| A scarlet tinder-box glowed among a pile of books on the nightstand. |
| Many of the old slow ways survived, the ways that were fast enough in the days of the stage-coach and the tinder-box. |
| In countries with large young populations, the combination of a tough jobs market and poor education and qualifications is a political and social tinder-box. |
| It's a combustible concoction wherever it occurs: increasing productivity, widening inequality, and rising unemployment create tinder-box societies. |
| They're the companies that helped turn the boreal forest into a flammable tinder-box. |
| You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. |
