salt (n.)

salt (v.)

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

New Testament: Matthew v. 13.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

New Testament: Matthew v. 13.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i.

His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Old Testament: Genesis xix. 26.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.

New Testament: Colossians iv. 6.

As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Tale of a Tub. Sect. vii.

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 153.

'T was merry when

You wager'd on your angling; when your diver

Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he

With fervency drew up.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 5.