flintlike

The bright flintlike dust lay in drifts against the blistered fences.

Iron Eyes turned flintlike eyes on her.

Like a caged lion, he eased into the chair, coffee unnoticed in his hand, flintlike eyes on hers.

The handsome face of Verres grew flintlike.

(The hills are named after another native stone, flintlike chert that Indians used to make tools.

Revealed beneath was a flintlike intransigence most often brandished like a weapon by wary people in unfamiliar circumstance.

Carver passes the trailer-park test, but his flintlike precisionism doesn't fit the lava-flow aesthetic.

Under that that flintlike exterior beat an even more flintlike heart.

Iron Eyes stared at her, flintlike eyes glittering in his angular warrior's face, braids on both sides of his throat.

Ahead of her, presently, she saw an outcropping of dark, flintlike rock that sloped upward into what looked like a rugged crag rising among the trees.

Another clay associated with coal beds is a smooth, flintlike refractory clay or mudstone composed dominantly of kaolin, called "flint clay".

Raymond Cass Stanley, the Secretary of State, is "long, lean, lanky" and possessed of "a flintlike honesty and integrity."

Though less than five feet tall and dainty in an Old World way, Ms. Abramowicz could be flintlike in her insistence upon historical and linguistic accuracy.

As he listened, Bickel pictured the man behind the voice: flintlike face with gray hair and gray-blue eyes - that aura of momentous decision even in his smallest gesture.

His dark face, from which all flesh had been drained away, seemed to be made up of a series of flintlike points, the sharp cheekbones and jaw almost piercing the hard skin.

Through his spacesuit visor he watched the corvette curve away on automatic pilot, dwindling slowly but surely until its sleek flintlike shape was difficult to distinguish from a faint star.

A granite cliff is solid, hard, flintlike light; an impulse of love is sweet, emotional light; the firing of a neuron is an instant flash of invisible light.

And the Bible tells of God ordering Jacob to suck oil out of flintlike rock, and describes the vale of Siddim being frill of slime pits, which can be interpreted as tar pits."