I suppose she has always come across as a wee but flinty.

It must be hardened so as to make it a flinty steel.

The times were hard, and they called for men of flinty fibre.

It must have been disheartening work, picking away at the flinty ledges.

With flashing eyes, Justine Delande sprang up, facing the flinty-hearted old Scotsman.

Right here-betweenold Hugh Johnstone and this flinty-heartedwoman avenger-liesmy fortune.

Only a thin, provisional crust of topsoil covered the harsh, flinty ground.

You are hard with me, Elinor-alwaysflinty and adamantine, and that sort.

His expression remained mild, but the look in his eyes was flinty.

But then he saw the flinty, hot fury in his mother's face.

Katharine Hepburn, blue of stocking and blood, was the flinty east-coast patrician.

It was clean, stark, and functional, smelling of disinfectant and flinty dust.

There is something that must be done.' Her tone was dull and flinty.

And for the first time he realized the flinty basis of her nature.

Now had he the flinty heart and the cunning mind of his fathers.

These are flinty bodies perfectly insulated in strata both of chalk and sand.