Like a wildfire igniting in tinder-dry brush, it will only take one spark. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
These pockets of flames are embedded in tinder throughout the rest of the region. From Wordnik.com. [The Middle East: The Match That Can Ignite The World] Reference
Place this on top of a flat flint so that the edge of the tinder is right next to the edge that you are going to strike. From Wordnik.com. [I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started.] Reference
That however, faid he, is the idea tinder which truth obliges me to repre - font it. From Wordnik.com. [Moral and Political Dialogues;: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance] Reference
This is the kind of tinder dry brush that they are dealing with out here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2007] Reference
'This is a pretty kind of tinder-box, if I can get whatever I want like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
Fireplace fire starters - Start fires fast by using newspaper "tinder" to help them catch hold. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
A pretty kind of tinder-box, if I can get whatever I want like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
‘This is a pretty kind of tinder-box, if I can get whatever I want like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
O happy I, to be tinder the charge of such a master!. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Haiti's present day Anocracy constitutes prime political tinder. From Wordnik.com. [Eli Y. Adashi: Tinderbox Haiti: Could All Out Violence Be Too Far Behind?] Reference
The dry wood caught like tinder and soon the whole tree was aflame. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
Ormond took the hint like tinder, and grasped my hand on the bargain. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
By means of flint, steel, tinder, and burnt rags Turner made a light. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
"Why, you've already got twice too much tinder, Giraffe," remonstrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol] Reference
Long-simmering antagonisms provided the tinder for last week's unrest. From Wordnik.com. [Blacks And Cops: Up Against A Wall] Reference
The frame structures packed in closely together were like so much tinder wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Passions were inflamed until it needed but a spark from a tinder to set them ablaze. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The tinder, the kindling and the toxic ferment are all there and in abundant supply. From Wordnik.com. [Eli Y. Adashi: Tinderbox Haiti: Could All Out Violence Be Too Far Behind?] Reference
Then, whether the building was older and more tinder-like than was supposed, or whether. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
He then applied a long brimstone match to the tinder, and at once the match was ablaze. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
At a certain point she felt with her hands like the blind, and found tinder and matches. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
PETER VAN DYK: A group of volunteer firefighters patrol the tinder-dry forest near Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [Volunteers Rush To Aid Russian Firefighters] Reference
Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
It had been weeks since rain had fallen upon the forest and the underbrush was like tinder. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
The hearts of men are tinder; something caught on fire in Pierre, but still he would say nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
The floor was level and thickly overgrown with long, dead grass and dead greasewood, as dry as tinder. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
The smell was like wet leather wrapped around long dried out pine, useless for tinder, impossible for the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference
She quickly collected a small bundle of dry wood in her apron and taking flint, steel, and tinder, started for the knoll. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
And with that he took the steel out of his tinder box, and threw it over the horse's crest; then it stood as still as a lamb. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
During the long summers the forests become as dry as tinder and the loss from fire amounts to millions of dollars every year. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
The combination of low borrowing rates and a huge stockpile of cash should be tinder for a wildfire of economic growth and inflation. From Wordnik.com. [Libor Falls as Banks Sit on Cash] Reference
They could not be removed, and a single spark from the frail and tinder-like materials might send the whole in an instant to the skies. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
If you professedly use a borrowed coin, you must adroitly change it for your own, tinder pretence of showing how to spin it, or the like. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
Everything was arranged and the door was fastened with chains and padlocks, but they forgot the tinder to light the candle with at night. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
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