old salt

Expect me then soon, for I hope to run athwart you, yardarm and yardarm, as an old salt we once knew used to say.

Well, sir,” said the old salt apologetically, “they told me as she were going down.

The old salt chuckled, and had his eye to the piece immediately.

He looked on as eagerly as all the strangers, very much as an old salt gazing fixedly out to sea.

Vernon took the helm, young Tempest the bow oar, and a tough old salt the oar next him.