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Meanings of old flint in English

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Usage of old flint in English
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On a broken stone surface, or old flint road 65
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
2
Memory sometimes acts like an old flint-gun: it hangs fire, yet ends by going off.
Put Yourself in His Place
3
Nobody knows what stuff that old flint masonry is to deal with, till he tries it.
Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life
4
In their hands, the pursuers carried sabres, cutlasses, old flint-lock muskets, cumbrous horse-pistols, scythes, and reaping-hooks.
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1
5
He even had a day's shooting with an old flint-lock fowling-piece under the auspices of his cousin the miller.
The Aspirations of Jean Servien
6
Alice and the Mouse had pistols in their belts, large old flint-locks, with bits of red flannel behind the flints.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
7
It was the old flint and steel, but the sparks were not bright enough to light the tinder of emotion.
The Judgment House
8
It was an old flint musket, and the priming had got damp during their journey through the moist tropical forest.
The Castaways
9
After he left, uncle nailed shakes over the window, and cleaned up his old flint-lock musket, and loaded it carefully.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
10
It was simply a horde of half-naked banditti, carrying old flint-locked muskets, the barrels of which were decorated with copper rings.
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
11
It is an old flint-lock rifle which once belonged to Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer, who opened up Kentucky for us.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 47...
12
The old flint tower is grave and grim, but softened by a wonderful centuries old ivy in a veil of living green.
Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
13
Soon our friend Sandy Black, who had been summoned from work in his garden, joined them with a rusty old flint-lock gun.
The Settler and the Savage
14
Old Flint watched carefully as he led the way through the woods.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
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It will be good fun, now that old Flint is gone.
Andy Grant's Pluck
16
Old Flint sat at work under a big beech tree.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
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