Flints
[flɪnts]
Examples
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The Old Man, the father and master of the group, would perhaps be engaged in hammering flints beside the fire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Probably some of the women would hunt good flints; they would fish them out of the chalk with sticks and bring them to the squatting-place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sharp, burning stones and flints wounded my feet and caused me extreme anguish. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It takes two flints to make a fire. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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