flints

The flints might be a problem, but he could ask Yual about that before he started.

The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

The flints might be a problem, but he could ask Yual about that before he started.

The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

His arms got stiff with the labour of lifting up shovelful after shovelful of heavy mud to plaster the side of the ditch, his feet turned cold as "flints," and the sickly smell of the slime upset his stomach so that when he tried to eat his bread and cheese he could not.

The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867

In plowing, thousands of pieces as large as "flints" are turned up.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853

The Lexicon also points to the very few "flints," or errors in the continuity of the story, that appear in the

unalog 2008

I picture the old ones sitting around their mammoth-dung fire, chipping away at their flints in the fire light and planning tomorrow's hunt ...

Some time back Dave Petzel made an excellent post concering the last days of Neanderthal man. 2009

I picture the old ones sitting around their mammoth-dung fire, chipping away at their flints in the fire light and planning tomorrow's hunt ...

Some time back Dave Petzel made an excellent post concering the last days of Neanderthal man. 2009

All that experience and practice can teach he had still to learn: if he chipped flints, he doubtless chipped them clumsily enough.

C.S. Lewis on Paradisal Man 2010

Relatively speaking, Mountain Pass — whose rare-earth deposits were discovered in 1949 — is not too radioactive, and through the 1950s the ore was mostly used to make flints for lighters.

Clean Energy's Dirty Little Secret 2009

Relatively speaking, Mountain Pass — whose rare-earth deposits were discovered in 1949 — is not too radioactive, and through the 1950s the ore was mostly used to make flints for lighters.

Clean Energy's Dirty Little Secret 2009