flinty

How To Use flinty In A Sentence

• His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call. A History of English Literature
• his flinty gaze
• Seas shift their beds, rivers change their channels, continents grow old with the weight of years and hoary crowns bestud the islands, while ocean currents grind their rocky feet to dust and scatter their flinty ribs in the secret chambers of the deep. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
• There is something old-fashioned in his manner which may explain why he excels as gruff authority figures and flinty men of the West.
• The always reliable actress brings a flinty edge to the formidable Maggie.
• Courage and insight, action, motion are flinty , arrogant, sharp, fight.
• The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed cattle of Switzerland.
• Rumpled and flinty-looking, with a kind of rawhide, folksy sincerity, Russell epitomized the rugged and independent spirit of the West. Zane Grey, Romancing the West
• Who can resist the flinty crispness of baked pecans, suspended in a maple-goo inside short, buttery pastry?
• Perhaps this helps to explain why digging for randomness in the flinty soil of physics is such hard work.