Certain it is, however, that no alarm was raised even when the sergeant came to my relief, and in silence, save for the rustling of the foliage as we swayed to this side or that, the battle was continued until I felt the cruel fingers about my throat suddenly relax, while a warm liquid of a peculiar, salty odor poured down over my neck and head.

Be sure and not give me anything salty.

There is rarely much; it usually follows coughing, feels warm, and has a salty taste.

The last glimpse they had of the river was the flood that was pouring out between the jaws of land marking one of the mouths of the Magdalena and making a distinct yellow area in the salty waters of the tropical ocean.

Although an inland sea, with an immense area intervening between it and the nearest ocean, its waters are much more brackish and salty than those of either the Atlantic or the Pacific, and its specific gravity is far greater.

It would be interesting, if it were possible, to explain why it is that the water is so salty.

The taste of the water is salty and pungent, and stings the tongue like saltpetre.

Charlie returned to the bench near the ferry and sat, savoring his coffee, croissant, and the salty air.

A salty breeze drove layers of cloud across the sound as Joe walked down Alaskan Way to the Elliot Bay Book Company.

Chalky cliffs and miles of sand, Ragged reefs and salty caves, And the sparkling emerald waves Faded; and I seemed to stand, Myself a languid Florentine,

The green salt-meadows fling me their salty, sweet perfume, I hear, through miles of dimness, the watchful fog-horn boom; Once more, beneath the blackness of night's great roof-tree high, The wild geese chant their marches athwart the arching sky.

Moran a salty bass.

From the very first qualms I'm in terrible distress; the earth gives way under me, my eyes dilate, I hurriedly swallow quantities of salty saliva; involuntary, ventriloquial cries escape me, my sides bulge out TOBY-DOG, (disgusted) I say, if it's all the same to you, tell me the rest after dinner.

Fishing for fun in salty waters.

The roar of that little car, the occasional parties of pedestrians we passed, crowded into cavities in the salty walls (for the free hour had struck), who shouted to us a friendly good luck, the salt wind whistling past our ears and blowing out our lanterns, made of that final ride one of the most exhilarating that we ever took.

We pitched our tents on old Bar Island, slept on the fragrant hay at night, played ball, and renewed our youth inhaling deep draughts of the salty wind which bloweth in from the sea.

Not that the heat was intense at this season, he explained, but there were other dangers, particularly the brittle salty crust of the sink-hole.

Little mounds in the salty crust made it hard to place a foot on the level.

It was flat, salty, alkali or borax ground, crusted and cracked.

A dry odor pervaded the air, slightly like salty dust.

The lowest spot, called the Sink Hole, lay some miles distant, and was the terminus of this river of salty white.

We were out of the dreadful sands and shadows of Death Valley, its exhausting phantoms, its salty columns, bitter lakes and wild, dreary sunken desolation.

What little water there was had a salty taste, and they could only find here and there a bunch of the poorest grass.

There are depths in this lake from which the salty waters pour forth and are absorbed in the mountains.

At the surface their waters are fresh, a little deeper down they are salty and at the bottom they are heavily charged with salt.