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tinder
1. Put a flame to tinder, he thought, and the
2. It would be improper to relight the fire from Tragus’s lamp or brazier, so she went outside with a scrap of tinder and a copper knife
3. Then he pulled from his pocket a small tinder box
4. The student revolts of the sixties struck a spark into tinder that was, in the mood of a substantial minority at that time, waiting for the fire of revolution
5. Titus went about lighting a fire the old fashioned way, with flint and tinder as the wind whistled through the generous gaps in the rotting door
6. Whilst Titus struck the flint above the tinder repeatedly, Athene made out a well-prepared room stacked with logs, then darkness prevailed until the next strike of the flint when pots and new looking utensils could be seen lining the fireplace
7. With the third strike, the tinder lit and slowly the fire took hold, its living flames radiated out a flickering light across the room
8. He lit the tinder and wood under the Stag
9. With a sudden premonition he groped along the wall until he found the shelf that supported the brass lamp, with its flint, steel and tinder beside it
10. The tinder dry wood, half a century old and laden with dust, was ripe for burning
11. ‘And guess what’s on the menu when that one’s finished?’ Sally chuckled, as Siri began to collect some tinder
12. "I don't want to know what you can do with sticks and tinder
13. The cone of tinder snapped to life with a vibrant fire
14. He smiled warmly as he took the fire starting tools from her, "Well, that's most of our problems solved but we still lack tinder
15. His tinder was smouldering when he left the porch and his touch cord was alight soon after
16. She struggled to spark the match, holding her tongue until a flame made its home in the bird's nest of tinder
17. But then, her heart was dead, and it would never, never wake again, tinder such circumstances it was surely as well that she should try to make his life happy whatever her own might be
18. Matches had been a great convenience to households that in the past had used steel, flint and tinder to light their fires
19. Olin was aware that tinder had been made by placing old bits of linen in a metal box, closing it and then putting it into a well-lit fireplace
20. ashes until live coals lit the tinder she held out to
21. but her tinder dry throat prevented it
22. With the tinder
23. musical instrument and his voice was as dry as tinder
24. "And the strong man will become tinder, his
25. "And the strong man will become tinder, his work also a spark, thus, they shall both burn together, and there will be none to quench them" (Isaiah 1:31)
26. "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem…And the strong man will become tinder, his work also a spark, thus, they shall both burn together, and there will be none to quench them" (Isaiah 1:1-31)
27. "And the strong man will become tinder, his work also a spark, thus, they shall both burn together, and there will be none to quench them" [Isaiah 1: 31]
28. "And the strong man will become tinder, his work also a spark, thus, they shall both burn together, and there will be none to quench them" [Isaiah 1:31]
29. As the tinder began to smoke, Andrew asked Connor, “How are we going to do three more weeks of this?”
30. Oh, my blessed heart, the fuss and commotion he'll make! And those granite setts at Tinder Hill---
31. I knew nothing until I knew that we were on the floor by the great table, and that patches of tinder yet alight were floating in the smoky air, which, a moment ago, had been her faded bridal dress
32. Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick
33. He saw flames begin leaping at the walls, the old planks as dry as tinder
34. One spark, and this will all go up like tinder
35. The kingswood is one great tinder box, and fires rage there night and day
36. struck a spark into the tinder, it kindled the dry grass and a flurry of
37. that he always carried and refilled when he could; a good supply of pipe-weed (but not near enough, I'll warrant); flint and tinder; woollen
38. one thing I wonder about,' he said as he lit it with his flint and tinder: 'Wormtongue
39. When the flame of the sulphur splinters kindled by the tinder burned up, first blue and then red, Shcherbinin lit the tallow candle, from the candlestick of which the cockroaches that had been gnawing it were running away, and looked at the messenger
40. Whatever tinder you use MUST BE DRY
41. It is a good idea to carry tinder with you in a waterproof container
42. Always keep an eye open for tinder to collect
43. Break open the round and pour the gunpowder on to your tinder before using your flint (a), or remove only half the powder and stuff a piece of cloth into the cartridge case (b)
44. Place it on tinder with the remaining propellant and you will soon have a fire going
45. With a magnesium block, scrape slivers of magnesium on to tinder first (c), then use the saw to produce the sparks
46. In a baseboard of hardwood cut a V-shaped collecting notch which will hold tinder, but still allow air to reach it
47. When the friction makes the spindle tip glow red, blow gently to ignite the tinder around it
48. Putting a pinch of sand in the spindle hole increases the friction and speeds the heating of the tinder
49. This first produces tinder and then eventually ignites it
50. And now he saw by the heap of shavings still fresh at his feet, that, for him and his work, the former lapse of time had been an illusion, and that no more time had elapsed than is required for a single scintillation from the brain of Brahma to fall on and inflame the tinder of a mortal brain