For starters, we'll have a "sallet" -- salad -- from Margaret Huntington Hooker's 1896 book, "Early American Cookery," reprinted in 1981 by Americana Review. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
III. -- and find at their place of supper nothing but a 'sallet' and two or three bones of mutton provided for ten of us, 'which was very strange. From Wordnik.com. [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference
I do look now for a Spanish fig, or an Italian sallet, daily. From Wordnik.com. [The White Devil] Reference
From the ventilating slot in the visor of his pink-glass sallet came a faint sob. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
With pleasant skill of poetic alliteration, Sidney Smith wrote in ordering how to mix a sallet. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The typical later 15th-centuy (Wars of the Roses era) knightly headwear is the sallet and bevor combo. From Wordnik.com. [Long Tall Sallet] Reference
Or otherways with jagged cucumber-peels, olives, capers, and raisins of the sun, then the best sallet-oyl and wine-vinegar. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Next, notice the helmet, the Duc d'Alencon specifically remarks that her helmet he calls it a calotte a sallet had no visor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-24] Reference
He began to slip down onto the salt; but someone held his head, compelling him to look out through the opened visor of his sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Rousing from his stupor for a moment, he used the shreds of his psychokinetic power to squash them against the insides of the sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain-mail - gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses and sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Conan Chronicles]
At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain mail -- gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses, and sallet. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Freebooter]
Then she gave him back the cup and lighted down off her horse, and took the sallet from her head, and spake: I may not pass by a friend without. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
To apply the bruised leaves will serve for preventing boils, and the plant, if taken as a sallet with vinegar, is good for sadness of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Red Knight stood against me, and looked hard into my face; and I saw how huge a man he was, and how a lock of bright red hair came out from under his sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
Take the tenderest, smallest, and youngest ellicksander-buds, and small sallet, or young lettice mingled together, being washed and pickled, with some capers. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Wouldst thou have a sallet now? all the herbs are dead!. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
Starvation huv in sight; my sallet were meltin 'away mighty fast. From Wordnik.com. [Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters] Reference
Take away that turnip sallet -- I cain't git nothin 'like I want it.'. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference
And therewith he did off his hauberk and his other armour save his sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
Because it will cost me more money to buy sallet-oil to keep it from rusting, than it is worth. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
But Michael rode in the company new clad, and with his head and face all hidden in a wide sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
Ralph laughed; for by this time he knew the voice of the King, yea, and the face of him under his sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
I was dreaming thy cousin Barbara was making a sallet, and I was fain to taste it, it looked so cool and fresh, -- and I wakened. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
Then rode out from those men a very tall man, and two with him, one on either side, and he threw back the sallet from his face, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
And that will not be so long agone, said a townsman, smiling, for I doubt we should see no grey hair in thine head if thy sallet were off it. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
Then the Red Knight stood against me, and looked hard into my face; and I saw how huge a man he was, and how a lock of bright red hair came out from under his sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
Jeanne doffed her sallet and replied: "I am not alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
3.28.5: Sweet sallet herbs bee here, and herbs of euery kinde. From Wordnik.com. ["Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"] Reference
"Galen (whose beloved sallet it was) says it breeds the most laudable blood. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
A bright steel sallet on the head, and a long green surcoat over the body armour. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
A sallet another while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain-mail " gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses, and sallet. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
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