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At once Achates struck a spark from the flint and caught the fire on leaves, and laying dry fuel round kindled it into flame.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLINT
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flint
 n.  massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with fracture and sharp edge
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  With back to the stranger ship, and face set like a flint to his own, Ahab stood upright till alongside of the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
2  The instant this unwelcome sight caught the eye of the scout, his rifle was leveled as by instinct, but the barrel gave no answer to the bright sparks of the flint.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  Hawkeye listened while he coolly adjusted his flint and reloaded his rifle; but the sounds, wanting the extraneous assistance of scene and sympathy, failed to awaken his slumbering emotions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
4  Keep everything in the shade," returned the scout; "the snapping of a flint, or even the smell of a single karnel of the brimstone, would bring the hungry varlets upon us in a body.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  At once Achates struck a spark from the flint and caught the fire on leaves, and laying dry fuel round kindled it into flame.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
6  She turned away with looks fixed fast on the ground, stirred no more in countenance by the speech he essays than if she stood in iron flint or Marpesian stone.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
7  There stood a sharp rock of flint with sides cut sheer away, rising over the cavern's ridge a vast height to see, fit haunt for foul birds to build on.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
8  After groping about for a little, he found the flint and steel he wanted, and began to strike a light.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
9  The man was in no hurry, and struck again with the flint and steel.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
10  His whole face was colourless rock: his eye was both spark and flint.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  She was a fine tall woman, black and quick and fierce, with a proud way of carrying her head, and a glint from her eye like a spark from a flint.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
12  They were encompassed by fifty naked Oreillons, armed with bows and arrows, with clubs and flint hatchets.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
13  We had touched no flint, made no fire.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART FIVE
14  It takes two flints to make a fire.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
15  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.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
Example Sentence:
1  Houses in this part of the country are built of flint.
2  Under the pressure, the flint crumbled into fragments.
3  Raw materials such as flint were systematically exploited, and mining started to appear.