Flint
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
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Flint Quotations
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.
Sid Waddell
Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
John Cleveland
Flint Translations
flint in Dutch is kiezelsteen, kiezel, keisteen
flint in French is silex
flint in Italian is acciarino
flint in Latin is silex silicis (med. cilicis)
flint in Norwegian is flint
flint in Spanish is pedernal
flint in Swedish is flinta
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