He used one of his favorite terms -- "flinty" -- to describe Mr. Simpson. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
"The house white is kind of flinty and I think it goes with everything myself.". From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Choice]
Obama singled out Simpson, a longtime advocate of fiscal discipline, as being "flinty" or unyielding. From Wordnik.com. [Obama sets up panel to tackle debt] Reference
"If you look in the dictionary, it says 'flinty' and then it's got Simpson's picture," the president said. From Wordnik.com. [Obama sets up panel to tackle debt] Reference
"If you look in the dictionary, it says 'flinty'; then it's got Simpson's picture.". From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
Cast stones, whence men, a flinty race, were reared. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
Shall not these mournful groans pierce thy flinty heart?. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Mackenzie's cold and flinty face is quivering like a leaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
"Under the heart of the flinty hill lies the coal," he said simply. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Fifteen hours later another fall of flinty stones occurred at Bismarck. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Come on, Norn, we're about dead, standing on these flinty-hearted steps. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Perhaps love has made me mushy but I don't regret it as hate made me flinty. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
Behind such a flinty assessment lies the Pentagon's recent memory of Somalia. From Wordnik.com. [Shooting The Messenger] Reference
There was a flinty gleam in his keen eyes and a fierce grating of white teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference
And try to resist suggesting that the Brits "apply some flinty Chicago toughness.". From Wordnik.com. [Severe Weather Shuts Down British Airports] Reference
He handed over a piece of hardtack, flinty-surfaced and about as appetizing as a stone. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Even Bond's flinty superior, M, was modeled on Fleming's boss in wartime Naval Intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Bring Back James Bond!] Reference
When the quality of the vintage is good, the wines are dry, diuretic, and of a flinty flavour. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
For one, Bradley -- on paper -- is a perfect New Hampshire candidate: flinty, serious and judgmental. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Your Back] Reference
Rigney is a pleasant face of a sport that too often turns to the public only the flinty face of avarice. From Wordnik.com. [Reunion In The Desert] Reference
A man that clings to his word and sticks to his course, a flinty little fellow, would perhaps come next. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
Where such a fracture is open, clean, white and flinty, the brick in all probability is of a good quality. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
Tom peered searchingly into the flinty eyes that were set so deeply in the wrinkled, leathery countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Then succeeded most terrific lightnings; lightnings which rent the solid trees, and clove asunder the flinty rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
According to tradition, Ham, the son of Noah, inscribed mystic sentences on flinty rocks and metals at the time of the. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The pretty round chin was firm and hard, and in the expressive eyes the light was shot with specks of flinty coldness. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
With the sharp-pointed steel rod he picked and worked several minutes, but made very little progress in the flinty ice. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
But Huckabee's gospel style has little appeal in flinty New Hampshire, and Rudy Giuliani has inexplicably pulled his ads. From Wordnik.com. [The McCain Scenario] Reference
Then comes Gloster, the bloody and devouring boar, typified again by the hard and flinty rock the miner frequently encounters. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The shoes of Black Fan struck the flinty limestones on the pike, the sparks flew, and her trail was a veritable streak of fire. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
A grindstone with one side harder than the other can have its flinty side softened by immersing that part in boiled linseed oil. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Dr. Walter also taught the bible-class, and won the flinty hearts of the congregation, and the susceptible ones of the young ladies. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
Scots troops manned the frontier; Scots bankers funded the plantations; flinty, Presbyterian Scots merchants enjoyed the empire's markets. From Wordnik.com. [Blue, White, Red] Reference
The winter wheats are, as a rule, more soft and starchy than the spring wheats, which are usually corneous or flinty to different degrees. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
Besides the tree roots, flinty anthracite, and viscous bitumen that darkened the island's soil, the workers began hitting pockets of bones. From Wordnik.com. [The Unnatural History of Brown's Island] Reference
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