bitter salt

The air was chill, damp, heavy with the bitter salt tang of the sea.

She was still crying, bitter salt perfumed her skin.

He spat the bitter salt of seawater out and rinsed his mouth with fresh.

If only tear ducts expressed subcutaneous fat and not bitter salt water.

Bitter salt water got past the mouthpiece, choking her, eyes streaming with the effort of coughing.

But it had been close to two decades since the Arya nations had tasted the bitter salt of war.

A cold wind whispered out of the east, laden with the bitter salt tang of the sea; and I shivered.

Swallowing at the bitter salt in her throat, she asked Call if anyone had seen Vain or Findail.

Even with his best Aquamancer-taught magic, Douglas knew the water from the pool would still taste of green slime and bitter salts.

It tasted like any one of the standard restoratives: fruity, sweet, with an undertaste of bitter salt.

As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him.

It is derived from the Greek word alumen, meaning bitter salt, or the Latin alum, the mineral.

"Sea's damned cold," Doc complained as their craft butted into a long, gray roller, sending up a shower of bitter salt spray.

He stayed where he was, his arms aching and his lungs heaving to draw in air through the bitter salt spray.

His nostrils were suddenly filled with the same smell of bitter salt he'd inhaled once in the sistral winds of Carthage.

How the bitter salt tears of the Magdelene fell upon soil ensanguined and moist with the shed blood of the Messiah.

It is borrowed from Old French; its ultimate source, alumen, in turn is a Latin word that literally means "bitter salt".

Exhausted, she tasted the bitter salt of tears in her mouth and realized she was sobbing in pain and anger and frustration.

Each subtle change and inflection of her voice, the very sound of her breathing, and the bitter salt taste of her tears upon his lips.

In the cold our lakes froze over; in the heat they shrank, they became tepid, they became bitter salt, so that the fish died and floated belly up.

It had a bitter salt taste, and he knew that one of the broken ribs had pierced his lung like a lance and that the blood sprang from deep within his body.

Partly this was due to the sense of remorse still felt by the survivors - the spectres o.f the thousands who had been killed on the beaches, or driven out in herds to die in the sea, haunted the bitter salt.