I hope to win a place above the salt before I'm done."

Further to the south it rose higher, above the salt spray of the sea, and there the trees began.

It was the absolute in insouciance for those who sat above the salt.

You and Delvor will be above the salt at table."

Anglers, too, have taken advantage of the stream above the salt marshes.

And Martel stands above the sand, well above the salt.

The welcoming Tanu sang all the way to the blazing city high above the salt.

But Caesare came from above the salt.

"You have friends above the salt, master.

My usual place, when no great mages visit, is just above the salt, with the chamberlain and the steward."

The dark hills of Shiya were anunbroken barrier, rising five hundred feet above the salt flats.

But above the salts the two sequences begin to diverge; and the more recent they get, the more pronounced the differences become.

Above the salt cliff the eastern sky was ominously red with sunrise, while glooms of night still lingered in the west.

Swift hit him over the head with a shovel, and buried him above the salted pig to be dug up later.

Only on scattered 'islands' above the salt level is there vegetation - coarse grass - which provides fodder for the region's rich wildlife.

What's happening is the water vapor in the air is equilibrating with the vapor pressure above the salt solution.

As we approached the encampment, the base truck shortened our tether, until we hovered only fifteen meters above the salt flat.

Moonlight striking almost horizontally left the narrow street in shadow but revealed the cross-set beams above the Salt Herring's door.

There are three wells from which fresher water sits in a "lens" above the salt water that leeches in through the coral.

The caprock above the salt domes is sometimes the site of deposits of native sulfur, which is recovered by the Frasch process.

Test samples taken by the State Board of Health have found relatively high levels of tritium at the surface above the salt dome in the dry season.

The strata immediately above the dome that are not penetrated are pushed upward, creating a dome-like reservoir above the salt where petroleum can also gather.

So important was salt in the Middle Ages that distance from the salt cellar at the dinner table indicated a guest's importance, hence the expression "above the salt."

The other hand, poised above the salt, ready to dip the kairee the moment his teeth had broken the skin, scooping up more salt to cut the sourness, hovered.

Soon, the invaders took on a more tangible substance, racing in from the sea, going feet-dry less than five hundred feet above the salt marshes behind the Karavastasd Lagoon.