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Significados de tinder box en inglés

Aún no tenemos significados para "tinder box".
Uso de tinder box en inglés
1
A tinder box is not a thing to get light by hurriedly.
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
2
It's like a massive tinder box waiting to go off any minute.
Radio NZ
3
The kingswood is one great tinder box, and fires rage there night and day.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
4
The flint and steel and tinder box within my pouch made up our store.
To Have and to Hold
5
Quick, Ambrose, up with the straw and the tinder box.
Through the Magic Door
6
The tinder box took up all my attention for a good couple of minutes.
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
7
He sprang from his bed, and reached his tinder box.
A Love Story
8
Bompard's tinder box was lying on the sand and half a box of Swedish matches.
The Beach of Dreams: A Romance
9
Warrington said the ground in the area was "as dry as a tinder box".
The Guardian
10
The city has long been a tinder box.
Reuters
11
We used the tinder box in our forecastle.
Two Years Before the Mast
12
Then he put his hand to his pocket for his pipe and tobacco and tinder box.
The Blue Lagoon
13
He lit a cigar from a little gold tinder box and regarded me with amused eyes.
Mr. Standfast
14
A tinder box I had, but no wood.
The Violet Fairy Book
15
I promise you, this country is only a tinder box, waiting for that sort of spark.
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
16
She picked up the tinder box and the box of matches and put them in her pocket.
The Beach of Dreams: A Romance