Word: salts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent. The second is one of really weird pathos, and so placed as to gain in power by contrast. No. 4 is very ingeniously contrived and very amusing. The last is "A Bit of Shore-Life," and is refreshingly "salt." It consists of a series of rapid descriptions of shore-life, as vivid as one of Norton's "Marines" strung upon a simple thread of narrative...
...maiden answered, "O goddess-born, having the radiant freshness of youth, I deem not myself worthy of the honor, and my sister's name is not Phoebe but Bridget, and mine 's Mary Ann, and shove us the salt...
INSTRUCTOR (too old a bird to have salt sprinkled on his tail). I did not say, but you can go on where the last man left...
...Salt that has lost its savour...
...Professor Dolbear has recently received from Dubosque, Paris, the last of the consignment of philosophical apparatus ordered by Professor Marshall when in Europe last year, consisting of designs in selenite, sections of quartz and quartzware plates of mica for study in polarized light, prism of salt, apparatus for conical refraction, and a saccharimeter...