Примери за flinty

• I thought that he had a flinty tone about him tonight.

• I have been in a crowd dozens of times with the object of compelling some mean, flinty-hearted individual shopkeeper to close his shop.

• I hope that we are not going to look on them as flinty-hearted landlords.

• The airline has a flinty eye on commercial advantage.

• Known for his distinctive accent and flinty voice, he often played devious authority figures.

• The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone.

• His early voice was described as flinty and tender, beseeching and plaintive.

• Small areas in the north of the commune are composed of flinty clay and quartz shingle.

• His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting.

• The flinty sparkle of the stars in the desert sky seemed to accentuate the vast blackness, reminding him that night operations were always scary.

• He had heard it that in the flinty eyes of owners, reporters were easy to find and a dime a dozen.

• Ultramylonite is often hard, dark, cherty to flinty in appearance and sometimes resemble pseudotachylite and obsidian.

• Another shaft started in a westerly direction, but this coal was flinty, or mixed with rock, and digging was discontinued.

• However, both wines have naturally high acidity and the potential to exhibit the minerally, flinty notes described as "pierre fusil" or gunflint, as well as citrus and spicy notes.

• Oh, my sweet vile, kind, flinty, mild, uncharitable master!