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Meanings of granitic in English
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Examples for "flint"
Examples for "flint"
1
I have food, water, a flint, and the rest you asked for.
2
The Strongs find the flint on which the Geisners strike the steel.
3
Burins and specialized flint tools were difficult to make in any case.
4
He is one of the best workers of flint I've ever known.
5
Let us walk along the cliffs together and search for flint arrows.
1
Home is New York, stony and tall: its real estate is real.
2
The soil in the valley was rich, but stony in some parts.
3
It drops here and there, in good ground and in stony places.
4
Perhaps His Grey Grace will choose you to ornament his stony court.
5
The stony-faced security team lead Ben back up to Clarke's twentieth-floor office.
1
The governor was obdurate in his decision to stick in the race.
2
But the French Court was obdurate; it would not furnish a penny.
3
She changes her mind; she is willing where before she was obdurate.
4
But her villa looks very dark; its closed windows are very obdurate.
5
The surface of his paintings is wall-like in itself: solid, obdurate, opaque.
1
I suppose she has always come across as a wee but flinty.
2
It must be hardened so as to make it a flinty steel.
3
The times were hard, and they called for men of flinty fibre.
4
It must have been disheartening work, picking away at the flinty ledges.
5
With flashing eyes, Justine Delande sprang up, facing the flinty-hearted old Scotsman.
Usage of granitic in English
1
The drift-clays are the result of the grinding up of granitic rocks.
2
This was poor, granitic country, no good for anything but growing trees.
3
The eruptions consequently took place at the lowest point of the granitic chain.
4
The little Indian village stands at the foot of a lofty granitic mountain.
5
Yet many a time I have seen those lips harden into granitic stubbornness.
6
The hills to the eastward of Lake George are chiefly granitic.
7
The only difference is, that here the granitic hills are a little bolder.
8
In particular, they loathed the hardship of engraving endless verbiage upon granitic slabs.
9
These mountains are granitic, and the river bottoms have a light, sandy soil.
10
Near Corunna even granitic ridges stretch as far as Cape Ortegal.
11
It is moderately elevated, level, destitute of vegetation, and appeared to be granitic.
12
An arm of the granitic chain of the coast stretches southward into the plain.
13
A gramen of Switzerland grows on the granitic rocks of the straits of Magellan.
14
The country in front is plain, with a few detached granitic peaks shot up.
15
Already filtrations from the former go to feed western affluents through the granitic masses.
16
The bed of the creek on which we encamped was composed of granitic rock.
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