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Flint

noun

A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony.

A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River. Synonym: Flint River.

A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing.

adjective

Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings. Synonyms: flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony. "The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

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"Flint" Quotes from Famous Books

... his assistant, who, it was decided, should join him only on the last afternoon of his stay at Hammerpond. Now the village of Hammerpond is perhaps one of the prettiest little corners in Sussex; many thatched houses still survive, the flint-built church with its tall spire nestling under the down is one of the finest and least restored in the county, and the beech-woods and bracken jungles through which the road runs to the great house are singularly rich in what the vulgar artist and photographer call "bits." ...

— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... climbed up on the mill shed to watch the swans in Bledsoe Creek and we soon noticed a great big fish hawk catching the goslings. It made us mad and we decided to kill the hawk. I went back to the house and got an old flint lock rifle Mars. Mooney had let me carry when we went hunting. When I got back where George was, the big bird was still busy catching goslings. The first shot I fired broke its wing and I decided I would catch it and take it home with me. The bird put up a terrible fight, cutting ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... in which to make the experiment of woman suffrage, especially as in Mrs. Stone we had an enthusiastic coaedjutor. In paying this well-deserved tribute to Mrs. Stone, I must not forget to mention that Mrs. Janney of Flint, a woman of great executive ability, started the first woman's reading-room and library many years ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... himself a candle, when it occurred to him that there was a candle end in the Tinder-box which he had taken out of the hollow tree into which the Witch had helped him. He brought out the Tinder-box and the candle end; but as soon as he struck fire and the sparks rose up from the flint, the door flew open, and the dog who had eyes as big as a couple of teacups, and whom he had seen in the tree, stood ...

— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten

... story to hear upon a mountain crest in Utopia, this Hampstead affair, this story of a Frognal heart. "Frognal," he says, is the place where they met, and it summons to my memory the word on a board at the corner of a flint-dressed new road, an estate development road, with a vista of villas up a hill. He had known her before he got his professorship, and neither her "people" nor his—he speaks that detestable middle-class dialect in which aunts and things with money and the right of intervention ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

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