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Significados de flinty em inglês

Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.

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Uso de flinty em inglês
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I suppose she has always come across as a wee but flinty.
The Irish Times
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It must be hardened so as to make it a flinty steel.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns
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The times were hard, and they called for men of flinty fibre.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
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It must have been disheartening work, picking away at the flinty ledges.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
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With flashing eyes, Justine Delande sprang up, facing the flinty-hearted old Scotsman.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
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Right here-betweenold Hugh Johnstone and this flinty-heartedwoman avenger-liesmy fortune.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
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Only a thin, provisional crust of topsoil covered the harsh, flinty ground.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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You are hard with me, Elinor-alwaysflinty and adamantine, and that sort.
The Grafters
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His expression remained mild, but the look in his eyes was flinty.
Soulless
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But then he saw the flinty, hot fury in his mother's face.
This is where we live
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Katharine Hepburn, blue of stocking and blood, was the flinty east-coast patrician.
The Irish Times
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It was clean, stark, and functional, smelling of disinfectant and flinty dust.
Death angel
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There is something that must be done.' Her tone was dull and flinty.
The skein of lament
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And for the first time he realized the flinty basis of her nature.
Black Jack
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Now had he the flinty heart and the cunning mind of his fathers.
Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
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These are flinty bodies perfectly insulated in strata both of chalk and sand.
Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 1 (of...
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