protested the great man firmly, "blue
flint makes a country place look like a cemetery.
I took out my small provisions and after having refreshed myself, I secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers; I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got a quantity of dry sea-weed, and parched grass, which I designed to kindle the next day, and roast my eggs as well as I could, for I had about me my
flint, steel, match, and burning-glass.
They laid the blame, however, entirely on their guns; two miserable old pieces with
flint locks, which, with all their picking and hammering, were continually apt to miss fire.
The young men and warriors produced their spears, paddles, canoe-gear, battle-clubs, and war-conchs, and occupied themselves in carving, all sorts of figures upon them with pointed bits of shell or
flint, and adorning them, especially the war-conchs, with tassels of braided bark and tufts of human hair.
Would it not he heedless in you to start on a day’s toil of hard hunting, and leave your ramrod and
flint behind?
I am the only man whom Barbecue feared," he urged, "and
Flint feared Barbecue.
From a small bag of twisted coconut hanging from his neck upon his withered and sunken chest, he drew out
flint and steel and tinder, and, even while the impatient steward was proffering him a box of matches, struck a spark, caught it in the tinder, blew it into strength and quantity, and lighted his pipe from it.
He might have let the small
flint that he saw in the teeth go through.
But vast Earth groaned within, being straitened, and she made the element of grey
flint and shaped a great sickle, and told her plan to her dear sons.
That Victory carried
flint and steel I was aware, and that it was she who built the fire I was positive.
I saw one day a soldier striking fire with a piece of
flint, which I immediately recognised as having been a part of the head of an arrow.
For instance, what reader but knows that Mr Allworthy felt, at first, for the loss of his friend, those emotions of grief, which on such occasions enter into all men whose hearts are not composed of
flint, or their heads of as solid materials?