How To Use Tinder In A Sentence
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His method of character development consists of striking his two leads together trying to elicit sparks; alas, the script provides no comedic tinder to be ignited.
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Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister.
Build A Survival Fire With Condoms and Underwear
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It took several tries for the tinder to catch in the damp atmosphere.
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Dr Jatinder Singh from Medicine Department said that every section of the society has to play collective role in checking female foeticide which is a punishable crime.
Medical Terrorism -7800 girls are being killed before birth every year in J&K
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Original sin, he said, turned the human heart into a fomes peccati (tinderbox or powder keg of sin), operative at all times, even in the regenerate.
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He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly, it is alleged.
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He took out the tinderbox and the candle.
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I stuffed the bottle with scraps of paper and tinder-dry sticks of which there was a plentiful supply.
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He had a tinderbox in his robe, and he knocked the flint against the steel until the sparks caught the tinder and the fire flamed.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand.
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All homes in tinderbox zones should be designed so that the likelihood of fires spreading to other homes is reduced.
What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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Years of drought, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," Goodell said.
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To his horror he saw that the thatch was aflame, the rotten pillars were catching fire one by one, and the rafters were burning like tinder.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area.
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Long and bitter patent actions brought against him by the Wright brothers have only provided tinder for this blaze of confusion.
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Pine needles greatly increase the flammable surface area of these trees, making ideal tinder for rapid ignition.
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It shot like lightning into the firepit, instantly igniting and consuming the tinder, and turning it to black ash.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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That's not tinder we want to relight; the resulting blaze might scorch us all.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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We used some dry grass and dead twigs as tinder to light the camp fire.
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In forests that by nature burn lightly and frequently, putting out every fire can leave tinder to build up and fuel a much greater conflagration.
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November 12, 2008 at 3:17 pm yeh, adn mi sonz a tinder fut scout who wud b a sekkund class f heed pass teh watur test, so i guess heez gawt alotta cat in him..lol….massteur eagul..yeh i wuz lurkin lasnite an saw u sed dat
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He didn't have any flint or tinder, but he gathered wood and used his magic to light a fire.
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Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox.
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The teenage pyromaniacs experimented with different fuel sources, different sorts of fats (some very smelly) and oils, moss, dry rotten wood and home baked tinder using a cotton handkerchief.
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And whilst some girls will be on Tinder to find a hook-up, most aren't.
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Proms suck, but lighting a fire under the tinderbox of mouthbreather bigotry is far worse than dumb dance.
Think Progress » Lesbian Constance McMillen excluded from alternative prom organized by students’ parents.
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As the California energy fiasco has demonstrated, the maladjusted U.S. economy is replete with inflationary ‘tinderboxes’ waiting for sparks.
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Years of drought in the Tehachapi area, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," said county fire Battalion Chief David Goodell.
Tehachapi Fire Burns Dozens Of Homes, Threatens 150
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The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire.
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Fire -- General remarks; to obtain fire from the sun (burning-glasses, reflectors); by conversion of motion into heat (flint and steel, guns, lucifers, fire-sticks); by chemical means (spontaneous combustion); tinder; tinder-boxes; fuel; small fuel for lighting the fire; to kindle a spark into a flame; camp fires Burning down trees; hollows in wood; fire-beacons; prairie on fire; first obliterate cache marks; leave an enduring mark; heating power of fuels; blacksmithery; wet clothes, to dry; tent, to warm; incombustible stuffs (see "Brands").
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
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The thing was (not that we are imputing any strong blame in this case, we merely bring it as an illustration) it touched himself, his office, the inviolability of his jurisdiction, the unexceptionableness of his proceedings, and the wet blanket of the Chancellor's temper instantly took fire like tinder!
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
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Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.
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Dry inner bark from a cottonwood is tje best tinder.
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started.
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In the same way as a magnifying glass can be used in bright sunlight to set fire to dry tinder, sound energy can be focused and used to raise temperatures to the point at which the cells will die.
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The racial tension in the area makes it a tinderbox ready to ignite.
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Place two handfuls of tinder in the center of the fire circle.
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In addition to packing lightweight plastic signal mirrors, well-designed whistles and flints that can be used one-handed, each kit contains a special type of tinder called WetFire.
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That house was a tinderbox of memories; it had seen so many parties and Christmases, each one stuffed with relatives and friends chatting amiably, that even the footworn rug or a model of Volkswagen Beetle on the fireplace could spark fond reminiscences.
A Vaccine For Whedon Syndrome
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That's not tinder we want to relight; the resulting blaze might scorch us all.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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I stuffed the bottle with scraps of paper and tinder-dry sticks of which there was a plentiful supply.
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Nearby Silas's cottage, they find a tinderbox, which makes a townsman recall that a peddler who'd come to town recently carried a tinderbox.
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Life is too short to get all po-faced about athletes using Tinder or getting together for a roll in the snow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone knew the stand was a bit of a tinderbox, but none actually thought it would go up.
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The tinder is there for rebellion to catch fire across British society.
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Just gather lots of very small dry tinder (dry grass, very small sticks) and an armload of pencil-sized sticks and then your larger wood.
Would putting smokeless gun powder in a water proof match container make good fire starter.
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Because of the dry tinder inside, firefighters had to check to ensure the fire had not got through to any other floorboards.
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It was clearly a tinderbox situation with demonstrators likely to become violent at any moment.
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On the South wall, tinder an atrb fupported by two black marble Corinthian pillars, is a Lady kneeling before a dejk, with a book lying open upon it, and over her head checquy P.S. atg. and foible, crejl a cockatrice, over one of the pillars H.
A description of that admirable structure, the cathedral church of Salisbury. : With the chapels, monuments, grave-stones, and their inscriptions. To which is prefixed an account of Old Sarum.
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Political tinder is spread all around the landscape, but who will strike the match?
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We used some dry grass and dead twigs as tinder to light the camp fire.
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And the president should have done it earlier, is lay out what kind of tinderbox situation we have in the Middle East.
CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2007
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Decades of fire suppression and scattershot suburban development have created a tinderbox and now you have seen the results.
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The image of thought here is of lightning, in search of tinder, suddenly blazing into our heads.
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Like a wildfire igniting in tinder-dry brush, it will only take one spark.
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So now our tinderbox, and cauldron, and roasting fork, and bowls - all of these needful and precious things for our journeying - would lose their importance and become no more than what they were.
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Ignite the tinder mass by holding a match flame, cupped from the wind, underneath it.
How to Find (and Ignite) Six Natural Fire Starters
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Colonel von Falkenheyn, and his assistant, the latter a lieutenant of the guards, and the name tinder which they journeyed was an incognito one; indeed, so cleverly did they manage to conceal their identity that it was hardly ever revealed.
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
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There's really no evidence that feeding with one bottle over another will make a difference" for better nutrition or any health issues, says Jatinder Bhatia , professor and chief of neonatology at Georgia Health Sciences University in Augusta, Ga., and chairman of the American Academy of Pediatric's nutrition committee.
Building a Better Bottle By Going Back to Nature
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She whirled round as a tinder flickered and the thick tallow candles on the table in the far corner flared into life.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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MARTIN: You know, similarly, Mary Kate, your former boss, in the days after the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, also, you know, faced a similar, it's not quite the same thing, but a very sort of similar kind of tinderbox situation.
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So far most of the country has refrained from going up like a bonfire (probably due to the lack of available tinder - everything burned last year) although there have been a few minor fires near where I'm living (I'm in a relatively new subdivision, about five to ten years old, and there's still a lot of areas which are "scheduled for development" - or in other words, slightly adulterated bushland).
Making Light: Like an ice storm, only with more volume
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The fire started late Saturday in tinder-dry grass near the Snake River.
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_Nick, nick, nick, nick_, went the flint against the steel; and the boy watched the sparks flying till one of them seemed to settle lightly in the priest's tinder-box, and the next minute that single spark began to glow as the old man deliberately breathed upon it till the tinder grew plain before the watcher's eyes, and the shape of the old man's bald head, with its roll of fat across the back of the neck, stood out like a silhouette.
!Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War
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She closed the tinderbox, snuffing the flames, then settled back down where she was lying before.
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The combination of a naturally arid environment, years of drought and poor planning is proving to be dry tinder in a combustible atmosphere.
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Step Three Tap the fireboard to deposit the ember onto the bark, then transfer it to a tinder bundle (see Tinder Bundle-¿ on page 56) and blow it to flame.
Seven Ways To Light a Fire Without a Match
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One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi.
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Dry inner bark from a cottonwood is tje best tinder.
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started.
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Obviously, caution should be exercised when walking on tinder dry moorlands.
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The racial tension in the area makes it a tinderbox ready to ignite.
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While many experts agree that the national forests have become tinderboxes, there is strong disagreement even within the U.S. Forest Service on how to handle the issue.
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In hot, dry summers every tree is a potential tinderbox.
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The men have hanging from their girdles their flint and tinder, knife-case, powder-horn, and, stuck through the girdle from right to left is a sword encased in a sheath made sometimes of wood, but often of metal inlaid with silver and stones.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister.
What is the best way to start a fire in a hurry in the outdoors without matches etc.
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His eyes are like a balance, apt to propend each way, and to be weighed down with every wench's looks, his heart a weathercock, his affection tinder, or naphtha itself, which every fair object, sweet smile, or mistress's favour sets on fire.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The tinderbox is a system set up 40 years ago to make changes in the Legislature-approved budget when lawmakers aren't in session.
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He showed his cupped hands to Bligh and they were full of engraved tinder boxes, rings, broken teeth capped with gold.
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He cleaned the waterfowl expertly and made a fire with a box of tinder and a collection of dried sticks on the flat top of an exposed boulder embedded into the earth.
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Friends in liberal Boston said their Tinder accounts were buzzing as people sought solace and comfort.
Times, Sunday Times
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One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi.
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From this small piece of tinder the conflagration arose: word spread that the cartridges were part of a wider British plot to convert the entire subcontinent to Christianity.
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Friends in liberal Boston said their Tinder accounts were buzzing as people sought solace and comfort.
Times, Sunday Times
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the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe
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She whirled round as a tinder flickered and the thick tallow candles on the table in the far corner flared into life.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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MSPs and prison officers say Fairweather's findings show that Scotland's jails are tinderboxes.
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After the usual preliminaries a smiling countrywoman appeared, bearing a platter on which nestled a large sea bass in a bed of tinder-dry brushwood.
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She slipped her feet into her shoes then threw on a clean dress, not bothering to tie half of the laces, and around her waist she put on the old belt that had her pouch with the tinderbox in it.
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This is the time of year when heathland or bogland fires sometimes break out as tinder-dry dead vegetation catches alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Knowing that the orlop deck fire alone would have been enough — these timbers were dried to tinder after six years in this arctic desert — he still took time to light the lines of powder on the lower deck and open upper deck.
The Terror
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When Singapore became an independent republic, much of the land was held tinder Crown leases that were about to expire.
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His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area.
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The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.
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Erwin's gaze sought Fletcher as he spoke and found him sitting in the one chair that wasn't tinder, his back to Erwin.
EVERVILLE
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That's not tinder we want to relight; the resulting blaze might scorch us all.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Tinder, therefore, properly relativizes civilization by affirming the imperfection and inconclusiveness of every human order, Christian or not.
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The heated, heady campus milieu provides tinder for explosive debates in which more than mere politics is at stake.
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Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox, and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark.
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These pockets of flames are embedded in tinder throughout the rest of the region.
The Middle East: The Match That Can Ignite The World
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George Clooney travelled to Sudan as part of an international effort to defuse the short term tinderbox of a controversial poll.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Friends in liberal Boston said their Tinder accounts were buzzing as people sought solace and comfort.
Times, Sunday Times
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The area is a tinderbox that could again plunge the country into civil war.
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Gaveston bustled about in the darkness, found a tinder, and a cresset torch flared into life.
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As the election process is foremost in all our minds, this tinder-dry tome is hot property right now.
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When Croder and I made contact with each other we both had to keep our cool: we shared what some people called a flint -- and -- tinder complex.
Quiller Meridian
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The already tinder-dry vegetation is further parched by the warm Santa Ana winds which blow in from the desert every year and also fuel any wildfires the moment they break out.
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He placed three logs in it then took out a tinderbox.
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Finally some of the girls stepped in and started throwing some tinder and sticks in the fire.
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Sulphur matches were used to transfer the fire from the tinder to light a spill.
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And, a three-year drought has turned forests and swamps to tinderboxes.
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He got out his tinder and after a few moments a merry fire was burning.
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It was madness to cover public buildings with open oil lamps and leave them to be looked after by natives -- this huge Taj hotel, dry as tinder outside, a complexity of dry wooden jalousies and balconies, was covered with these lights and floating flags -- how it didn't go off like a squib was a miracle.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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So, for heaven's sake, don't add tinder to the fire.
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Years of drought in the Tehachapi area, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," said county fire Battalion Chief
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Place this on top of a flat flint so that the edge of the tinder is right next to the edge that you are going to strike.
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started.
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Dublin city is currently like a tinderbox just waiting to explode.
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The traditional method to prepare amadou as tinder is to fill a pot with the fungus and to add enough strong urine to cover it.
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Although the taxonomic assignment of the Kisingiri and Tinderet material to the genus Proconsul is rather secure, the potential FAE and LAE for this taxon is somewhat problematic.
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The pea stalks, dry as tinder, caught quickly and burned merrily, sending a plume of clean white smoke up to catch the wind.
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said Will and, pushing back his chair, along with Mrs. McGee, he stood up and reached for the tinder.
SACRAMENT
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Martin calls the stepfamily a "tinderbox of sorts," when you consider the combination of the stepmother's relational tendencies with that of her often less emotional or relational husband and a bunch of resentful stepkids.
World of Psychology
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Often, the tundra is like tinder and a badly tended fire can created havoc with pasture for musk ox, deer and reindeer.
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Therefore every traveller should carry on his person the means of procuring a light, under ordinary circumstances of wind and weather; that is to say, he should have in his pocket a light handy steel, a flint or an agate, and amadou or other tinder.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
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After the usual preliminaries a smiling countrywoman appeared, bearing a platter on which nestled a large sea bass in a bed of tinder-dry brushwood gathered from the beach.
