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Heartbreakingly, these flinty Rivian ledger-readers, upon discovering the tooling for those cars still in place, promptly scrapped it, leaving anyone fantasizing about a brand-new turbocharged, all-wheel-drive Eclipse in tears.
THE RIVIAN R1T BREAKS THE ELECTRIC-PICKUP GAME WIDE OPENDAN CARNEYSEPTEMBER 28, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEBesides, he’s already located Rafo—and met the boy’s prize rooster, a flinty, handsome creature named Macho—and senses that the kid isn’t as tough as he thinks he is.
CRY MACHO IS PURE CLINT EASTWOOD—AND THAT'S MOSTLY A GOOD THINGSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKSEPTEMBER 17, 2021TIMEEvery summer in her hometown, I’d hear and see the amazing, unrequited devotion to the Red Sox that, if requited, might upset some difficult worldview with which their fans had made a flinty Puritan peace.
AFTER COVERING EVERYTHING FOR 52 YEARS, IT’S TIME TO SEE WHAT I MISSEDTHOMAS M. BOSWELLMAY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLouis had no sooner reached the window, than he would have thrown himself from the flinty butments upon the top of the precipice.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERAt some point near the base, when the flinty stone was speeding forward like a meteor, it abraded a harder portion than before.
TWO BOYS IN WYOMINGEDWARD S. ELLISHe swung along with a swaying motion, and his claws, striking the flinty rocks as he passed over them, rattled like iron nails.
TWO BOYS IN WYOMINGEDWARD S. ELLISWhen Hank threw down the last expiring match, he caught a glimpse of something white on the flinty floor.
TWO BOYS IN WYOMINGEDWARD S. ELLISHe was sitting on the flinty floor, with his back against the side of the cavern and his legs thrust out in front of him.
TWO BOYS IN WYOMINGEDWARD S. ELLISThey were near the mouth of the cell which had been Prior Cyprian's flinty dormitory, and were almost involved in darkness.
ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTHThe vessel in the meantime grounded on a flinty bottom, at a short distance from the advanced jetty.
THE BOOK OF THREE HUNDRED ANECDOTESVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FLINTY
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