As I expected, they were seamen, in appearance regular old salts.

Hard luck, as the old salts say, these things can happen.

It isn't the way old salts do that sort of thing, you see.

Hardened old salts are known to go white and faint when they see one.

That is to say, of course, if I commanded, with good old salts to second me.

Magnesium Chloride, Sodium Chloride A couple of old salts, both of which occur naturally in seawater.

One or two old salts, rather the worse for liquor: in general the people are very temperate.

The old salts- abunchof Gorasni seamen-wereleaning on the ship's gunwale, staring down, surly and silent.

Her crew was composed of some twenty venerable Greenwich-pensioner-looking old salts, who just managed to hobble about deck.

When these new ships were first seen at Liverpool, the " old salts" held up their hands.

But all the passengers were very sick during the rough weather, except S-and I, who are quite old salts.

I used to stand on the bandstand with these old salts, and we'd look out and watch the sleek racing yachts.

It was a trying time for old salts, who had fought in many a previous battle; much more so for young hands.

Her silence, her pale eyes, and the quiet decisiveness of her personality cowed even the tough old salts who patronized the Excelsior.

The old salts used to grin to themselves when they saw her coming along, and offered to teach her knots or splices.

Scattered through the Cove were many little shoemakers' shops, into which, especially in the long winter evenings, these old salts would drift.