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Sentences starting with flint

Flint Buckner's cabin was the last one of the village, going south; his silver-claim was at the other end of the village, northward, and a little beyond the last hut in that direction. [5]
Flint gave no sign that he heard. [9]
Flint Buckner goes out of this world to-night, for sure. [5]
Flint had a meek English youth of sixteen or seventeen with him, whom he treated roughly, both in public and in private; and of course this lad was applied to for information, but with no success. [5]
Flint got up from New York this morning, and sent for him a couple of hours ago. [9]
Flint knows I've been waiting to be governor for eight years, and each year it's been just a year ahead. [9]
Flint Buckner? [5]

Sentences ending with flint

Euphrasia stood upright with her hand on the knob, and her eyes flashed over the group and rested fixedly on the daughter of Mr. Flint. [9]
I have nothing whatever to complain of from Mr. Flint. [9]
His instinctive action was to pull Pepper down to a walk, scarcely analyzing his motives; then he had time, before reaching the spot where their paths would cross, to consider and characteristically to enjoy the unpropitious elements arrayed against a friendship with Victoria Flint. [9]
You will find two tin boxes, containing papers labelled Augustus P. Flint. [9]
Would you object to waiting a little while, Miss Flint? [9]
They are all there," Mr. Crewe declared, slapping the bundle; "read them, Mr. Flint. [9]
The animals hide themselves from my breath, and the very ground becomes as hard as flint. [5]
Austen advanced to the desk, and laid the boxes before Mr. Flint. [9]
The truth is that in all the years of his activity be has never had such an antagonist as Mr. Flint. [9]
You ought to talk to Flint. [9]

Short sentences using flint

You tell Flint that. [9]
Nor any sign of Flint. [5]
Mr. Flint eyed her narrowly. [9]
Isn't that so, Flint? [9]
I congratulate you, Flint. [9]
Why, it's Miss Flint! [9]
I'll tell Mr. Flint to-morrow. [9]
Would Mr. Flint ever know? [9]
It is Flint Buckner. [5]
Would Flint guess? [9]

Sentences containing flint two or more times

His face was still square, determined, but Mr. Flint noted curiously that the anger was gone from his eyes, and that another--although equally human--expression had taken its place,--a more disturbing expression, to Mr. Flint. [9]
He was thinking of the pass which Mr. Flint had sent him, and of the kind of men Mr. Flint employed to make the practices effective. [9]
He continued to look at Mr. Flint, and Mr. Flint continued to check the papers only more slowly. [9]
Mr. Flint had gone to Sumner with the engineers, leaving orders to be met at the East Tunbridge station at ten; and Mrs. Flint, still convalescent, had dined in her sitting room. [9]
His mind was flint, and his tongue was but the flash of the flint. [11]
At first Mr. Flint had thought he could count on Mr. Bixby; after a while he made several unsuccessful attempts to talk business with him; a particularly difficult thing to do, even for Mr. Flint, when Mr. Bixby did not wish to talk business. [9]
Mrs. Flint spent, and Mr. Flint paid the bills; for the first ten years protestingly, and after that he gave it up and let her go her own gait. [9]
Fairview was the "summer place" of Mr. Augustus P. Flint, her father, on a shelf of the hills in the town of Tunbridge, equidistant from Leith and Ripton: and Mr. Flint was the president of the Imperial Railroad, no less. [9]

More example sentences with the word flint in them

Gave Mr. Flint your pass did you? [9]
Is Mr. Flint your example of the fittest type to exist and survive, or Gladstone or Wilberforce or Emerson or Lincoln? [9]
No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
I merely wished you to know, Mr. Flint, that there is no use in attempting to deceive me in regard to the true colour of those practices. [9]
I guess, and you know, that Flint hasn't treated you decently this summer after all you've done for him, and I admire the way you're standing by him. [9]
Austen sat down, with the corner of the desk between them, while Mr. Flint opened the boxes and began checking off the papers on the list. [9]
The Honourable Hilary, with his bag, was halfway to the door, when Mr. Flint crossed the room in three strides and seized him by the arm. [9]
He had a will like flint, and under it a soft heart. [9]
The practices by which you have controlled this State, Mr. Flint, and elected governors and councillors and State and national senators are doomed. [9]
I told you, when we met up there by the mill this summer, that if Mr. Flint had consulted me about your candidacy, before seeing you in New York, I shouldn't have advised it--this time. [9]
Haven't I done what Flint wanted always? [9]
But when these were finally disposed of, Mr. Flint led the conversation back to the Honourable Humphrey Crewe, who stood harmless--to be sure--like a bull on the track which it might be unwise to run over. [9]
Miss Victoria Flint was sated beside Mr. Meader's bed, and qualified friendship had evidently been replaced by intimacy since Austen's last visit, for Mr. Meader was laughing, too. [9]
Mr. Crewe, who was anything but a fool, and just as assertive as Mr. Flint, cut in. [9]
And when it was all finished and revised, it was put into a long envelope which bore this printed address: Augustus P. Flint, Pres't United Northeastern Railroads, New York. [9]
This kind of virtuous talk is beautiful to listen to when you and Flint get into a row. [9]
For many years Victoria had chosen her own companions; when the custom had begun, her mother had made a protest which Mr. Flint had answered with a laugh; he thought Victoria's judgment better than his wife's. [9]
Looking to a very remote period in the history of the world, we find, to use Sir J. Lubbock's well-known terms, a paleolithic and neolithic period; and no one will pretend that the art of grinding rough flint tools was a borrowed one. [1]
And yet the very contradiction of her name, Victoria joined with Flint, seemed to proclaim that she did not belong to her father or to the Rose of Sharon. [9]
The Honourable Hilary Vane and Mr. Flint should be informed of it at once. [9]
We are so used in America to these tremendous rises that a paragraph will suffice to place Mr. Flint in his Aladdin's palace. [9]
If you've come up here at this time of night to try to deceive me on that, you might as well go back and wire Flint it's no use. [9]
Mr. Flint looked up from the papers, and regarded him narrowly, for the tone in which this was spoken did not escape the president of the Northeastern. [9]
Mr. Flint looked up from his desk, and his face, previously bereft of illumination, lighted when he saw his daughter. [9]
In brief, the Truro Railroad found itself very advantageously placed, as Mr. Worthington and Mr. Flint had foreseen. [9]
Mr. Flint had told him, that very morning, of her separation from Jethro, and of the reasons which people believed had caused it. [9]
Austen having gone to the station, Dr. Tredway had received Mr. Flint in the darkened hall, and had promised to telephone to Fairview the verdict of the specialist. [9]
Mr. Flint went to the lamp, unrolled the ball of telegrams, seized one and crossed the room quickly, and held it out to her. [9]
I want you to take them to Fairview and put them into the hands of Mr. Flint himself. [9]
What'd you go to Flint for? [9]
Mr. Flint had to control himself. [9]
The cords began to beat and throb in his neck and on his forehead, and his eyes gave out fire like flint on an arrow-head. [11]
Mr. Flint walked to a window at the far end of the room and flung apart the tightly closed curtains before it. [9]
Mr. Flint found time, too, to write some carefully worded but nevertheless convincing articles for the Newcastle Guardian, very damaging to certain commanders who had proved unfaithful. [9]
It came, Austen thought, from a rarity of meeting with men on a disinterested footing; and he could not but wonder how Mr. Flint would treat the angels in heaven if he ever got there, where there were no franchises to be had. [9]
I have talked this matter over with Mr. Flint, and incidentally with Senator Whitredge. [9]
Mr. Flint considered this a moment, and decided to let it pass. [9]
Hunt is what they call a 'safe' man, meaning by that a man who will do what Mr. Flint wants him to do. [9]
I still remember the tinder box in the kitchen, the steel, the flint, and the threads dipped in sulphur. [10]
He therefore assumed the same attitude as had Mr. Flint, and forced the burden of explanation upon Austen, relying surely on the disinclination of his son to be specific. [9]
I travel on the pass which the Northeastern gives me as a legislator, and I'm thinking seriously of getting Mr. Flint to send me an annual, now that I'm in politics and have to cover the State. [9]
Mr. Flint ignored the implication in the repetition. [9]
Mr. Flint took the Honourable Hilary's list, ran his eye over it, and whistled. [9]
We never saw the gardener light his pipe except with flint, steel, and tinder. [10]
The man on the chair, his face lighted by a fanatic enthusiasm, is the Honourable Hamilton Tooting, coatless and collarless, leading the cheers that shake the building, that must have struck terror to the soul of Augustus P. Flint himself--fifty miles away. [9]
Burrowing continually amongst the bowels of the vessel, Mr. Tooting knew the weak timbers better than the Honourable Hilary Vanes who thought the ship as sound as the day Augustus Flint had launched her. [9]
A letter in the bold and upright hand of his son was on the top of the pile, placed there by Mr. Flint himself, who had examined Mr. Worthington's face closely when he came in to see how much he might know of its contents. [9]
The eyes were the blue gray of the flint, kindly yet imperishable. [9]
Hunt appeared as that which has come to be known as the 'regular' candidate, Mr. Flint sent for him to go to New York and exacted certain promises from him. [9]
It thus transpired that the Extraordinary Man's nephew was the only person in the camp who had a killing-grudge against Flint Buckner. [5]
The fact is that old Tom Gaylord, in the autumn previous, had quarreled with Mr. Flint about lumber rates, which had been steadily rising. [9]
Be it known that Mr. Flint, with characteristic caution, had not confided even to the senator that the Honourable Hilary had had a stroke. [9]
If Flint stops that bill, I'll buy a newspaper and go to the people with the issue and throw his d-d monopoly into bankruptcy. [9]
He might not tell her that his difference with Mr. Flint was not a mere matter of taking a small damage suit against his railroad, but a fundamental one. [9]
Mr. Flint was surprised, but concealed it. [9]
Are there no such things as moral interests, Mr. Flint? [9]
Just what the state of his feelings were at this time towards Victoria Flint is too vague--accurately to be painted, but he was certainly not ready to give way to the attraction he felt for her. [9]
Victoria, descending the stairs, hastily pinned on a hat which she kept in the coat closet, and hurried across the lawn in the direction Mr. Flint had taken. [9]
And the words sounded profane indeed as he fixed his eyes upon Mr. Flint. [9]
On the day, some years before, when Austen Vane had brought his pass into this very room and laid it down on his desk, Mr. Flint had recognized a man with whom he would have to deal,--a stronger man than Hilary. [9]
But we couldn't smoke, because we had been heedless and left our flint and steel behind. [5]
The buggy rolled slowly down the drive, and Mr. Flint, staring after it a moment, went in the house. [9]
Isaac D. Worthington, sitting alone in the library of his mansion, heard it, and had no need to send for Mr. Flint to ask what it was, or who it was had fired the Third Estate. [9]
It was this silence and this attitude which proclaimed itself that angered Mr. Flint, yet made him warily conceal his anger and change his attack. [9]
And moreover, as she well knew, Mr. Flint was a man whom other men could not easily answer; he bore them down, even as he had borne her down. [9]
If Flint could see him now! [9]
Mr. Flint was seated on a bench, his hands clasped across his stick, and as she came softly over the carpet of the needles he did not hear her until she stood beside him. [9]
Entering the oak-bound sanctum, he crossed it and took a seat by the window, merely nodding to Mr. Flint, who was dictating a letter. [9]
When Mr. Flint said that you were to be the Republican nominee, my business was to work to get you elected, which I did. [9]
A wave of renewed affection for his father swept over him, of affection and pity and admiration, and for the instant he forgot Mr. Flint. [9]
Once before he remembered that she had told him he must see Mr. Flint. [9]
One of these propositions met with much favor; it was, to confer upon the assassin a vote of thanks for removing Flint Buckner, and let him go. [5]
Augustus P. Flint, president of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
And he had picked up his hat before Mr. Flint found his tongue. [9]
He flung the paper at Mr. Flint. [9]
Mr. Flint walked out, sent the note, and returned and took his place silently at his own table. [9]
A man passing out at the northern end of the village shouted it to Pat Riley, whose claim was the next one to Flint Buckner's. [5]
Victoria Flint got one, and read it to her father at the breakfast table. [9]
Yes, he had once been plain Gus Flint, many years ago, when he used to fetch the pocket-handkerchiefs of Mr. Isaac D. Worthington of Brampton, and he was still "Gus" to his friends. [9]
The blanket tied on his head held food kept from his rations, with stone and flint and other things. [11]
A masculine version of that look Mr. Flint now beheld in the eyes of Austen Vane, and the enraging effect on the president of the United Railroads was much the same as it had been on his chief counsel. [9]
As a man of spirit, also, Mr. Crewe wrote to Mr. Flint, protesting as to the manner in which he had been treated concerning committees. [9]
In the stomach of one of the oxen they had found a flint arrow-head, and, on showing it to Caracalla, he laughed, and observed to the high-priest Timotheus: "A shaft from Eros's quiver! [10]
Mr. Flint thought of Mr. Bixby with his bulging pockets going about the hills, and smiled at the manner in which moral effects are sometimes obtained. [9]
As a matter of fact, they were very nearly true as regarded Job Braden, but Mr. Crewe may be pardoned for thinking that Mr. Flint was not showing him quite the confidence due from one business and corporation man to another. [9]
In these days of electric lighting, when you have only to touch a button and your parlor or bedroom is instantly flooded with light, it is a pleasure to revert to the era of the tinder-box, the flint and steel, and the brimstone match. [6]
By the light of a lantern they found the smooth and solid dirt floor of Flint Buckner's cabin; of the cabin itself not a vestige remained, not a rag nor a splinter. [5]
Unfortunately, we have not time to go into that conversation with Mr. Flint, who had given a very good account of Cynthia indeed. [9]
Mr. Flint had not steamed the letter open, and read the news; but he could guess at them pretty shrewdly, and so could have the biggest fool in Brampton. [9]
Mr. Flint did not call it a conscience--he had a harder name for it. [9]
Mr. Flint did not answer, but his eye rested again on his counsel's face. [9]
No, it was not a problem in simple arithmetic, and Mr. Balch and Mr. Flint, and even Mr. Duncan and Mr. Worthington, covered whole sheets with figures during the stifling days in July. [9]
Augustus Flint was not a man given to the psychological amusement of self-examination; he had never analyzed his motives. [9]
Why, Vane, you never told me that," said Mr. Flint. [9]
Hilary Vane had named the presidents of conventions, and the committees, and by pulling out stops could get such resolutions as he wished--or as Mr. Flint wished. [9]
I tried it myself for half an hour, awhile ago, up-stairs here, while the inquiry into Flint Buckner's character and ways was being conducted in this room, and I arrived in that way at the rate of a candle's consumption when sheltered from the wind. [5]
This is what Mr. Flint read: "Miss Wetherell begs to inform Mr. Isaac D. Worthington that she can have no communication or intercourse with him whatsoever. [9]
In former days Mr. Flint had not often questioned his judgment. [9]
I doubt if Mr. Flint ever heard of your case. [9]
His friendship with Mr. Flint and the suspicion that he might be inclined to fancy Mr. Flint's daughter would not influence him in the least; of that many of his hearers were sure. [9]

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