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  • A heavy swivel-hook, baited with fat salt-pork, was dropped overside; and by the time I had compressed the severed veins and arteries, the sailors were singing and heaving in the offending monster.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • If I were one of the fallen, I have been told by former lovers that my flesh is slightly redolent of salt-pork.

    Jilly Gagnon: The Future Of China's Space Program 2009

  • Stir in the reserved clams, salt-pork cracklings and light cream.

    Legal Sea Foods' Clam Chowder Recipe 2008

  • Stir in the reserved clams, salt-pork cracklings and light cream.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Many stories like that: The salt-pork relief -- boiling it and boiling it to try to leach out the salt enough so we wouldn't gag on it.

    The '30S 2008

  • Leys staring at nothing since that night, unresponsive, useless, hauled in the boat like a hundred and thirty pounds of soiled laundry for almost four months now, nonetheless managed to slurp down his salt-pork broth and rum ration every afternoon and to swallow his spoonful of tea and sugar each morning.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Trenchers of salt-pork stew steamed beside vast loaves of marbled bread and mounds of fresh oranges.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • But, when he came back with plenty of nice buffalo-meat, they had a real feast; for they had had no meat but salt-pork for many a day, and they did not like that very well.

    The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2 Various

  • Now we wanted trout; it was in the programme that something more delicate than salt-pork should grace our banquets before Katahdin.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • But still the old sounds could not be divorced from his ears; and the old salt-pork barrel was an unpardonable culprit.

    Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

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