It is not uncommon for the milk of animals advanced in lactation to have a more or less strongly marked odor and taste; sometimes this is apt to be bitter, at other times salty to the taste.
At certain stages in lactation, a bitter salty taste is occasionally to be noted that is peculiar to individual animals.
The open ground looked green, but not with fertility, for it was mostly composed of bushes of the dull green, salty samphire.
The water is always running underneath the sand, but in certain places it becomes impregnated with mineral and salty formations, which gives the water a disagreeable taste.
At a distance of two days' journey eastward from the cabin on the Cuyahoga, a branch of this trail forked off and led on to a much frequented "salt lick" or spring of salty water, near the Mahoning river.
The path skirted its banks for some distance, then turned into the woods again, leading on to the springs of slightly salty water which lay at no great distance.
But before that, driving up on the Mojave stage, I met Salty again crossing Indian Wells, his face from the high seat, tanned and ruddy as a harvest moon, looming through the golden dust above his eighteen mules.
You should hear Salty Williams tell how he used to drive eighteen and twenty-mule teams from the borax marsh to Mojave, ninety miles, with the trail wagon full of water barrels.
But when he lost his swamper, smitten without warning at the noon halt, Salty quit his job; he said it was “too durn hot.
Was it not wonderful how the kind Father came to scatter those many islands in the Pacific Ocean,--stepping-stones for a tiny little Bluebird so that he need not wet his feet in crossing that wide salty river?
He had come so far over the salty wastes that he was very thirsty; but with water, water everywhere there was not a drop to drink.
On a warm day the skin becomes wet with a salty fluid called sweat or perspiration.
A saltyfluid called tears flows from the tear gland at the upper and outer side of the eyeball.
Seated on the ledge furnished by the hull of the skiff, I inhaled the sea's salty aroma with great pleasure.
It's a salty river, saltier than the sea surrounding it.
In fact, I had already resorted to speeding up my inhalations in order to extract from the cell what little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of clean air, scented with a salty aroma.
Among others I noted that sand goby mentioned by Aristotle and commonly known by the name sea loach, which is encountered exclusively in the salty waters next to the Nile Delta.
There were Gloucestermen among it, the champion fishers of the world, who spent their spare time in drifting past the English boats and hurling salty wit--at which pastime they often came off second best.
This time he himself detected a faint acrid odor quite different from the usual clean, salty smell.
He barely recognized the clean-shaven, clear-eyed, broad shouldered youth he saw there as the rough, salty skipper of the schooner Charming Lass.
I was insane with the scene of carnage, the salty odor of blood, and the choking, stifling fumes of burning powder.
He secured his life vest tighter and held on to the mast, the salty Aegean in his face.
The salty taste of the Aegean was in his mouth as he reached for the black mike of his radio, still gripping the starboard tiller.
He cares nothing for streams or shallow bays, but gambols friskily amidst the salty billows.
Yngve, a man of affluence and influence in his native country, Sweden, crossed the salty billows for America ten years ago.
Iceland and Greenland hast thou found, With valor to thy honor crowned, The Faroes in thesalty deep, And others that in the ocean sleep.
It is so salty that it is likely you will dream of being thirsty, and of somebody bringing you water.
All the spring-fed rivers and lakes would also be salty and fetid with sulphur compounds, for at great depths brine and foul water are always present.
Asparagus was once a weed, native to the salty edges of the sea, and as this weed has become a food, so it is possible for other wild weeds yet to do.
The Little Colorado was a red stream about sixty feet wide and four or five deep, salty and impossible to drink.
It was an August Newport morning, when there is a salty freshness in the air, but a temperature that discourages exertion.
An inlet comes lapping up by the old house with a saltysmell and a suggestion of oyster-beds.
We cross over the bridges that span salty channels, oozy and redolent of ocean and sea-weed during the hours of ebb.
I'm all salty inside like a split herring," he said, reaching for a fresh pewter, and blowing the foam till it scattered over the floor like flakes of snow.
From the tap-room below a boy came to bring us our morning cups, and we washed the salty tang from our throats.
Wet marshes spread away to the north; the wind was heavy with the salty stench of mud-flats uncovered at low-water, and all alive with sea-fowl hovering.
These men here shoot seals in order to live; for the same reason I sail this schooner; and Mr. Van Weyden, for the present at any rate, earns hissalty grub by assisting me.
Imagine so salty a phrase on the lips of the Humphrey Van Weyden of a few months gone!
Some of these pans have merely a covering of salty lime; others are covered with a thick deposit of shells.
The salty nature of the soil, the sweet grass, and the dry atmosphere of the karroo plains are very favorable to the health of these birds.
With a sudden burst of wind, that whipped the salty spray of the waves over those in both boats, and a sprinkle of rain that soon became a downpour, the tempest broke.
She changed the course of the Pet, though it was a bit risky for the seas were quartering now, and the spray came aboard in salty sheets.
Down under ooze and salty weed, She'll make thee hear--and then her own!
For only so Can peace release us and give us ease Of our salty woe.
We passed the Rocky Mountains A year or so ago, And crossed the salty deserts A year or so ago.
Blow high, blow low, Heigh hi, heigh ho, And crossed the salty deserts A year or so ago.
The air was clear, cool, and salty from the near-by sea.
