saltness

The Arabs take the salt collected by evaporation in these pits for their own use, and that of their flocks. not be healed -- Those not reached by the healing waters of the Gospel, through their sloth and earthly-mindedness, are given over (Re 22: 11) to their own bitterness and barrenness (as "saltness" is often employed to express, De 29: 23; Ps 107: 34; Zep 2: 9); an awful example to others in the punishment they suffer (2Pe 2: 6).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

For there is salt, which has saltness, that is, which has the fulness of grace; and there is salt, which has no saltness, for that which is not peaceful is salt unseasoned.

Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

But if it be without saltness, that is, if its virtue of drying up and preserving be gone, with what shall it be salted?

Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

This might be called literature, or poetry, or religion, but it would not be science; science says that these salt pyramids are the result of the play of attraction and repulsion among the salt molecules themselves; that they are self-poised and self-quarried; it goes further than that and says that the quality we call saltness is the result of a certain definite arrangement of their ultimate atoms of matter; that the qualities of things as they affect our senses -- hardness, softness, sweetness, bitterness -- are the result of molecular motion and combination among the ultimate atoms.

The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

And generally, men ought to find the difference, between saltness and bitterness.

The Essays 2007

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it?

Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

We found that we could get momentary relief by chewing pieces of raw seal meat and swallowing the blood, but thirst came back with redoubled force owing to the saltness of the flesh.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it?

Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I must humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverent care of your health.

The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

Cumana I have obtained drinkable water a very short distance from the mouth, in the Luabo I have ascended seventy miles without finding the saltness perceptibly diminished.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004