1 With back to the stranger ship, and face set like a flint to his own, Ahab stood upright till alongside of the Pequod.
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.
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 CooperContext 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 CooperContext 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.
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.
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.
8 After groping about for a little, he found the flint and steel he wanted, and began to strike a light.
9 The man was in no hurry, and struck again with the flint and steel.
10 His whole face was colourless rock: his eye was both spark and flint.
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 DoyleContext 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.
13 We had touched no flint, made no fire.
14 It takes two flints to make a fire.
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.