flinty

• If the truth were to be known, he had little love for the flinty-eyed priests of the fireseed god, Styphon. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
• 'And what And abused him for a flinty-hearted scoundrel, as he is. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
• The garden was flinty, and on Thanksgiving Day, three inches of snow fell. —  Lydia of the Pines
• We get here cocoa which is unripe, flinty, and bitter, having undergone changes that cause it to bear a very low price in the market. —  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise ; Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, ;c.; of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, ;c;.
• They require a grain, white_, hard_, and rather flinty--_white because of its great consumption in bread and hommony, in the preparation of both of which their cooks greatly excel. —  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise ; Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, ;c.; of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, ;c;.

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