Word: salte
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...music pealing through the naves and transepts of that most vast of all cathedrals--the Cathedral of the Human Spirit.... And these little flames of talent Copey, the lamp-lighter, tended faithfully (albeit somewhat brusquely on occasion, yet with his Jeremiads over a bad sentence over savored with Attic salt.) And the flames brightened and kindled other flames, as the Divine law of life is; and their lamps moved hither and yon, bringing into places that had been dark before, light and joy and high intelligence and immortal beauty...
...with the power of the press. In choosing his trade H. R. H. might have become a bricklayer. Certainly the emolument of that profession is higher. But the Prince remained true to literature; and any future protestations of literary indifference may well be taken with a grain of salt...
...Growth, he believed, was a matter of interlacing of organization?a theory which he practiced in his own consolidating activities. A captain of industry, still he stuck to the sea, which had been gracious to him; he built, captained, the Grade, the "swiftest steam yacht that ever split the salt." He has been the confidant of Tilden, the associate of Elaine, the purse-bearer of the Rothschilds, the sponsor of a South American Republic (Chile...
...that this paltry 30 fathoms should be set as a lower limit to his activities. In 1922 he bought a ship, the Blakely, from the Shipping Board. He fitted her out for diving and salvaging, and laid in an equipment of patent diving suits of manganese bronze (which resists salt water corrosion), with flexible parts of interlocking copper tubing and ball bearing joints, with portable air equipment, carrying a four-hour supply of oxygen and a telephone...
...salt, tar and rum that can be collected on a stage...