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Definition of Flintier
1. flinty [adj] - See also: flinty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flintier
Literary usage of Flintier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1889)
"Scientific Religion, or Higher Possibilities of Life and Practice through the
Operation of Natural Forces. 8vo, $6.40. Pétrie ( WM flintier s). ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"What, none but women, and betray me ? then I see your hearts are flintier far
than men. Mrs. H. Think not that I'll betray you, nor shall she, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... the lieutenants of the son of Theodosius.160 In the course of a busy these
numbers is ridiculously corrupt; but the flintier would please me very much. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"A butterfly. FLINDER-MOUSE [flind-ur-mous] sb. A bat. FLINTER-MOUSE [flint-ur-mous]
sb. A bat. This form is intermediate between flintier-mouse and ..."
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