(When Ron looks down at Rachel, "he can make out only the tender curve of her neck and the earlobe with its pearl stud, like a drop of saliva").
Normally, when mosquitoes bite, they inject a tiny drop of saliva that prevents the host's blood from clotting.
Every drop of saliva you leave on a Styrofoam coffee cup or hair follicle that falls to the floor contains DNA that in theory can be tested for everything from ancestry to disease risk.
I'll always be there for my best friend, much like his dreaded drop of saliva".
Add a drop of saliva or blood to the paper discs, and they'll change color if the viruses are present.
That drop of saliva was there when he realized he wanted to leave his girlfriend one year after they had moved in together, it was there when his parents decided not to divorce, and when he told me it was fine not to know what to do with my life.
Of note, the postprandial drop in saliva osmolality was similar whether 0.25 or 0.5 L of water was consumed with the meal.
Add a few drops of saliva to a spoonful of custard, and within seconds it's much more like water.
The strength of conditioning is measured in terms of the number of drops of saliva the dog secretes during test trials in which food powder is omitted after the bell has rung.
One drop from the saliva sample was, finally, dispensed on a buffering strip using a pipette, left in place for 5 min, and the buffer capacity was recorded according to the scale provided by the manufacturer.
When I was thirteen, and we had known each other for a couple of weeks, I noticed that while explaining how to build an invincible Magic deck, a drop of thick saliva was sliding down from the corner of his mouth.
