sea-salty

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1. Containing or tasting of sea salt.

   My sea-salty tears bring to mind my origins.

   1975, Blaga Dimitrova, translated by John Robert Colombo and Nikola Roussanoff, “Grains of Rice (Extracts)”, in Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village: Sixty Poems from Contemporary Bulgaria, Willowdale, Ont.: Hounslow Press, →ISBN, page 26

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   Suddenly restless, he walked to the doorway to fill his lungs with clean, sea-salty river air.

   1996, Charlene Raddon, Forever Mine, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 343

   But the moans grew ever louder until they swallowed everyone in the room, and Johannes woke to the taste of his own sea-salty tears.

   2002, Brian Howell, The Dance of Geometry, [New Milford, Conn.]: The Toby Press LLC, →ISBN, page 11

   He could close his eyes and see the sisters sitting right up front at his funeral, sea-salty tears raining down on the Sunday dresses they had not worn for years.

   2003, Michael Parker, “Off Island”, in Bill Henderson et al., editors, Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses, Wainscott, N.Y.: Pushcart Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 536–537

   And here (and she would tell you—very against her will!) Alice began to cry saddened, sea-salty tears.

   2008, Heather E. Hutsell, “Awakening Alice”, in Awakening Alice; A Ticket for Patience, 2nd edition, [FattyBabyCat Publishing], →ISBN, chapter 10 (Pass the Scheme), page 65

   Then I cry the sea-salty tears of someone who is not certain what they have to go back to.

   2009, Jane Davis, chapter 17, in Half-Truths & White Lies, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 127