Footnote 6: It has been asserted that the flints of the chalk are merely fossil sponges.
This is shown by the fact that the actually eroded surface of the Chalk can often be seen; or, failing this, that we can point to the presence of the chalk-flints in the Tertiary strata.
The flints of the Chalk also commonly contain the shells of Foraminifera.
It was not often that any of them travelled beyond the bounds of their own ground, unless they were making a journey, such as Garff and his party undertook when they went to buyflints from Goba, the spearmaker.
But he had gone inside, and was now digging in the hole in his turn to find flints for Janet.
You might have a necklace made, with the nummulites above and the flints below as pendants.
These flints are much employed in paving roads and streets, to the great injury of the hoofs of horses; some houses in Dover are also built of them.
Ribeiro had made researches in Portugal that appeared to him conclusive as to the existence of pliocene man, and he produced tertiary flints which he believed to be cut.
Worked flints are beginning to be found, we are assured, in the bottom of the calcareous deposits of Beauce; that is to say, in chalk.
And I have not mentioned all the common uses made of flints in a household.
A great many of the flintsthat appear cut are only fragments that may have been owing to spontaneous fracture.
Ribeiro's flints bore marks of human labor, but he had doubts as to its bed.
Now, whence came all the flints used for striking fire during the historic periods that go back from our time to the middle ages and to antiquity?
The bed of the flints in question was ultimately regarded as incontestable.
He engaged in a long, subtile argument on the way tertiary flintswere introduced into the valleys and caverns.
Here is an instance: from time immemorial our forefathers made use of flints for striking fire, and many of us can still remember the custom, which may not have wholly disappeared.
But it appeared, especially from the flints discovered by the Abbe Bourgeois, that further researches should be undertaken before science can decide on a point so important in the history of mankind.
Wrought flints show evident traces of human labor, and there is no unprejudiced person who cherishes the least doubt about it.
It is, then, no longer possible to attribute the uniform shape of the flints to a mere accident.
During the age of polished stone, on the contrary, the importation of flints from Champagne ceased in the region of the caverns, and the flint of Spiennes was diffused among the plateaux of upper Belgium.
Richard mechanically sat down on the crumbling flints to rest, and listened to the panting of the dog.
Ripton had already stocked an armful of flints for the enjoyment of a little skirmishing.
Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.
I think of the wanderers poor who knelt on the flints and the sands, When the mighty and merciless Moor was lord of the Lady of Lands.
More striking still, France yields us chipped flints by the million, flints so slightly shaped that it is in dispute whether they may not have been so broken by the action of torrents.
What a contrast to the beautiful flints so finely retouched and of such carefully selected materials, found in the very same stations in middle and upper Solutrean layers!
Near Levallois is the late Acheulean station of Villejuif, south of Paris, where the flints are buried in drifts of loess.
Only a few stations have been discovered where the Palaeolithic men were first fashioning their flints into prototypes of the Chellean and Acheulean forms.
The rudeness of the flints has repeatedly raised doubts as to their artificial character; but Wilson (Prehistoric Man, i.
When at last it becomes too shaky for farm use, it is perhaps bought by some poor working haulier, who has a hole cut in the bottom with moveable cover, and uses it to bring down flints from the hills to mend the roads.
Like some of the farmhouses further up among the hills, the tower is built of flints set in cement, which in the passage of time has become almost as hard as the flint itself.
The byroads and paths made with the chalk or `rubble' glare in the sunlight, and the flints scattered so thickly about the ploughed fields seem to radiate heat.
In winter the bourne often has the appearance of a broad brook: you may observe where the current has arranged the small flints washed in from the fields by the rain.
Presently the turf is succeeded by a hard road--flints ground down into dust by broad waggon-wheels bearing huge towering loads of wool or heavy wheat.
Below the mouth of the coombe the water has worn itself a channel quite six feet deep in the chalk--washing out the flints that now lie at the bottom.
Beside some of the sleeping men lay the big antlers of the elk, with the tines chipped to sharp edges, and long sticks, hacked at the ends with flintsinto sharp points.
And two were piling flints that they brought, an armful at a time, from the bend of the river where the children were at play.
The rest of the hunters came up one by one to the top of the bank, hairy, long-armed men clutching flints and sticks.
For why should they fear him, with but the rough, chipped flints that he had not learnt to haft and which he threw but ill, and the poor spear of sharpened wood, as all the weapons he had against hoof and horn, tooth and claw?
Ugh-lomi found great flints sticking out of the cliff face, greater than any he had seen, and he dragged some to the ledge and began chipping, so as to be armed against Uya when he came again.
No doubt the flints lie on the actual surface where they were made.
Morgan as prehistoric are in reality of much later date, for example, Kahun, where the late flints of XIIth Dynasty date were found.
Among these flints shown we notice two fine specimens of the pear-shaped type of St. Acheul, with curious adze-shaped implements of primitive type to left and right.
But this is not the case with all the Palæolithic flintsof Thebes.
Undoubtedly where they were made, for the places where they lie are the actual ancient flint workshops, where the flints were chipped.
Were this so, it is patent that the Palæolithic flints could not have been found on the desert surface as they are.
There they lie, great flints of the Drift types, just like those found in the gravel-beds of England and Belgium, on the desert surface where they were made.
This is quite conceivable, but how is it that the flints left behind on the plateau remain on the original ancient surface?
Pitt-Rivers discovered Palæolithic flints in the deposit of diluvial detritus which lies between the cultivation and the mountains on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor.
Savages may be said to aEurooemakeaEuro fire; for until they rub their sticks, or knock their flints together, it does not exist.
In chipping flints into arrow or lance heads sparks must frequently have been struck from the hard stone, and at times these may have fallen upon and kindled inflammable material.
Still more remote are some seemingly chipped flints and bones cut in a way that suggests human action, which have been found in deposits of the very far-distant Miocene Age.
A few flints irregularly placed, together with wood ashes, showed the position of the hearths, where cooking operations had been carried on.
In the centre of the hut was the hearth, which was made of flints carefully placed together.
Scott preferred that arm because it had been thoroughly tested (Rowland, Register, 407) and perhaps also because flints could be obtained more readily and surely than could percussion caps.
He chipped very carefully, and the flints squeaked.
Any Lady or Gentleman may bring Black Flints or Pebbles with them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
