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"The descriptive names followed: Paso de los Robles because of the oak trees; Los Laureles for the laurels; Tularcitos because of the reeds in the swamp; and Salinas for the alkali which was white as salt."

"A trip to Salinas sixty miles to the north at the head of the valley was event enough for a year."

"Olive Hamilton became a teacher. That meant that she left home at fifteen and went to live in Salinas, where she could go to secondary school."

"In the towns they talked of sewers and inside toilets, and some already had them; and arc lights on the street corners—Salinas had those—and telephones."

"His wife complained even more, but the truth of the matter was that nothing much had happened in a criminal way since Horace had been deputy. He had seen himself making a name for himself and running for sheriff. The sheriff was an important officer. His job was less flighty than that of district attorney, almost as permanent and dignified as superior court judge. Horace didn’t want to stay on the ranch all his life, and his wife had an urge to live in Salinas where she had relatives."

"Off to the sides, around Salinas and Blanco and Castroville and Moss Landing, the marshes are still there."

"I will tell you about the solemn courts of love in Salinas. They were about the same in other towns, but the Salinas Row has a pertinence to this telling."

"He knew most of the secrets, weaknesses, and the braveries of Salinas."

"Dessie had her dressmaking business in Salinas."

"We lived in Salinas and we knew when Tom had arrived—I think he always arrived at night—because under our pillows, Mary’s and mine, there would be packages of gum."

"he reached it and turned east into the town of Salinas."

"On the train back to King City from his trip to Salinas, Adam Trask was in a cloud of vague forms and sounds and colors."

"This night, the first after Adam’s return from Salinas, Cal and Aron were first astonished and then a little embarrassed to find that Adam listened to them and asked questions, looked at them and saw them."

"‘The fact that your wife is a whore in Salinas won’t change a thing.’"

"“What brings you up to Salinas, Mr. Trask?” she asked."

"I’ll see it in my mind when I’m in Salinas, listening to William Jennings Bryan."

"Lee helped Adam and the two boys move to Salinas, which is to say he did it all, packed the things to be taken, saw them on the train, loaded the back seat of the Ford, and, arriving in Salinas, unpacked and saw the family settled in Dessie’s little house."

"Salinas had two grammar schools, big yellow structures with tall windows, and the windows were baleful and the doors did not smile."

"February in Salinas is likely to be damp and cold and full of miseries."

"Things do not change with a change of scene. In Salinas, Cal had no more friends than he had had in King City."

"At intervals Salinas suffered from a mild eructation of morality."

"In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful nation in the world."

"Lee had become American conservative in his clothes since he had lived in Salinas."

"Maybe she came to Salinas sometimes. She might be in Salinas right now."

"San Jose had a spy scare, and Salinas was not likely to be left behind—not the way Salinas was growing."

"An institution was gone from Salinas, dark and fatal sex, as hopeless and deeply hurtful as human sacrifice."

"But every man in Salinas goes to the post office in the afternoon."

"The train delivered quite a crowd for Salinas, returning relatives home for Thanksgiving, their hands entangled in cartons and gift-wrapped paper boxes."

"They passed the last streetlight on the very edge of Salinas, and blackness lay ahead of them and the road was unpaved and sticky with black ’dobe mud."

"In Salinas aßen sie Burger mit Chili."

"Auch in einem mexikanischen Imbiss in Salinas saßen sie nebeneinander, ihre dunklen Fäuste lagen Seite an Seite auf dem Tisch, jede hielt eine Flasche Orangenlimonade."

"Late today we arcehed Salinas, a small city thsaetemedlittouchedbythequakeandits aftershocks."

"scavengers beingdrivennorthtowardusfromSalinas,and refugeesbeingdrivensouthtowardusfromtheBayarea."