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The Breckland Heath has always been interfered with by ancient flint workers and farmers, the military, the rabbits and the rabbit warreners.
When flint was reached the miners cut a series of radiating galleries out from the shaft to follow the seam.
The two most common kinds of glass used for making achromats are crown glass and flint glass.
These are cornerstones, flint stones, millstones, limestone, and milestones.
The French Marine would show the students how to load and fire a flintlock, and how to make a fire with flint and steel.
This goblet of about the same period is made of a type of soda glass soon to be outmoded by the new English flint glass.
She gathered some rocks together, and began trying to make a spark with the flint.
Taking the flint and steel from his satchel, he cast sparks upon the torches, and they soon erupted into full flame.
For hundreds of years, firearms depended upon fiery sparks from the forced impact of flint upon steel.
I pull out my lighter, watch the flint spark to flame, and hold the outer edge of the bark an inch above the brightness.
Sparks arose from the flint and firestone, and soon the torch became ablaze.
From his saddle bags Draco took two torches and some flint and steel to light them.
I found boxes of cartridges, another hand-gun, tools for shoeing horses and a flint and steel for lighting fires.
He shows Richard how to use a flint and steel and how to use hand-made sulphur matches called spunks.
The white to gray flint bed, 2.5 meters thick, rests on gray fossiliferous Vanport Limestone.
Like the first, it includes some world-class localities, such as gypsum crystals from Eilsworth and flint from Flint Ridge.
At the base of the Reading Formation are several metres of brown clay-rich sand with glauconite, flint pebbles and oyster shells.
Visiting relatives, dignitaries, or pilgrims would return home bearing cache blades, cores, and bladelets made from Flint Ridge flint.
The flint consisted of cores, chippings and unfinished tools, indicating that tools were made on site.
It is a shale-hosted flint, passing northward into marine shale and southward into marine clay ironstone.
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A sharp flint serves them as a lancet for letting blood, as well as for scarification in bruises and swellings.
His weapons and tools were of the rudest description, and made of chipped flint.
The achromatic lens consists of a double convex lens of crown glass combined with a plano-concave lens of flint glass.
This is the cause of the surface of flint glass, under certain circumstances, becoming opaque and iridescent.
A block of flint glass three inches thick has been pierced with the 28-inch spark.
In this the jar was made of flint glass, cylindrical in form, Page 110 six inches in diameter and eight inches deep.
Had the hat covered the flint completely, he must assuredly have graced a cabinet.
Bang handed him over the dish, slipping into it some fragments of ship biscuit, as hard as flint.
The smalt is usually composed of one part of calcined cobalt, fused with two parts of powder of flint and one of pot-ash.
A small flint or stone having a natural hole in it, and worn as a charm, is also called a holystone.
The occurrence of a hard variety of hornstone, which is not flint, is apparently confined to the compact, fetid variety.
This type of flint is constantly found associated with rudely formed prototypes of the Solutrean laurel-leaf point.
Whereon the housecarl laughed a little, and said that it was but an ancient flint working.
Hornstone is more brittle than flint and has a splintery rather than a conchoidal fracture.
When I made de fires, iffen dere wa'nt any live coale lef', we had to use a flint rock to git it sta'ted.
A form of flint corn, with variegated leaves, is grown for ornament under the name Zea japonica or Japanese striped corn.
It is composed of flint, siliceous sand, a little potash or soda, and about two-fifth parts of lead oxide.
The Dominicans and Jesuits set their faces like flint against all education tending to liberalize the mind.
The north front, the most ornamented, had large pointed windows and embattled parapets, lozenged with flint.
Accordingly they obtained a light by means of the tinderbox and flint and steel.
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