Tinder

Examples

• While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The tinder was damp,--no wonder there,--and one after another the sparks died out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Within the memory of some persons now living, the tinder box was a valuable asset to the home, particularly in the pioneer regions of the West. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A later and easier way was to strike flint and steel together and to catch the spark thus produced on tinder or dry fungus. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• You used to catch fire like tinder on the subject when you were a girl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Prior to the Nineteenth Century, and in fact until about 1833, the old flint and steel and tinder box were the clumsy and uncertain means for producing fire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Emanuel never _was_ reasonable; flint and tinder that he was! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He is like a bit of tinder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It burned like tinder, and by the time she reached the spot, nothing could be seen but flames. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In those good old times, it was a regular household care to provide a sufficiency of tinder, to see that it was kept dry, and that there was a proper flint with fire in it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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