food — fruit, meat, sugar, salt, and a chicken — and my mother lit the stove to make tea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were dark stains under the arms that were ringed with salt at the edges. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I coughed, my mouth still pickled with the taste of salt water. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We almost screamed when the skin reacted to the salt, jerking and jumping like it was caught in a trap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Because nothing tastes better with stress than salt. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “You know, that salt didn’t do much to the satyr,” Kendra whispered. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Though there were stranger spices than salt in this sister’s stew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “If you spill salt, you have to throw some over your left shoulder to appease the evil spirits. No big deal.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A deer-lick was a place where the deer came to get salt. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have my thanks, Lord Snow. For the half-blind horse, the salt cod, the free air. For y hope.” t Their breath mingled, a white mist in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry could smell salt and hear rushing waves; a light, chilly breeze ruffled his hair as he looked out at moonlit sea and star-strewn sky. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Park waited for him to get up, but Richie just lay there, spitting curses and rubbing salt and gravel into his eyes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “They’re locked up in their compound. The doors and windows are covered with bags of salt—mountains and mountains of salt! All the boys helped.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the bedroom, women were holding smelling salts under her nose. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She writes “Call Dr. Sandler” on one of the red envelopes, propping it up against the salt and pepper shakers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If I’m on soak the bird for fourteen hours in the salt water, I’ll put it in the bucket around three this afternoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We are paying too dear for salt beef and pickled fish, and the quality of the olive oil we're getting has been frightful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was funny because his skin tasted of salt when my lips finally reached his cheek. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z When the day came, there was a difference about the salt marsh and the slob. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Not from the salt in my tears, but because I haven’t closed them since learning Hannah cried when I left the room. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z At home, I was given a warm salt solution, and when I washed out my mouth I showed Bailey the empty holes, where the clotted blood sat like filling in a pie crust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Come fall they’d shoot ducks and geese and salt ’em down and sell ’em by the barrel to restaurants in Boston. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The elbows with butter and salt are extra buttery tonight, just the way Axel likes them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I scoop the Spam into a serving bowl and add two eggs and seasoning salt, and I chop up the last few pieces of old bread we have. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A wave broke over his head, and he came up gagging and spitting salt water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z How could you butcher them when their time was up, salt and batter them, fry them up for Sunday dinner? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Walmart, which was then the nation’s largest grocery retailer, had joined our effort by pledging to cut the amount of sugar, salt, and fat in its food products and to reduce prices on produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As if this wasn’t bad enough, Benton was nearly shunned by his entire family, who, save for the occasional “How are you?” or “Could you pass the salt?” seemed oblivious to his very existence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z In the middle of the shelf, she grouped the baking powder, a box of salt, the mostly empty sack of flour, and the tin of lard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He returned to the ring around the bed and filled his hands and pockets with the salt that had scorched the intruder the night before. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But like a swirl of dust on the dry salt flats outside, a stream of boys moved to cut off the exit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were the color of the salt water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A fresh breeze was blowing in off the bay, and the tangy salt air tasted good. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When we camped that night it was strange to think, lying down, that under us there was no longer a mile of ice, but a few feet of it, and then salt water. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z My clothes disintegrated, victims of the sun and the salt. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z "Well, don't bother copying that one. Twenty-three barrels of pickled cod, eighteen jars of fish oil, a cask of salt ..." "An inventory," Sam said, "or perhaps a bill of sale." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I repositioned her head to open her airway, and this time when I breathed into her mouth she coughed salt water into mine. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z So I abandoned plans to cook with or serve my own salt, and counted myself lucky to have survived. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z You could stick your finger in the river water and lick it and you could taste the salt from the Bay. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And she wondered if she was mistaken, if she had perhaps imagined the bodies lying in the dust, so many bodies in the yard that recalling them made salt rush to her mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But as anyone worth his salt knows, it’s best to get a look at a place before it gets a look at you. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The words were spoken in a deep voice filled with salt water and brogue. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In it was a hunk of dried salt pork, a few apples, some wrapped cheese, and several hard biscuits. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing wrong with it was the lack of salt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Miss Trotter threw in that bit about her father’s rifle to rub salt in Ma Charles’s heart. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before the nozzle started to drip, but the drops that came out tasted more like salt water than fresh. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I finished the sea salt caramel as soon as you left,” she says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Not a one of us but Mama will eat them, and the only reason is she can remember how they tasted back home from the Piggly Wiggly with salt and Hellman’s mayonnaise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I realized that he must have had some kind of premonition because he could easily buy Epsom salts in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of using something that might harm us, I mix a concoction of a surfactant, NaCl, and a chemical derivative of acetic acid—aka Dawn dish soap, salt, and vinegar. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But at that moment, my tears burst into a wave like the big salt at high tide. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t want any salt, but she ate the whole thing up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He pretended, therefore, that he had gone mad, and when a messenger from the Greek Army arrived, the King was plowing a field and sowing it with salt instead of seed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Crouching, he scooped up two handfuls from the circle of salt and charged the wiry goblin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Magdalys yelled as the smell of salt water reached her on the ocean wind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Every breath of air was delicious with just enough of a clean, salt edge to wake up all your senses. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is nothing sweet. I will sow salt, lest the bitter weeds grow.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An instant before the outstretched hand of the demon reached him, Seth flung a handful of salt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As I pass by he tosses a handful of salt over his shoulder, spraying me with it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z And sleep, such sleep...deep and sweet and sound as I had not known for many nights; it claimed me even as I sat amid the rice husks and fish scales and drying salt. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is the land grant to all of the territory from the silver mountains to the blue hills, from the dead salt sea there to the distant valleys of moonstone and emerald,” said the Leader. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I can taste salt on my lips, and wisps of hair are sticking to my sweaty forehead. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The rest—like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without any effort, remaining what it was implacably— was out of their hands, beyond. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "The maester's ravens fly over salt as soon as rock. This news is old and cold." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “What are you doing? Give me my food!” she barks at me and unwraps the banana leaves to find rice and salted pork. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna opened it and placed the squat cans of condensed milk and the slender tin of Ovaltine and the packet of salt on the bed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The same salt that lay in the bottom of the sea and in the sweat of a horse’s neck. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, stuff like magnesium salts, and alcohol for keeping the Deltas and Epsilons small and backward, and calcium carbonate for bones, and all that sort of thing.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A fine dust of salt and sand pattered over his face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z By the morning, my face is salted dry. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I have eaten of his bread and salt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He rubbed his cheek along his forearm, smelling the acrid scent of salt and sweat and the staleness of dirt. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Hand me that seasoning salt out the cabinet. You think you can get them greens going for me?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She smiled at the salt and pepper shakers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We sat eating pistachios and breathing salt air. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “I’m so glad I tasted your sea salt caramel before ordering,” Mom says, glancing back at me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The same salt smell was in the air, and the water chuckling against the hull was just as he remembered it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The salt wood burned orange and blue in the fire’s heart and he sat watching it a long time. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The salt sea was at her back, and to the south was the fish market and the docks and the swirling torrent of the Blackwater Rush. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In medium bowl, whisk together cement mix, salt, and gravel. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But they all sounded like witches’ brews: the plasma of chickens, puree of calf fetuses, special salts, and blood from human umbilical cords. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z With her short curly hair, she looked like the salt girl on the crates, and she carried a red bandana knapsack on her back. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In the next, casks of salt beef, salt pork, salt mutton, and salt cod were stacked ten feet high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want you with me because you’ve got the blood of Poseidon. Maybe you can help me figure out where to find salt water. Besides, you’re good in a fight.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The ocean is made of salt water, and I wonder for a moment if it’s possible that we were actually born of the sea and crawled ourselves onto these islands. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Like, for example, as a redcap, Madoc needs bloodshed the way a mermaid needs the salt spray of the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At the edge of the blackened field they ate the salt pork and the beans Boseman had prepared, the dry flies screeching in waves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I reach into my pocket and cup a little salt in the center of my palm. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mother packed Zuraiq’s skin with salt and set it in the sun to dry. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “Nail polish and perfume and bath salts,” Theodora said, as one telling the cities of the Nile. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I feel it on my skin—my face feels tighter, as if all the salt has found its way to every crevasse and pore. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I wondered how a chicken cooked in four pounds of salt was still edible. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Captain Nips reached into one coat pocket for a pinch of salt, and into the other for pepper. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Their girls are on them immediately, passing smelling salts under their noses and escorting them out, half carrying them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Someone had put down a thick barrier of salt just inside the door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z For the first time I truly appreciate the expression, because the salt in the water makes the pain of my wounds so blinding I nearly black out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And Rachel, with the emotional complexities of a salt shaker. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re pretty busy salting down a new load of herring, but Devlin Murphy, the boss and owner, he gives me the eye and comes over before I can get away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It was true—the walls were made of salt! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z We were sitting in chemistry lab, waiting to see what happened when we mixed silver nitrate and salt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She also took containers of salt and sugar. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt trapped again, like I had felt under the floorboards and down in the salt mine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He groped for what he knew had been there, and all he fished up was the awful word Weep, slick with wrongness, damp as bad dreams, and tinged with its residue of salt. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Or would she banish them with salt and iron? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Because the water forces out salt as it freezes, the water below the ice field is saturated with salt and minerals, and the ice itself is clean enough to melt into drinking water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Curzon’s tears dried, leaving a thin trail of salt down his cheeks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She adds salt, lemon juice, thin slices of green chili pepper, wishing there were mustard oil to pour into the mix. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When everything was finished, he tossed them onto the counter, along with a small pile of salt for dipping. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Mother shouted the words “Epsom salts and water” as she raced down the hall, desperately searching for a nurse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I can taste salt on my tongue—I bet my tears somehow sucked back into my eyeballs and made their way down my throat. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I had been on the other side of the river buying a dram of quicksilver and a pouch of sea salt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I ran myself a hot bath, throwing in a good handful of Judy’s bath salts, and when I got out and put on my clothes I felt quite myself again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z So, having bought bread, a handful of salt alewives, and asked if anyone knew where Doctor Warren was, he quickly left. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z True to their word, they give us rice with salted fish to eat and allow us to drink as much water as we want. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once she comes, she won’t be able to leave, because I’ll have poured a ring of salt that she will find impenetrable, and she’ll have no choice but to stay and speak with me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He stood and scanned the island—bleach-white dunes, blankets of grass, and boulders encrusted with salt like frosting. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The result didn’t taste as good as salt, but it was better than nothing, and the same residue could be used to tenderize tough leaves or meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cutting off a nice thick slab of salt pork, I roasted it, and with a piece of cold com bread made a sandwich. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It began in 1896 when Henri Becquerel in Paris carelessly left a packet of uranium salts on a wrapped photographic plate in a drawer. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I held out the Epsom salts and baklava. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That was why sugar, like salt, was so rare and why, much as she wanted to, Nhamo didn’t dare take a spoonful for herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But I liked salt and pepper and I wanted to know more than I did. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It doesn’t even have to be an important or hard word, like amnesty or communism, but something easy, like salt or butter or sky or star. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Rafik said, “Let's hope the hat has shrinking powers, too, and makes you tiny, the size of a salt shaker. Otherwise that tray's going to tip.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her face is flushed and sweaty, and she can’t tell whether the salt in her eyes is from perspiration or involuntary tears. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Auri finished her meal quickly after that, and tied up the bag of salt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His breakfasts may have been a cardiologist’s nightmare—eggs, sausage, bacon, pastina with a poached egg—but he considered his marinara sauce to be healthy perfection: just garlic, oil, tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Grime and salt sweat stung his eyes and trickled around the edges of his filter mask. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe it was that we could see and smell the ocean and the tar, salt, and wood from the wharf. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My father took a bite, took a sip of diet soda, blinked, sniffed, poured salt on his steak. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The runaway would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into his or her open wounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In the evenings she cooks for him, hoping to please, with the unrationed, remarkably unblemished sugar, flour, rice, and salt she had written about to her mother in her very first letter home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He thought maybe somebody had mistaken salt for sugar. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The tables in the other half are set end to end, their bare wood graced only with salt and pepper shakers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “He also likes the popcorn salt and butter on your hand.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She thought back to the strange way Penelope had stood outside Mrs. Caruthers’s room, and the fact that Mr. Henry had decided to salt only the old woman’s room and Clara’s old room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the reflection of the glass bay doors, she looked like she’d swallowed a teaspoon of salt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He carried smelling salts in his pocket for such occasions. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z No one spoke, except to say “pass the salt” or “where’s the butter?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If I didn’t shut off the geysers soon, the salt water would run into the river and poison the fish and plants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The salt I had gathered in San Francisco Bay was too toxic to serve. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When he took the plate out some time later, he was surprised to discover that the salts had burned an impression in it, just as if the plate had been exposed to light. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This one battle to patent radioactive salt threatened to extinguish all this goodwill, slowing down the propagation of the cyclotron if not halting it altogether. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I even know enough to sprinkle salt on the top, to cut down the foam. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The crystals are made of mineral salts, and they looked evilly sharp. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A pinch more salt, a touch less cream. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He was afraid of being lost, so he repeated trail marks to himself: this is my mouth tasting the salt of her brown breasts; this is my voice calling out to her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet all I could really taste was salt and that all-purpose fast-food flavor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One day, a packet-ship arriving from Nova Scotia with meat, thus alleviating the city’s starvation, I purchased a salted ham-hock with Sally, and, by her side, stripped it for cooking. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But why did he need salt beef, hard cheese, and bread crawling with worms when he had wine to nourish him? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her skin is soft and tastes like salt, like a night run. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “You’re the one,” she said, frowning at me like I was soup with too much salt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z With some salt from his pocket clutched in one hand and the flashlight in the other, Seth led the way. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Talk about “integrated”! It was like salt and pepper. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I must let them fall untouched, and suffer the bitter salt upon my lips, plumbing the depths of humiliation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A light breeze came off the water, smelling of salt and marshlands. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The day was bright and the sea blue and the salt air clear. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I decided to ignore him, looking back down at my bowl of salted potatoes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z At the sight of the three of them nipping and rolling on the carpet, exhorting each other with socially useful phrases such as “Pass the salt, please!” and “May I take your umbrella?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Digging in his pockets, Seth withdrew the remnants of his salt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The satyr stopped short, obviously surprised by the cloud of salt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z More whispered words: prayer sounds, begging, an exhalation of storm and salt terror. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We had potatoes and carrots buried in the straw and salt pork bangin’ from the rafters. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “If that hasn’t happened by now, it isn’t going to. We’ll be careful, and we’ll make sure to get back before dark. We’ll be fine. We have the salt. That stuff works like acid.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was like salt thrown on a slug. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The women sing Christian hymns as they walk, and some carry guitars, or they carry sacks of charcoal or salt balanced on their heads. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rodney and Connor then lined up all the salt and pepper shakers and started tossing sugar packets over the barricade with forks and spoons as catapults. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Ralph wiped the salt water off his lips and tried again, but the shell remained silent. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The breeze came from the south and carried a salt tang with it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And his poor wife, of course, got turned to a pillar of salt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam ground some pink salt over them and nibbled at a caramelized edge, watching Redemption’s face in her periphery. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She stood by the stove, sifting the yellow corn meal from her fingers into a kettle of boiling, salted water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Theon stood, blinking back tears from the salt in his eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The salt pork box was in the back of the store and during the walk Mrs. Tony was so eager she sometimes stepped on Joe’s heels, sometimes she was a little before him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z His eyes were flinty too, black and sharp, but the years and the salt winds had turned his hair the grey of a winter sea, flecked with whitecaps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The king sprinkled a pinch of salt in his cup before he drank; Davos took his water straight, wishing it were wine."You were speaking of your council?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I started running for the path through the salt meadow marsh with Call puffing behind me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And while Dad is telling us another story for the hundredth time, Mom removes the salt from the table and JB goes to the buffet. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z A swell of salt water washed over the bow, dousing Coach Hedge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As soon as the meat singed and slightly burnt, she cleaned the beavers, washed their carcasses with salted water and stuffed them with corn and potatoes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z His skin was tanned by the salt of the open air, his hair was short and straight like the mane of a mule, his jaws were of iron, and he wore a sad smile. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They would bring us things like onions and salt, which were not ingredients that she used. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z One night we saw three deer standing around it quietly, reaching toward the smell of salt. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt he kept for himself, but from the soap he would shave thick peels to trade for food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “And what a miserable fish raw. I will never go in a boat again without salt or limes.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I tasted fear and despair like salt in my mouth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped it in a kettle of boiling water and then added a bit of sugar and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone would notice the salt, surely, and it’d be yet another reason why Caroline Murphy should not be allowed to have any friends. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A cool breeze blew off the water, misting me with salt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Johnny could smell hemp and spices, tar and salt water, the sun drying fish. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The chips are mostly crushed, but the burn and tang of the salt and vinegar sates me as I gulp down the Coke. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z John Joly, also of Trinity, decided to give Edmond Halley’s ocean salts idea a whirl, but his method was based on so many faulty assumptions that he was hopelessly adrift. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If only the King’s groups had thought about models, they would have asked which salt was present and we would not be placed in this tiresome position. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Once I would have kept her as a salt wife in truth, he thought to himself as he slid his fingers through her tangled hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They boiled water and mixed it with the precious sugar and salt to feed the weakest people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instantly, I felt fire as the salt stung the scratches on my skin. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Next to the bamboo stick is a bowl of rice and some salted eggs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My palms are faintly green, for like everything else on the ship, the tiller wheel has turned to copper and has oxidized green in the salt sea air. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It had lots of fiber, she pointed out, and she had us salt it heavily because the iodine would keep us from getting goiters. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He was sorry that Bone Gap seemed to be cursed somehow, big losses salted with tiny tragedies almost too insulting to bear. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But the nuns are fasting now, eating only bread with salt and water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Wheels of white cheese were set at every table, above and below the salt, and flagons of hot spice wine and chilled autumn ale were passed up and down the tables. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The bananas didn’t taste good at all, because there was no salt or any other ingredients, but we ate every single bit, just to have something in our stomachs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Boots were scuffed on the inside and salted with horse sweat, and the heels run over. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The logic was appealing, but unfortunately no one knew how much salt was in the sea or by how much it increased each year, which rendered the experiment impracticable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He hobbled the mule and tied a long rope to the burro and let them graze on the thin, bluish green leaves of salt bushes growing at the entrance to the canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The pain from the salt water must have hurt worse than the whip. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She seasoned it with salt and pepper and with dried sage leaves from the garden. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “The idea is the water evaporates. It leaves the salt behind. The droplets condense on the inside top of the jug and drip out the nozzle.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One, two, three, four...Counting them over and over, as if that would replenish the empty water kegs and meager slabs of salted meat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My eyes are starting to sting from all the salt in the tears I try not to let fall. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Chou enters a hut and comes out with a few metal pots, aluminum bowls, and the remaining few small bags of rice and salt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he poured salt in the bowl and scrubbed it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The black streaks held the salt that Papa said had got mixed up with the rocks a jillion years ago. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Though we do not have to work, we are given a ration of rice and salt and sometimes fish. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulls the smelling salts out and puts them under Miss Celia’s nose and Miss Celia jerks her head, lets out a little cry, and opens her eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He cut the hot dog into three pieces on a plate and lightly shook on salt and pepper. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They were not the kind his mother would let sit at her table with dirty hands to handle her salt and pepper shaker angels. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z After removing the chicken from the oven, I spread the crinkled leaves of kale on a cookie sheet, sprinkled them with olive oil and salt, and slid them into the hot oven to roast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Now his hair is full of salt and pepper, and he's not as tall as I remember. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Neel didn’t mind—he loved the tang of salt on his tongue and the squish of mud between his toes. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Even wicks for oil lamps; salt bags to scrub the teeth. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I fill a water bottle from the large keg and mix in rehydration salts. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When the light dawned in the morning, they were like a company of ghosts, their faces drained and pale with strain, their beards and hair white with snow and salt spray. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z That was the sea so full of salt, you could sit upright in it as if it were a chair. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After the animals had been tended to, the riders shared a simple supper of salt pork and cold white beans, washed down with ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Riding her into the Meadowlands with Daddy on a clear Saturday morning, letting her graze the salt hay and cordgrass. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The wind picked up, lifting her veil and lashing her cheeks with salt spray. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The chandlery was crammed with everything for ships—everything from barrels of salt beef to cables and marline-spikes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Sour—key lime juice preserved with salt. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Stopping, he wiped stinging sweat from his eyes, salt tears produced by his skin, his whole aching body. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She took her sharp knife and cut the slice of salt pork in half, the crisp sound of the meat making my belly rumble. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They wash themselves with orange-colored Lifebuoy soap, dust themselves with Cashmere Bouquet talc, clean their teeth with salt on a piece of rag, soften their skin with Jergens Lotion. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “No arcanist worth his salt can be kept in a cell,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Instead, she sent for Epsom salts and began the treatment right away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And through the back door comes the smell of kelp and barnacles when the tide is out and the smell of salt and spray when the tide is in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were salt and pepper shakers stuck to it, the contents hard-ened. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Flecks of gray salt the dark brown bob that curves around her heart-shaped face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She said, “You can smell the salt. The moon’s out. It’s high above everything, and soft.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly we boarded the ships, the quartermaster dictated we should be switched to salt rations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Harry could feel flecks of cold salt spray hitting his face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He draped a salt herring across each slice. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z And the man looked away, wiping a salt tear from his cheek; but he hid this from Eumaios. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were too caught up in Beetee’s plan to electrify the salt lake,” says Caesar. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On the plains, it is easy for elephants to find salt in hardpans and dry water holes, but in the rain forest salt is a precious thing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can make you an ointment for that,” said Haldon, “and there are certain mineral salts that will toughen your skin.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An’ when the salmon run up river we could catch a hundred of ‘em an’ salt ‘em down or smoke ‘em. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham must have salted the earth where it grew, I don’t see it any more. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I blinked salt out of my eyes and spat out another mouthful of sour seawater. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It looked like the fish was wrapped tightly in a salt cocoon. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Comforting sounds of work and activity, the air tanged with the coal reek of smelters and the salt fresh breeze coming off the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “It reminds them of the big salt—that’s the ocean. Since ghosts can’t cross water, they stay away from the color.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then picking up a cloth bag, she throws bags of sugar, salt, dried fish, uncooked rice, and canned foods into it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Next question. How does adding salt change the freezing and boiling points of water?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She mixed salt with cold water and gently plastered the gritty mixture onto my feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was just that she was away from the ocean, the salt water with its tides and turbulence, that made her sad. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt and iron nail, a replacement for the one she’d lost in the attic, were both in her apron pocket. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Ged doled their food out sparingly, and the portent of this was plain, but both of them chewed their bit of salt fish and wheaten cake, and neither said anything. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The refugee officials theft divide and ration us salt, water, rice, fish, and sometimes chicken. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the sausage balls, or the salt pork, or the smoked hams and the venison, Ma could get for herself from the shed or the attic. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So hard and resilient that they could last for centuries in the cold salt and sand of islands like ours. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It was the first time I had seen him unshaven, the small white whiskers looking so out of place, as if someone had shaken salt neatly across his cheeks and chin. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A boys’ day out with Frank and a bloodthirsty satyr, to find salt water in a landlocked city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Not salt The sun sparkled on the water, and the sky was pure blue. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We left without eating breakfast, for the porridge, sugar and salt were supposed to carry us through the day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophie stood, her hands instinctively going to the bundle of salt and the iron nail she kept with her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He carried the boy’s filthy clothes into the surf and washed them, standing shivering in the cold salt water naked from the waist down and sloshing them up and down and wringing them out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I had watched my parents be taken away to their deaths, had avoided Amon Goeth and his dogs, had survived the salt mines of Wieliczka and the sick games of Trzebinia. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s also pure salt and so completely useless to me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z For the Witch looked stronger and prouder than ever, and even, in a way, triumphant; but her face was deadly white, white as salt. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I could be back in Holkham, with the screech of gulls in my ears and salt on my tongue and a ghost train passing on the rusted track half a mile away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There were sacks of salt, and sacks of store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As the adrenaline from the encounter ebbed, a thirst dry as salt came over me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I ate olives, salted almonds and potato chips and looked at myself in civilian clothes in the mirror behind the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z On the march, through the hot days of early April, he carried the pebble in his mouth, turning it with his tongue, tasting sea salt and moisture. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They jump up from the table, saunter into the kitchen for more butter, or the salt, which has been forgotten. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "Our brothers," Asha reminded him, with a half smile that suggested she took his talk of vengeance well salted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He reached for a shaker of spicy salt and dumped half of it into his bowl. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When the morrow came, most of the morning was given over to talk of grains and greens and salting meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After a quick lunch of rice with salted fish, we climb in the truck and move again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The background music is one more irritation on top of squeaky shopping cart wheels, and people asking “Do you have shallots?” and “Where is the kosher salt?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I loved how the sun and salt spray perfused my skin, filling me with the memory of light. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Now hearing these details—minutely true— she felt more strangely moved, and tears flowed until she had tasted her salt grief again. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she saw rough hands picking apart ropes and twining them together again, with salt in the air and a breeze in the sails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The sea salt caramel pint is no longer sealed or in the freezer—it’s empty at the bottom of the garbage can under the sink. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I knew the names of all the spices on Mama’s spice rack before I could read: salt, paprika, turmeric, cumin, coriander, mint. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The heartburn brought tears to his eyes, so that his image of Campbell was distorted by jiggling lenses of salt water. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If the zombie can get a taste of salt, he will under* stand. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And if they used a bit more salt than necessary those first few weeks, much to the chagrin of the neighborhood’s ghosts, the mother did not complain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The ones that had sun dried were stiff with salt, but I whipped them against the rocks, salt rising from them in clouds, and put them on. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z We boil potatoes with their skins, so we won’t waste a thing, and eat them with butter and salt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Next came Little Tilly swallowed up in his coat with salt water dripping from under it and forming a brackish pool on the floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his friends took pictures of one another in bathing suits at Coney Island beach, the salt wind from the Atlantic blowing their hair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad poured water and salt into a jam jar and dabbed at our bites.The salt burned but he said we’d feel better soon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z While my husband’s intentions crystallized as rock salt, and while I preoccupied myself with private survival, the Congo breathed behind the curtain of forest, preparing to roll over us like a river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Jude jostles my leg under the table with her foot to get my attention back from the salt shaker I realize I’ve been staring down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There was another tray with salt, pepper, and ketchup in case we had ordered the Western breakfast. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When his face was cleaned he washed his right hand in the water over the side and then let it stay in the salt water while he watched the first light come before the sunrise. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama Ya-Ya is outside using her senses: sniffing for sea salt, feeling hot wind, listening for the roar of water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Soon, it'll be near evening and Daddy and I will walk slow back into the house where I'll pull the Epsom salt from the shelf fill the dishpan with warm water, massage his swelling hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z On it was a plate containing two bread loaves, half an onion, and the scanty remnants of a salted fish, the leavings from Gebu’s breakfast. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A pinch of the precious salt and a few bean sprouts filled her with energy for a while, but it wore off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In St. Louis, peanuts were bought in paper bags and mixed with jelly beans, which meant that we ate the salt and sugar together and I found them a delicious treat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s elbows with extra butter and extra salt, and it is right in front of Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z "The earth ends at the black salt sea," Drogo answered at once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I watched her as she began to eat, dipping a green bean into the salt before taking a bite. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bouillon cubes and some salt—the food they got had no flavor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel the change from salt water to fresh water. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She stood taking deep breaths of the salt, fish-tainted air, and looked about for someone to share her excitement. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Like Abimelech, in the book of Judges, who sowed the fields of his own people with salt after he put down their rebellion. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The mechanism of Harrison's chronometer could withstand the turbulent motion of a ship at sea, defy changes of temperature, and resist the corrosion of salt water and air. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Twice that day they rested and took a little of the food provided by Faramir: dried fruits and salted meat, enough for many days; and bread enough to last while it was still fresh. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They sat facing each other in a booth, and Jean Louise studied the napkin container, the sugar bowl, the salt and pepper shakers. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then he cut up the meat, and sprinkled salt over the pieces as he laid them on a board. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides the chicken and vegetables, the tray has coffee, hot water, a teabag, milk, sugar, salt, pepper, juice, yogurt, and a cookie. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The woods were thinner near the sea, the terrain mostly flatlands, rolling hills, and salt marshes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were stiff from salt and felt clammy. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivan’s mom smelled like the river after a thunderstorm, and a handful of salt crystals, and some kind of flower that Anya couldn’t place, and an ice-cold winter night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The water is clear, and we can smell its salt. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z So he left the bag of rock salt in the stairwell, and took the shovel upstairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z There was the tang of salt, of sun, of weakened brine, and grit dissolved in the breakers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her salt was finished, but she had made a substitute some time ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Because everything was labeled in English, some people got confused and sprinkled packets of salt in their tea instead of sugar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Any librarian worth her salt would not approve of the activities taking place inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Pa skinned the deer carefully and salted and stretched the hides, for he would make soft leather of them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday I got desperate and boiled some old potatoes and ate them with nothing but salt and pepper. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They loved to eat bits of the curd when Ma was salting it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They had waited nearly an hour on the sidewalk for their table and then feasted on flowering chives and salted squid and the clams in black bean sauce that Maxine loved best. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But there was no salt; it didn’t taste very good, but it wasn’t seawater. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The food is warm and spicy and salted just right, better than anything I've ever tasted, except for Bedi Ma'am's treats. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The water was blue and the wind was fine and the smell of salt and tar was strong in his nostrils. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He poured out his beer and sprinkled a few grains of salt on the back of his hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I couldn’t afford salt for my meals, or drinks on my rare evenings out with friends. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The water pulls at my legs, and I cling to the rock, tasting salt on my lips. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Olanna went inside to count the cans of dried milk, tea, biscuits, Ovaltine, sardines, the cartons of sugar, the bags of salt—and she could not help the gasp when she saw the toilet tissue. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Now add one grain of salt to any table and let Bob Evans walk among them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You take this,” she said, her voice cracked and dry, as though salted. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The container burst into a shower of salt as it hit the girl in the chest. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She talked about stray cats she had rescued or how she had made a mistake and put salt into a cake batter instead of sugar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They hooked me up with two IVs: one sugar, one salt. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion Lannister could smell the salt in the air, mingled with the stink from the latrine ditches behind the slave pens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soon they were out of sight of the sea, though the smell of salt still hung sharp in the damp air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In it I put six eggs, some leftover corn bread, a little salt, and a few matches. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But when they were whipping some seaman they had another man standing by his side with a bucket of salt water, which he would throw into the open whip-wounds after each strike. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up the salt shaker and tapped its glass base against the tablecloth a few times. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Her lip split and blood ran down her chin, to mingle with the salt of her tears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When you’re through, The dog will lick Your palms for the flakes Of oil and salt, And he will wag His tail And pump his legs In his parade Of dog happiness. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They continue talking, Ruth eating the chips, brushing the salt from around her lips with the back of her hand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If I spilt salt, I should toss a pinch over my left shoulder to ward off misfortune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Wise’s and Lay’s salt and vinegar potato chips, for instance, have a DOD of 8. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A salting of broken glass glinted in the summer sun. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z To understand what a feat this is, imagine a standard dining room table covered in a black tablecloth and someone throwing a handful of salt across it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ahead of them lay an island—a line of sand so white, it might have been pure table salt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was close enough so that her knee was his whole view of things, and he smelled the salt on her skin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He tried hard not to swallow, but the clarion call in Guitar’s voice filled his mouth with salt. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We flavored the soup with hickory salt, and cut a lot of Solomon’s seal tubers into it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She stirred a potful of green beans stewing in fatback and poured in a big handful of salt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His brown hair was salted with white now, his face chiseled gaunt by time, yet the years had not touched his pride. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But it was the old woman’s room he had salted, not Richard’s. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I measured two coffee mugs of buckwheat flour into a bowl, stirred in four spoonfuls of Royal Baking Powder—the only kind Aunt Ivy ever used—and half a spoonful of salt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He hoped that they never smelled of sea salt, that they never heard the urgings of the ocean, that they were so lonely that being a stranger in them hardly mattered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z "My father has donned the ancient crown of salt and rock, and declared himself King of the Iron Islands. He claims the north as well, by right of conquest. You are all his subjects." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The boys’ mouths taste of cigarettes and salt, their skin smells like Old Spice after-shave. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They stung like when I’d been at the beach all day and gotten too much salt water in them. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He was always summoned for feasts, seated near the salt, close to Lord Stannis. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even with the falling snow, the air had the sting of salt water, and we crunched broken seashells under our shoes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z We pull the wings and heads off the bugs we catch and roast them with salt and pepper. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a taste on them of salt and of the fresh sweetness of rainwater. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The chauffeur came up with a bucket full of salted ice. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The flakes seem to appear from out of nowhere, like an invisible hand sprinkling salt onto zombies. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z After the deer meat had been salted several days, Pa cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first concoction included one mealworm, a piece of fern, two sunberries, and pinches of salt and sugar. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “What about: How to make crystal spikes out of Epsom salt?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The abrasive Atlantic winds and the salt of the sea would eventually cleanse my soul. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I walk down the hallway, my head down so far that the salt water drips from the tip of my nose. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z "Bless him with salt, bless him with stone, bless him with steel. Nephew, do you still know the words?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The meat was laid on a board in the backdoor shed, and every piece was sprinkled with salt. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z These heroines were always willowy and managed to land in graceful postures of repose, and were revived with the merest passing of a decorated flagon of smelling salts under their noses. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Might be an apple, or might even be a biscuit and a piece of salt pork. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of salt was heavy on the wind gusting from the east. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Fred wiggled and whooshed his whole body back and forth, churning up a whirlpool of murky salt water. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She carries, as usual, packets of warm, salted food for her grandson, a nail file, and a new bar of soap. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried it over to the skin and poured the water out in a huge wave, washing the rest of the salt away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s John Jr., carrying in a tray of rice crackers wrapped in roasted nori, salted nuts, strips of dried squid. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She could still smell the salt water and the pine trees. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Mr. Henry, I noticed there was some salt just inside of Mrs. Caruthers’s door.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the old days, I, the oldest daughter, would have been given some comforting rum-filled brew, or salted black coffee, to drink before seeing her father’s body for the first time. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z My pulse racing, I mix the flour and salt and oil and water to make the dough, kneading it with my hands like bread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Caroline waited until he had generously salted and peppered his potatoes, then she laid her elbows on the table and propelled herself a bit closer to it and thus to him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The green water was warm as tears, but there was no salt in it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She sat me in a basin of warm water with salt, because she thought that might draw more worms out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Most of the salt occurred in the sediments on the swamp bottoms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Long, unfamiliar words ending in tion, ism, and actic, with more talk about “the people” thrown in for good measure, like Big Ma throwing a pinch of salt into the cake batter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t dare look at him for fear of turning into a pillar of salt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The big grains of salt on the pretzel skin tasted delicious. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But there’s no scent of salt or violet water hidden in its creases. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Supper was pease porridge and yesterday’s bread, and that caused muttering amongst the common men as well; above the salt, the lords and knights were seen to be eating ham. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Either way, the water on her face tasted like salt. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "I bet you're hungry. How about we go home and I make you a meal with just the right amount of salt?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophie crept out of the bedroom and down the stairs, stopping only to grab the iron nail and salt out of the pocket of her work apron. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Now and then she drank water and nibbled the rest of the beans and salt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This has to do with the fishes of salt marshes, bays, and estuaries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Meals were meager and repetitive: salt pork, stale biscuits, and whatever fish could be caught by the crew. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The salt air felt good on our faces as we ran against a light chop. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z We lived on a Sea Island called Wadmalaw, about twenty miles from Charleston, the biggest city in South Carolina, and our house was right on the water, next to the salt marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z On the night of Ulbrickson’s talk, cold north winds blew enormous breakers in off Puget Sound, pushing salt water two blocks inland at Alki Beach and along the waterfront in West Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the case of springs rich in mineral salts, the cures are easily explained: the salts would help to clean and dry up skin infections. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z At the end of the night, I start refilling the salt and pepper shakers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He knew it had worked before he opened his eyes: The smell of salt, the sea breeze had gone. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I used to just put a whole bunch of them in my mouth at the same time, suck all the salt off, then spit them all out machine-gun-style. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When we go home Mam makes tea and bread and jam or mashed potatoes with butter and salt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So she was turned to a pillar of salt. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z No one has offered to share what I smell: sardines, dried durian, salted eggs, toasted sesame. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Good old-fashioned salts. It may gripe you a little but it’ll do the job.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She chopped the meat fine with her chopping knife in the wooden bowl, she seasoned it with pepper and salt and spices. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Just the feather-soft brush of wings against her lips as they melted back into her, leaving an aftertaste of salt and soot. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z You enjoyed The trumpet Of noise and salt. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When no more whey dripped from the cloth, Ma emptied the curd into a big pan and salted it, turning and mixing it well. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Candles float in three small pools: the first is full of rose petals, the second is thick with an infusion of aloe, and the last one simmers with salt, sulfur, and steam. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The salt was making me so thirsty, but I just couldn't stop eating them. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Seth dug some of the remaining salt out of a pocket and rushed ahead. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It submerges her throat and her nose, her open eyes that do not perceive salt. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The UN’s refugee agency had heard about all of us waiting in that field, and they arrived with dried corn, beans and lentils, oil, and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually there was a good supply of salt fish kept in barrels, but fish had not been plentiful the past summer, so now the supply was meager. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He did notice a small group of redcoats doing something down among the salt marshes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Prune makers sent along a full-scale knight on horseback sculpted out of prunes, and the Avery Salt Mines of Louisiana displayed a copy of the Statue of Liberty carved from a block of salt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The air smelled of salt, seaweed, and something burnt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He said that the salt water from the Bay reached into the rivers and streams for long distances. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s profile in the window turned to salt crystal, reflecting all light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He dips a hand in the water and puts his fingers in his mouth to taste the salt. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The air stank of fried food and salt water. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Seth flung a handful of salt at the witch. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Dinners are simple: boiled corn from a farm stand, cold chicken, pasta with pesto, tomatoes from the garden sliced and salted on a plate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Attendant’s charge has passed out, and the woman’s serving girl is trying to alternately drag her or revive her with smelling salts while the Attendant provides a distraction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was seawater coming in on the tide, and it was strange to Lyra, who had never swum in salt water before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Above the thunderous destruction, she could hear screams and shrieks, and when the old woman closed her eyes, the salt water on her face was not only from the ocean waves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “A friend of ours brought us some provisions,” Olanna said, holding out the bag of salt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the powerful humidity the powdered mix got transfigured like Lot’s poor wife who looked back at Gomorrah and got turned to a pillar of salt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They always paid like they promised, or most often sent home a slab of beef or salt pork in exchange for my work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And to do this in bis name, that was salt in the wound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Plus I can’t see because my eyes are drenched in salt water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t sure how they would pull off a rescue if scalding the monster with salt failed, but Seth was right about one thing—they couldn’t just abandon Grandpa. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z ‘Same old Jean Louise. Remember when she—?’” He put down the salt shaker. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then they came upon it from a turn in the road and they stopped and stood with the salt wind blowing in their hair where they’d lowered the hoods of their coats to listen. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Bet salt water is looking better and better,” she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I look down to see I’ve poured salt all over the table. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Thousands of slaves still toiled on vast estates in the hills, growing wheat and olives, herding sheep and goats, and mining salt and copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Smoked ham, bacon, a bucket of salt mackerel, flour, cornmeal, grits, raw sweet potatoes, lard, coffee, a tin of butter, some store bread, and a can of beaten biscuits that Dunse’s mama made. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I watched Matant Jo just shake some salt and pepper onto it and wondered what else she was planning on doing to it since salt and pepper is hardly enough for a whole turkey. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “We have not been able to get salt or sugar.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The fish and chips are delicious with vinegar and salt and the lemonade is tart in our throats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Ain’t you got rice and peas and salt pork where you come from?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of each table there are two china dishes, one with salted nuts, the other with mixed candies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Glancing down, Kendra saw that the two-inch dune of salt surrounding the bed indeed marked the line the goblin could not cross. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His wet wool clung to him sodden and itching, his neck and shoulders ached fiercely from the weight of mail and sword, and he was sick of salt cod, salt beef, and hard cheese. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The end was nowhere in sight inside Camp 14, which was self- sufficient except for occasional trainloads of salt. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The night air was crisp and smelled faintly of salt. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of salt and fish and motor oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther down, below the salt, were others that Reek knew by sight if not by name: sworn swords and seijeants, soldiers and gaolers and torturers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Please put some salt in a bag. A quarter of that packet.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Roy lay on his belly, blinked the salt from his eyes, and waited. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had brains I would have splashed water on the bow all day and drying, it would have made salt, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the sons of thralls and salt wives. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ophie didn’t know who would have known to do that, but she went to the door and brushed the salt aside with her hand. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z At the nearby open-air market, she bargained for fish, chicken, rice, vegetables, and salt. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Then I remembered what Papa had said, and I stopped myself from falling into the whiff of salt air and flying off with the seagulls like some dreamy flower girl. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He held his wet hand up and watched the salt sea drip from it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And we children sat huddled shoulder to shoulder on the blanket, reaching into the grocery sack full of bologna sandwiches, which we hungrily ate salted with sand from our fingers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt professional salt gatherers have better ways to purify their salt, but I had no clue what these might be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After every wet crossing, I would shake like a dog and wring out my clothes as best I could so they dried in ridges white with salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z One time, Papa said, when he and Mama had first settled there, they’d run clean out of salt and had to beat up pieces of the rock and boil them in water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The sweat run in my eyes and in my mouth, and I taste salt. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The taste of salt spray nearly gags me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The cabbage is soft and hot and there are plenty of potatoes with butter and salt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If boats like that come back empty, what can you expect from a plywood skiff with one pitiful bucket of salted herring for bait? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z During the end of March and most of April, my father caught and salted alewives for crab bait, overhauled the motor on the Portia Sue, and converted it once more for crabbing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Years of wind and no rain had finally stripped the valley down to dark gray clay, where only the bluish salt bush could grow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mother says yellow papaya tastes lovely dipped in chili salt. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It lay at the outskirts of the town, on low ground, like a rubbish dump, and as I walked up and down the gravel paths, I could smell the stagnant salt marshes in the distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Richard makes me a plate of plantain and oatmeal, since the salt fish is still stewing. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She liked to eat meat and salt and chocolate and grease. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z With her earnings Irawaddy was able to buy rice and salt, and milk for the child, who was too weak for anything else. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z His scent finds me from where he stands—salt, sand, and the seas: the comforting scents that waft inside my windows in the morning when I open them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The air smells of salt and seawater, braided with cold breezes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z How much better it had smelled when Mosca made spaghetti, even if he always put too much salt in the water and let the sauce bum. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Toward the sea there are salt marshes and very few roads. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He wanted to scream at the doctor then, but the words choked him and he coughed up his own tears and tasted their salt in his mouth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “All we need is ice, and some salt to keep the temperature low.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I wipe the salt water and rain from my face, deter- mined. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Every few weeks, UN workers would deliver the rations of rice, beans, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and a flour mixture called sosoma, made of soybeans, sorghum, and corn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I don’t need to be silent to see the salt that begins to shine in Miss Joe’s eyes. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “You may think salt is sufficient protection, but you children are forgetful. Better to go without. As for dancing, once begun, you mortals will dance yourselves to death if we don’t prevent it.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Dad had made his famous salt roast, which was my favorite dish, but I had no appetite. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As in: Mom doesn’t want Dad eating salt, because too much of it increases the volume of blood, which can cause hypertension. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z “It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that ‘Pass the salt, Walt.’ Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Dad, “a man of science,” told us to take every bit of superstitious hogwash that came out of his mother’s mouth with a grain of salt. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Whether it was the sea’s salt water or my own, it wouldn’t help with what came next. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “After your mama cooks this,” he said, “tell her to take the marrow out, spread it on a piece of bread with pepper, salt, and make a nice samwish for you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He sounds as though he’s just asked someone to pass the salt. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I would have to go to work in the salt mines this time.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to breathe in the salt air and let the water wash the dust off my body and rinse the fear from my soul. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Sarah arranges the cutlery and salt and pepper shakers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z If she didn’t, he would walk home with his coat wrapped about him, a tang of salt in his mouth. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Do they need to add, say, a bit more salt? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As if the expense and trouble were not irksome enough, all and sundry insisted on salting Ned's wound by calling it "the Hand's tourney," as if he were the cause of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mack and the boys would have thought anyone who traveled without salt, pepper, and coffee very silly indeed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her salt- and-pepper hair turned completely gray and her robust figure sprang a slow leak, so that she seemed to be deflating day by day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z How did they grow maize in a salt marsh, anyway? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He knew I had nowhere to go for the winter vacation and enjoyed rubbing salt in my wounds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I cry, and hug myself, and laugh, letting out salt tears, he he! till I fall down gasping and sobbing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant had been asking ten pennies for half a pound of salt, fifteen for a loaf of sugar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa and the other men traveled to a trading post to barter for tea, sugar, salt, cloth, and matches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spice locker they found peppercorns, cloves, and cinnamon, mustard seeds, coriander, sage and clary sage and parsley, blocks of salt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As she puts tomatoes into boxes, she hallucinates that she is slicing open a juicy one and sprinkling it with salt. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Herds of elephants go inside Kitum Cave at night to obtain minerals and salts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had heard the doctor tell the white nurse to irrigate my head with Epsom salts and warm water every two or three hours or I wouldn’t make it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For Christmas, Carol gives me some Friendship’s Garden bath salts and Grace gives me a coloring book of Virginia Mayo. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Along the way I buy us some hot chips with lots of salt and vinegar. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z An hour and a half into our trip, the faint smell of salt pours in through the tiny cracks in the bus windows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Wind lifts my hair, scrubs sand and salt against my skin, invades my nose. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Ophie reached for the small packet of salt and the iron nail in her pocket and nodded, the barest movement. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Colonists grilled the birds, stewed them with salt pork, and baked them into pies; they plucked their feathers to stuff mattresses, pickled them in barrels as a winter treat, and fed them to livestock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And then, through the musk of animals and the stink of their waste, he smelled the clean tang of salt water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Hiroshi’s house is so close to the water I can practically taste the salt in the air. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She rubbed salt into it: I’m thoughtless, all right. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Faint smell of salt and creosote coming in off the bay. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Some sort of underground salt lake? I didn’t think Alabama had these.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I added some Old Sour, with a dash of salt for good measure, and stirred. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Salt in wounds, salt water in wounds, was supposed to help them heal. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes stung with the salt of my sweat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As a half-moon crept up the sky, they staked their horses out in the village commons and supped on salted mutton, dried f apples, and hard cheese. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Every so often she’d lift a vial and swirl it, then walk to Miss Peregrine and pass it under her beak—much the way smelling salts are waved under the nose of someone who’s fainted. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The salt taste was back in his mouth and he was so agitated by what he believed, hoped, he would find there, he had to put his hands on warm stone to dry them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom takes the yogurt she makes herself and cuts cucumbers into it with salt and pepper. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And Dad can’t eat foods with too much salt because Mom told him he cant. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Flour, sugar, salt, eggs, milk, butter, baking powder, cinnamon. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z My grandmother leans back in her brown chair, her feet still in the Epsom salts water, her fingers tapping out some silent tune. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Bessie put the salt beef and milk and the rest of the supper makings on the family’s account. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I measured the flour and the salt and the baking powder, and the whole time, Betty Allen was standing at the counter opposite me humming under her breath. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The Dead Sea water was so prickly with salt, it stung Liyana’s eyes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She could hear him peeling the egg, then a faint silvery clink as he picked up the salt spoon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He could smell the spray, salt moistness, being driven ahead of the storm—it must be a storm. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he knew that be wanted the salt— just as his fingers were beginning to reach for it—they handed it to him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z With consequences for her too — who could imagine her salting a mother-in-law’s soup just so? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I smell the salt upon the sea, a strong magnetic pull. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There were jams and bundles of herbs and dried meats studded with spices and cracked salt. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I couldn’t look away, frozen as still as a pillar of salt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The air still carried the rotten smells of vomit and death, but also the fresh odor of seaweed and moss and cedar and salt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It still has her five-dollar bill stuck under the salt shaker, a half-empty cup of coffee, a dirty fork and an empty place mat with syrup stains. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z She pulled off his shirt and he pulled off hers, and the bra with it, lingering over her breasts, tasting the salt and sweet of her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His jeans were wet with sea water to the thighs and where it was drying the white salt rings were forming. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Pouring in salt to keep the ice cold is Justin’s job—but it’s so frigid today, I can’t imagine anything melting. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The bulky creature with the underbite tried to beat Seth to the bed, arriving too late and receiving a violent shock as it collided with the invisible salt barrier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z What brought me to was not the whiff of smelling salts but a half bucket of cold water thrown in my face. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I did not try to treat its wound with herbs because salt water heals and the herbs would have washed off anyway. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z So they laid broomsticks across their doors at night and sprinkled salt on porch steps. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And the same salt waters of the oceans are drawn by the sun to the heavens, and in turn become again the waters of the moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It fell away slowly beneath them as they rode past smoky peat fires, lines of horses, and wagons heavy-laden with hardbread and salt beef. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Thistlewood learned the lesson of terror early on: He witnessed a master who had caught a runaway first whip him, then rub pepper, salt, and lime into his wounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Duff McAvoy’s lips were incredibly soft, and he smelled faintly of the earth and salt air. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z His back is wet with sweat, and when he kisses me, he tastes like salt. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A spray of salt water broke across the boat, dousing the marines there; the phosphorescence boiled up green and luminous against the darkness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There is plenty of salt and butter in the potatoes and I wonder if there’s any chance Minnie could be my mother so that I could eat like this all the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He recollected that on a good day in winter, when the maple trees stood bare, he could look through his dormer window out beyond the trees and see the green salt water to the southwest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A bunch of white teenagers stand behind the five protesters on their stools, jeering and jabbing, pouring ketchup and mustard and salt all over their heads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Someone says we should let him sit in the sun, shave his skin open little by little, and rub salt into the wounds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Grooms dashed everywhere, rushing for ice, Epsom salts, and liniment. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And I turned away, shivering, surprised to realize that I was in my nightshirt still, drenched myself, my own hair full of sand and salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “My feet they are terrible today. Did you get the Epsom salts?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z To make the water potable, the Maya laid a layer of crushed limestone atop the sediments, effectively paving over the salt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The salt from my tears mingles with the blood on my lips. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The salt stings my tongue, makes me thirsty. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to recognize and grasp the form of some things, because they are small and simple, like a grain of salt, or repetitive, like a wall made of bricks of the same size. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They were the weak wicks from fishermen’s cottages, who had risen early to catch a ride in the complicated creeks of the salt marsh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I think back to all the times I’ve heard Grandma nag at him about his blood pressure and not eating too much salt. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z One of the teenagers, Dan Daniels’s son Scott, took a three-step running start, threw out to sea, then pitched headlong into the salt water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Black brothers were folding their tents, feeding their horses, and chewing on strips of salt beef. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He smelled of fire smoke, salt breezes, and man. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He had returned, he said, because he had forgotten to take his Epsom salts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I added the sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt to the mixer and turned it on. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The air smelled of salt and frying fish, of hot tar and honey, of incense and oil and sperm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And her friends tsk and shake their heads the same way they’ve seen their mothers do over meals of lemongrass tea and salt fish and fungi. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Besides his captives, Ser Gregor was bringing back a dozen pigs, a cage of chickens, a scrawny milk cow, and nine wagons of salt fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He’d gone to Kinshasa with a pirogue full of fish and traded it all for three bags of salt and a hunk of soap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Long Island area included within the gypsy moth spraying in 1957 consisted chiefly of heavily populated towns and suburbs and of some coastal areas with bordering salt marsh. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Let me get two chicken and mambo sauce, with extra salt on the fries.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Elbow macaroni with heaps of butter and salt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Sarah wiped the salt water off her forehead and moved a few steps away from Justin. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He started thinking about the properties of wood and the corrosiveness of salt water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I shout to the Attendant in the aisle, but she drops her sidearm and runs, the girl with the smelling salts close behind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The tag was like a salt cracker, perforated down its middle so that a strong man could snap it in two with his bare hands. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Every football game rubbed a healthy dose of salt in the communal wound—and since all of those games were lost, it doubled the pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We made two more pots of graveyard dirt mixed with brick dust and some rock salt; then we poured it in a wide circle all around the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I throw a little salt in the saucepan with the vegetables. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Barbecue, sour cream and onion, salt and vinegar, cheddar ranch, flaming hot, and I tried to figure out which would be the one that could be most easily beaten by a stick of gum. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They tasted unusual, and when I asked her if she had put in anything extra, she said cheese and garlic salt. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Albert offers a second helping, offers salt, offers sherry again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "Well, I am. A pretty good one too," I bragged, tossing the seeds in my mouth, then casually slapping my hand against my thigh to brush the salt off. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I held it to my face and smelled the back of Ben’s wagon, spice and yeast with the bitter tang of acids and chemical salts mingled in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We ate them with salt I brought out from a pocket in my cloak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sitting in the dark next to Hassan, I had always wondered if it was true what I’d read, that sea air smelled like salt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The first light of morning—a wintry orange hue dappling the sky— appeared high and far in the distance above the salt water, faint beyond the leaded windows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I sprinkled some of the salt from my pocket where my teeth marks were and bit again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the city, Yoren had loaded up the wagons with salt fish, hard bread, lard, turnips, sards of beans and barley, and wheels of yellow cheese, but every bite of it had been eaten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Olanna was surprised; of course she would not find salt here; there was hardly salt anywhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was no rice on the chart, no beans, no salted codfish. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Trash bagged, cleaning done—he had even wiped the small countertop next to the sink with a towel dampened in salt water—there wasn’t a single thing left to do. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z When the Lambs visit, salt and pepper magically turn into "the condiments." Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z And anyway, the salted shells would only make him thirsty. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Well,” I said, the dried salt was making my skin itch and adding to my irritation, “what are you going to do with them, then? We can’t keep them here. You said so yourself.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt powdered his face and got into his mouth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, together, we sprinkled salt all over the skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Aunt Rose had said that the salt and iron would keep a ghost from possessing her, but she hadn’t said anything about their ability to turn a body’s blood to ice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the sports car, as they drove through the salt marshes that led back to the coast, Mrs. Levy, pulling her blowing fur up closer around her neck said, “I’m establishing a foundation.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened the top bureau drawer and examined the bottles which constituted the medicine chest of the house— paregoric, Pain Killer, Lydia Pinkham, iron wine tonic, Hall’s Cream Salve, Epsom salts, castor oil, ammonia. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Garvey ignored the question as he laid out salt, flour, eggs, baking soda, a bottle of water, sugar, butter, and molasses. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I blink hard to keep the tears in my eyes from falling, but I taste their salt anyway. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z My lips turn to salt and start to quiver at the thought of being stared at. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Who knows how much they have kept for themselves to sell? We never have salt here because they keep all the salt to trade.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Carrying the Epsom salts and a piece of the baklava wrapped in cellophane, I came out of the house and walked along the portico past the courtyard and bathhouse to the guesthouse behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My face was almost too swollen for me to ask for salt water to wash my mouth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Why would they live like this for salt beef, hardtack, and twelve dollars a month? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes smart from the sweetness of the gardenia tree and the salt of the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My house is tall and the shingles are gray because of the salt from the sea. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z She’d get mad and hit me if I crossed her or sassed her, and I’d do meany things to her, like tripping her up or putting sugar in her salt cellar. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Now they found that salt water had gotten into it. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “I heard once about a man who was so hungry he salted and peppered himself and swallowed himself whole!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z On top of this the horse chewed up vitamin blocks as fast as Onofre could pitch them in, and of course the animal was always licking away at a salt block. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The white fog rolled on past me towards the house smelling of damp salt and sea-weed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Getting late now. You heard the siren. I smell the harbor on the wind, sea and salt, and maybe—is that smoke I smell, too?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He tried carrying both the shovel and the twenty-pound bag of rock salt, but couldn’t manage it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z My mother not being an islander and the islanders not being acquainted with pianos, no one realized at the beginning the effect of damp salt air on the instrument. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Potatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, and carrots were all dumped together in a roasting pan with olive oil, salt, and pepper. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I washed the blood off, put some salt on it and tied it with a cloth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They ate cold salt beef, hard bread, and harder cheese, and slept clothed and huddled beneath a pile of cloaks and fun, grateful for each other's warmth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Others immersed the carcasses in long vats of salt water murky with the blood and fluids of the cattle that had come before them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A couple of wood crates with the salt girl holding her umbrella painted on top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Grayish green salt bushes had taken over the areas between the crisscross of big arroyos. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z By the third day after the fire, the Lockton house was packed tighter than a barrel of salt cod and smelled worse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I filled my bag with a dried bay leaf, a shiny new penny, a piece of pecan tree bark, and a handful of salt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z If you look an angry black momma in her eyes, there’s a chance you will turn into a pillar of salt on the spot, like ol’ girl in the Bible. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Near them, half-moon lobster traps bleached under the heat of the sun, the salt dried to white streaks along their boards, their rope netting stiff and a bit ragged. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “And salt. Too much wind in the spell.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z With salt air biting at his face, he turned and glanced at Edwin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Next, I boiled half of the remaining salt pork. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even if I have seen it I don’t need to be handed the salt” But they still looked at him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We marched down salt stairs, we crawled along salt floors, we passed stalagmites formed from salt water dripping off the ceiling. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t just salt water, though, right? It was ocean water.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Her mother began pulling spices from the cabinet—salt, pepper, paprika, thyme, and oregano. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There was a kind of salted fish which is delicious with rice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of salt and dead fish. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Already at the tables, a group that had arrived still earlier was singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in order that they might use the salt and pepper and ketchup there. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z No gloves, no cover for her hair, and her face rough and red from weeks of salt wind. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Both their food rations consist only of watery rice soup and salted fish. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With red eyes inflamed by wind and salt spray, they stared ahead into the ocean, anxious for a sight of land, licking their cracked lips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I think for a moment what I do know of herbicides, ranging from less toxic solutions like vinegar, salt, and dish soap to something like Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Washed away on a tide of soap, salt and castor oil. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, Djo, the doctor think you got a little too much taste of salt. So drink water now. I will sing you to sleep. The rest of the story can wait till tomorrow.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Finally she said she loved him as meat loves salt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She felt for the iron and salt that she always kept in her apron pocket, the bundle a reassuring weight in her hand. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Gallons of lard, flour, salt, powdered eggs and powdered milk. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had placed a thick band of salt across the threshold just inside the bedroom door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He rolled down the window an inch or two and breathed the salt air blowing in over the marshes from the Gulf. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And again he breathed in the green in the strawberry runners, the rain in the cedar duff, and the salt water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z At some point the lake water just changed to salt water. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The old thick walls sucked in coat after coat of whitewash made with lime in salt water, which, as it dried, seemed to have a luminosity of its own. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple of loaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, paraffin, and a bit of money for each. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As to the forces that held the chains together, the best guess seemed to be salt bridges in which divalent cations like Mg++ held together two or more phosphate groups. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The santero shakes a box of salt on its head, then pours honey over the offering. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There, with the cold stone at my back and my arms about his neck, I tasted the salt of his tears and I consoled him with all the strength of my body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then he hauls out a frying pan from under his coat, and a handful of salt as well as a lump of fat from his pocket. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the magnesium salts will help to keep you young.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never mind. I could use a salt solution, I guess.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He laughed and took a mouthful of salt water in the process, then continued. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The hot night was laden with the scent of flowers and with the salt smell of the sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay there like some sort of insect, maybe a slug with fresh salt poured on him, disintegrating slowly. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I seasoned it with salt, pepper, and sage, then warmed a loaf of flatbread near the fire and broke open the wax on the cheese. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was so realistic, I could hear the waves and smell the salt water. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Before bathing he would perfume the pool with the salts that he carried in three alabaster flacons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I’d honestly thought such a thing couldn’t happen, the way water could not run uphill or salt could not taste sweet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When we’d finished the food, August produced four bottles of ice-cold Coca-Cola from the refrigerator, along with four little packages of salted peanuts. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a box of salt that was so shot up it was all over the room. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion reached a thumb and forefinger into the salt dish, and sprinkled a healthy pinch over his meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I’ve gotten my own ingredients from the supermarket, so I peel cassava, slice plantains, boil the salt out of dried fish. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He found the divine nymph alone; Odysseus as usual was on the sandy shore letting his salt tears flow while he gazed at the empty sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Out here, there was salt on the wind itself that fell on your skin like rain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He crouched and wiped away the gray salt and looked in but he could see nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And salt spray blows in from the barrier where the ocean waits for its rising-tide strength to permit it back into the Great Tide Pool again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of sea salt tickles my nose. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Later on, the Yao captured and traded us to the Portuguese in exchange for guns, gold, and salt. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Only four lashes and I feel as if my skin has been torn open and drenched in salt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z To bring Garfield from the faint, the doctor gave him smelling salts and brandy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "I—I thought salty water would taste nice, since food usually tastes better with salt," I sputter. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Ha, any badger worth its salt knows all about the moon. Do you want me to recite all its phases? I can, you know.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The stew was thick with barley, carrot, and onion, with here and there a ragged shred of salt beef, softened in the cooking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Bite back your tongue,” scolded my mother when I cried loudly, yanking her hand toward the store that sold bags of salted plums. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter cut off pieces from the deer and put them in a pan and Miss Trotter salted the pieces. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When she licked it, it tasted of salt. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the king's favorite dish, but this time it has been cooked with no salt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It rains very little in the Dutch West Indies unless there is a hurricane, and water from the few wells has a heavy salt content. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She put the spoon down and took up an enormous saltshaker and sprinkled salt into the kettle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “And the people who put us in this thing have all the salt they want.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I lick at the sweat on my arms, knowing that my need for salt will be as great as my need for water. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If true, then before serious model building began, a decision would have to be made whether the chains would be held together by hydrogen bonds or by salt linkages involving the negatively charged phosphate groups. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It would not be bad to eat with a little lime or with lemon or with salt. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew their carefully combed hair all out of order, and the salt spray covered their bodies, so they arrived at the dock looking as they ordinarily did, except their grandmother. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Bright tropic sunlight and ocean salt breezes bathed him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I knew the barman and sat on a high stool and ate salted almonds and potato chips. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then we looked at each other, or the table, or the salt and pepper shakers, for what, seemed like a very long time. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He would savor every tear she shed and replace that sweet green flower scent with the salt of her sorrow on his tongue. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He only tasted the salt and heard the hunter’s horn in Guitar’s voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The sand is so warm beneath me, and the ocean and salt spray and plum-colored breeze is so calming, that I tell him the story about my uncle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Next, he gave Mrs. Moss instructions about gargling with warm salt water. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z When she saw her clothing, all rags now encrusted with drying salt, she clutched the tatters, feeling the ruined cloth with her fingers, and then relinquished it all, turning her face to the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Rafik wished he could do his homework sitting straight up in the salt of the Dead Sea. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We ate honey straight from the hive and green plums sprinkled with salt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Shambling a couple of steps away from the well, she squatted down and sniffed at the ground where Seth had thrown his salt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z After storing the plastic tubs beneath the counter, the man unscrews the tops to a dozen salt and pepper shakers, paying no attention to me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He discovered a small blue-and-white ceramic box hidden in the corner behind some jars of sugar and salt. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She could smell salt in the air, which brought back memories of going to the ocean with Ellie and Sol as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Once Grace pulled in at the shopping center, though, she realized that she had made a huge mistake, one much bigger than salt and pepper shakers. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We ran around the cabin looking for salt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “And apparently, the only seasoning is salt. Is this supposed to be some kind of desi dish?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I could smell the honey that had dripped on my hands, the damp ground under me, and the salt of the ocean. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s somersaults, not summer salts,” I said, rolling my eyes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My eyes are starting to sting with salt water. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Welcome to hell’s baby brother,” Chacho said, scuffing puffs of salt with his feet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She fixed a glass of hot salt water. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Cico reached into a clump of grass and brought out a long, thin salt cedar branch with a spear at the end. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Zaire is a tall young man tossing salt over his shoulder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “People like me are always thinking about still having an accent,” I said, trying to remember the operation of the salt, the liquor, the lime. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And all this time, in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait—Skylla to port and on our starboard beam Kharybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "Terrible woman! Giving her opinion on everything. But your sister is secretive. I don't understand it. Pass the salt, will you?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Under the frozen heat of his glance they tripped over doorsills and dropped the salt cellar into the yolks of their poached eggs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes and no,” he said in his rock salt rasp. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I’ve already tried with spiders. And parsley and salt. The old woman’s proof against them all.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her only worry about the salt was that her sweaty hands were going to turn it to paste. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I brought groceries from the store; twice he came to the back door as I was leaving the eggs and asked for specific things—he had run out of salt; he needed cooking oil. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Gradually the citizens of Wethersfield claimed their orders, the merchants from Hartford counted off the barrels of nails and oil and salt and only a handful of idlers still stood about. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “If we caught a lot we could salt them down.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hatsue, sitting on her ankles, twisted the salt water out of her hair so that it dripped along her arm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Asking to show his new girlfriend around Reyna’s city was rubbing salt in a wound. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They are shaped Like trumpets, The blow of salt On your lips When you raise One to your mouth. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a popped bubble, the walls spilled inward, no longer plaster and wood, but a downpour of salt water. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I wish the boy were here and that I had some salt,” he said aloud. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I investigate the sacks from Mrs. Krawiecka, and there are four kilos of beans, four kilos of flour, kasha, butter, salt, a sack of potatoes, and two cabbages. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z After he had caught and salted his crab bait, he did a little fishing to pass the days and even some house repairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It tastes like a mix of glue, chalk, and salt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Cubes of it with salt and pepper, showered in a rain of purple gravy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I get my last bucket of salt herring from the cooler in the shack and put it under the middle seat in the skiff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Others gathered the remains into shrines for secretive, candlelit prayers to the dead, whose powers are recognized by alcohol and cigarettes. salt marsh at the mouth of the Supe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He held out one hand before him although there was nothing on that salt heath to collide with. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “I miss him,” Lorraine sighed, sprinkling salt into the boiling water. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z But someone would usually slip a piece of hard bread, cheese, jerked beef, or salt fish and johnnycake in the pocket of his jacket as it hung on its hook. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood his ground, and when the satyr was a couple of steps away, he flung a fistful of salt at the goatman. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I cannot find salt anywhere, no salt at all,” Alice said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After a while she dragged herself to the new homemade flush toilet and tried to vomit the salts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Just as water evaporating in a glass leaves behind a film of salts and minerals, water evaporating from irrigation channels leaves deposits in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Or perhaps the salt was from your own lips. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I wipe away the salt and tears and mascara that ran down my face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The fisheries of fresh and salt water are a resource of great importance, involving the interests and the welfare of a very large number of people. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was the taste of salt and the heat of her breathing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Even in the snowstorm it smelled of salt and tar and more faintly of diesel fuel and rotting lumber. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The corn, on which I’d rubbed some olive oil and sprinkled salt and pepper, would take only a few minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I go downstairs early, and it's only me and the dirt, which I now realize has a gritty top, like someone sprinkled coarse sea salt on a gray cracker. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Very tall and very thin, the Lord of Raventree had a hook nose, long hair, and a ragged salt-and-pepper beard that showed more salt than pepper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ivanito helps her blend the coconut with egg yolks, vanilla, condensed milk, sugar, cornstarch, and salt, and holds the empty tin vegetable- oil containers while she fills them with the mixture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “After we harvest the plankton, the brine is evaporated and the salt is processed for sale. These are the highest salt mountains in the world. People come from all over to admire them.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mama gave me this before I left Virginia, a long, long time ago. And I suppose you already figured that I’ve got some salt.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z But from his time in the underground cell, Shin remembered how Uncle had rubbed salted cabbage soup into his wounds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I know all about fish, fresh water and salt.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “You wanted me to cook the turkey just like that? With salt and pepper and put the whole thing in the oven?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He had dipped his hand in its waves and licked the salt from his fingers. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He lay silent, racked beyond endurance, salt drying on his face, with nothing in him any more, no lust, no fear, no shame, no hope. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She came running with smelling salts, but she got it too close to her mistress’s nose. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the first week they killed and roasted a deer, but they agreed to eat only half of it and salt the rest for the days that lay ahead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The wind picked up, and Alex could taste salt breeze intermixed with the familiar ash. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Hmmm. You should. White lithium salt. I thought of it three span before you came to us. It is good so far, twenty- four days and I expect many more.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “What happens when they turn out my pockets? What happens when they rip my stockings? What happens when they scatter my salt in the dirt?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A well-worn green cloak, stained by salt and spray and faded from the sun, draped his thin shoulders, over brown doublet and breeches that matched brown eyes and hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We stopped on an elephant trail that led into the cave, beside a wall of rock that was covered with diagonal hatch marks made by the elephants tusking the rocks for salt. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That cap in my hand, its rim of crusty salt stain against the dark-blue background, made me almost lose it for a second, but I didn't let myself. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I could also make salt from hickory limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A typical meal consisted of raw salt pork, bread, and soup, and sometimes molasses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The kapos sent us back to our places, and I chipped away at the salt wall again until they told me to stop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z After a day of cleaving rock salt from the innards of the mountain, finding him standing there with six guards hadn’t improved her mood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Traders came to his village with clothing items, rice, and other cooking ingredients to exchange for salt and fish, so he didn’t need to go anywhere. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The tugging sensation became more intense, painful even, but there was something exhilarating about seeing all that salt water. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I bled them clean and the salt water will heal them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z To see it in person was just as shocking on my system as a whiff of smelling salts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Had I been raised with the tradition of stuffed animals, I would have hugged my bear or stuffed dog or rabbit, salting the ragged fur with my tears all night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But most of these things, except perhaps the salt and sugar, would not keep forever, even though I did not use them up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He greeted Rebeca in the dining room, tied the dogs up in the courtyard, hung the rabbits up in the kitchen to be salted later, and went to the bedroom to change his clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Next I went to the smokehouse and cut off a piece of salt pork. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next eighteen months, this indefatigable machine would produce two thousandths of a gram of plutonium, a quantity about the size of a grain of salt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Hard bread, hard cheese, oat cakes, salt cod, salt beef, salt mutton, and a skin of sweet wine to rinse all that salt out of my mouth. I will not die of hunger.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now Penelope sank down, holding the weapon on her knees, and drew her husband’s great bow out, and sobbed and bit her lip and let the salt tears flow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Four thousand gallons of salt water surged out of the swimming pool, dousing me and Kronos and everyone on the deck. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Some people said it contained spells for turning salt into gold and men into rats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Ay no,” my mother said, “the ground is frozen. Your father has been home two weeks—only the salt trucks are out.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He shaped the ends with the knife and sanded them smooth with salt and he stained them with soot until they were the color of lead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “There was salt all over Richard’s mother’s room. I found that curious, so I swept it up. Do you know anything about that?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He knocked off more salt and pepper shakers, then tipped over a table, yelping in fright, and, fangs bared, he repeatedly charged at the crazies gathered outside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up and saw them—hundreds and hundreds of tiny flecks of light, strewn like spilled salt across the blackness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her feed was scattered across the floor.“You’re right that the salt didn’t seem to be working,” Seth said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Basically, salt and sugar!” she says, chuckling as she types notes into a laptop on the side table. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “About fifteen or twenty miles, nothing a determined person cannot do. We will carry our Nigerian coins and buy salt and garri and then walk back to the lorry.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Not in the first tomato off the vine, split open and salted lightly, which her grandmother put before her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A day like that you can feel summer in the air, and the smell of cut grass, and the sting of salt from the harbor. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I squinted through the salt spray and saw that the cage had come to rest between what looked like two fins jutting from the monster’s back, one smaller and one larger. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z What would she call him if he threw the glass salt and pepper angels across the room? Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z There’re the restaurants that smell like the salted stew beef and boiled plantain my mom liked so much. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He sat down beside Heqet, eying the chunk of golden cheese, the two loaves, the salt fish and the figs spread out on his friend’s lap. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Taking a man as thrall or a woman as a salt wife, that was right and proper, but men were not goats or fowl to be bought and sold for gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He slipped beneath the docks, bobbing in the salt water, and listened. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Day or night, the benches below the salt were never less than half-full with men drinking, dicing, talking, or sleeping in their clothes in quiet comers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z From where we sit, we can taste the salt in the air and see the lights of downtown Los Angeles reflected on the water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I have my little knife with me, cold iron, tucked into one of the pockets of my skirt, and more salt than I reasonably need. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Afterwards, during her cooking lesson, she was still shaking so bad, she couldn’t even measure the salt in a spoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I take Daddy’s hankie and wipe my forehead, press salted ice to my wrists. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Bread and wine, water, oil, salt, and ash—through ceremonies of guilt and redemption, sorrow and rebirth, through the passing liturgical year, my boyhood assumed all significance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The glory spread, the salt marsh growing visible below. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was heavy and wet, smelled like seaweed and salt. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I shock myself by wanting to touch my tongue to his chest, to taste the sun and salt on his skin. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My face burned and the salt trickled down my cheek but I wouldn’t utter a sound. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z "There's no salt, my dear, but if you shake this on, it will do the trick. A little basil, a little mountain thyme—my own receipt." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Taking deep breaths that filled his nostrils with the tang of salt and seaweed, he struck out for the shimmering, shrinking light now moving deeper into the cliff. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In the air, I could feel the big salt where it kissed the beach. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I even planted some milkweed, violets, and wispy salt grass for the caterpillars—you know, when butterflies are in the larval stage. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z No more riding in the hold with barrels of salt cod. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She was shocked when her doctor pointed out the salt content. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We all reached for the salt at the same time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z His coarse graying hair is matted with salt air and there’s a lump the size of a baseball on the back of his neck. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Showed ’em to the latrine, showed them new ones the trail to the salt chuck, showed ’em the best place for butter clams. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And there was a strange smell they didn’t recognize, a salt smell like blood. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But now she was crying, too, and when she leaned in to kiss Maya, Maya could taste the white-hot salt of their tears mingling together. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There was salt in the bottom of its glass bowl with the kerosene, to keep the kerosene from exploding, and there were bits of red flannel among the salt to make it pretty. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The salts were emitting rays of some sort. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Also a fork, spoon, knife, salt, pepper, sugar. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In addition to vegetables and fruits, they eat insects, grass, roots, and small pieces of clay, which they chew and swallow, perhaps to get salt and minerals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t the señor know that salt water would purify the book and banish disease? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Smells of night, earth, and salt air were cooling my temples. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Charles fried salt pork, warmed up a skillet of beans, fried eggs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Like not quite ripe strawberries covered with the light salt sweat of running days and hopping, skipping, jumping hours. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The docks crawl with laughing drunks and sailors stinking of sweat and salt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In return, we present them with burlap bags of salt and a few kilos of precious soap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Elbows with butter and salt, meatballs, and red sauce. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Salt water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water, around twenty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, depending on the concentration of salt and other minerals. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The cart rolled slowly at first because it was solar powered, but as the sun rose higher and flooded the salt flats, it picked up speed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes against the salt sting and kept on. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The floor was already damp, and a sheen of salt water hung in the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z My body developed a revulsion for salt that I still experience to this day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And so I went into salt production for several days, and chipped out a niche inside the tree in which to store it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I packed five salted game hens and three tins of foie gras with cornichons,” Horace said bitterly, “and this is what survives our shipwreck.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Dri rinsed the gas jug and filled it halfway with salt water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted them to care about the smell of a spice or the taste of a new kind of salt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It doesn't hurt, and anyhow I sort of like the taste of salt in my mouth, it makes me feel awake. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I surfaced, splashing, my eyes seared with salt. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “It has to pick out every grain of salt before it can wear the skin again,” Doc said, his voice a tobacco-scented whisper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “See, you didn’t speak to me,” Humble says, pouring the salt on his chicken, looking at me through eyes surrounded by thin and purple-hued skin, as if he got punched in both a week ago. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The chicken made straight for the bed, and Seth tossed his other handful of salt in a wide arc to cover their retreat, scalding the flying centipede in the process. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The village was quietly asleep and the stars above filled the sky like spilled salt on dried seaweed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z We watched as he fried the onion in a big pan and sprinkled in some mustard seed, garlic, salt, cumin, turmeric, and chopped ginger. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I lick my split lip—salt and blood and tears. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z What would Franklin D. Roosevelt say about a spy who lost his shoe in the salt marsh and worried aloud that his grandma would beat him? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was on a dark heath, and there was a strange salt smell in the air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The water evaporated against Hatsue’s skin, leaving a residue of salt behind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The salt water stung her eyes so she closed them tightly until she broke through the surface. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Mine feel like someone has thrown salt in them. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I like corn, but only if it’s alone, sprinkled with salt and doused in butter. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Jam had her head on his shoulder, and Redemption smelled like cut grass and salt and himself. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The salt went on eating everything with its million hungry mouths. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As likely as not, salt water had leaked in. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lucas was sure to bring us bags of unshelled pecans covered in sugar and salt, and maybe a few ripe peaches. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A porter trotted at their heels, pushing a wheelbarrow heaped high with provisions: salt and flour, fresh-churned butter, slabs of bacon wrapped in linen, sacks of oranges, apples, and pears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And then his mother, sprinkling salt on a baked potato, said ever so casually, “You don’t happen to know anyone looking for a lost cat, do you?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I don’t have to trust them in order to help them, she thought, and I have my salt and nail. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I returned, sought the sponge on the washstand, the salts in my drawer, and once more retraced my steps. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She smelled the soldier’s coarse soap, the salt of his perspiring back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A gray salt spittle lagging and curling in the rock pool. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He cursed himself as he walked down to Papi’s office in search of a shovel and rock salt. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Between them, the contents of the broken treasure chest lay exposed in the sand: The mallet and brass disc had gone green with age, half-corroded by time and salt water, but the gong was unmistakable. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Salt spirits or no salt spirits, I need all the luck I can get today. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I did not ask myself why the algae did this, or how, or where the salt went. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe it was that we could see and smell the ocean and the tar, salt, and wood from the wharf. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The child of the union, me, had poured salt in the wound by baptizing the priest in reverse. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So the vast ocean had its will with Aias, drunk in the end on salt spume as he drowned. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But with the sugar-phosphate backbone on the outside, it did not matter which salt was present. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And she briefly remembered her trip to Nantucket at the end of summer last year and the salt of the ocean on her tongue. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z If Miss Trotter had rubbed salt in Ma Charles’s heart, our great-grandmother didn’t let on. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The salt air lay still and heavy that morning, but the western sky was a fiery red, streaked with lowering clouds that glowed as bright as Lannister crimson. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She sprinkled the salt on the earth; she breathed deep into her belly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I reached out to touch the mikveh’s walls, but there were only even greater depths and the bitter taste of salt flooding my mouth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her hair could have used a wash and she had a faded pink scar on her pretty neck, but he liked the smell of her, salt and sweat and woman. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The turkey goes in at ten thirty—covered in butter and salt and pepper and celery and carrots and onions. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z My world was concentration camps and salt mines, starvation and cattle cars. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The resistant sweetness that breaks open at last to deliver peanut butter—the oil and salt which complement the sweet pull of caramel. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The faces around us are mostly brown, with a few white ones sprinkled here and there like salt. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The larders of the Iron Fleet were filling up with smoked hams, salted pork, and bacon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But most of the meat must be salted and smoked and packed away to be eaten in the winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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