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Every 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 ANECDOTESVARIOUSNow we will look at a shell-builder, the Whelk, who uses his flinty tongue in quite another fashion.
ON THE SEASHORER. CADWALLADER SMITHA grindstone with one side harder than the other can have its flinty side softened by immersing that part in boiled linseed oil.
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WORDS RELATED TO FLINTY
- atrocious
- barbarous
- bestial
- bitter
- bloodthirsty
- brutal
- brutish
- callous
- cold-blooded
- degenerate
- demoniac
- depraved
- evil
- excruciating
- ferocious
- fierce
- flinty
- hard
- hard-hearted
- harsh
- hateful
- heartless
- hellish
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhuman
- inhumane
- malevolent
- merciless
- monstrous
- painful
- pernicious
- poignant
- rancorous
- relentless
- revengeful
- ruthless
- sadistic
- sinful
- spiteful
- tyrannical
- unfeeling
- unkind
- unnatural
- unrelenting
- vengeful
- vicious
- virulent
- wicked
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- relentless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- satirical
- scathing
- serious
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- strict
- tight-lipped
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsmiling
- unsparing
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- bitter
- bullheaded
- by the book
- cruel
- disciplinary
- dyed-in-the-wool
- flinty
- forbidding
- frowning
- grim
- hang-tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-core
- hard-line
- hard-nosed
- hard-shell
- hardheaded
- harsh
- implacable
- inexorable
- inflexible
- mortified
- mulish
- relentless
- rigid
- rigorous
- rough
- severe
- steely
- stiff-necked
- strict
- stubborn
- tough
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unyielding
- brawny
- cohesive
- conditioned
- dense
- durable
- fibrous
- firm
- fit
- flinty
- hard
- hard as nails
- hard-bitten
- hardened
- hardy
- healthy
- indigestible
- inflexible
- leathery
- lusty
- mighty
- molded
- resilient
- resistant
- rigid
- robust
- rugged
- seasoned
- sinewy
- solid
- stalwart
- steeled
- stiff
- stout
- strapping
- tenacious
- tight
- tough as nails
- unbreakable
- unyielding
- vigorous
- withstanding
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