There came nights like that of the Christmas just passed when the still, dry air intoxicated the coasters and carried their shouts far tinder the golden moon.
I am afraid my bosom has nearly as muchtinder as ever.
I walk in Esther's garden with Miss Lindsay, and after some little chit-chat of the tender kind, I presented her with a proof print of my Nob, which she accepted with something more tinder than gratitude.
We blew, not too hard, you may depend on it, and blew and blew, and the spark began to grow larger and larger, and the whole of the tinderwas on fire.
We hunted about for tinder out of the rotten trees; but, then, there was the flint to be found: and no flint could we fall in with.
Well, we dried our tinder in the sun, and then began to strike away with the flint and china.
Now Quonab drew from a small cave some dry cedar and got down his tinder-box with flint and steel to light up; but a serious difficulty appeared at once--the tinder was wet and useless.
Over this he put the cedar tinder and blew gently, till it flamed, and soon the wigwam was aglow.
A crack of the flint a blowing of the spark caught on the tinder from the box, a little flame that at once was magnified by the birch bark, and in a minute the pine splinters made a sputtering fire.
Every one counted on flint and steel for their fire, but the tinder was an essential, and now a fire seemed hopeless; at least Rolf thought so.
Presently Sandy took his tinder bag, got to work with flint and steel, and, being somewhat of an expert in this necessary woodsman's accomplishment, soon had a torch blazing merrily.
Presently sparks flashed and then the tinder caught, so that a little flame darted up.
At length one lucky spark does its office--the tinder is alight.
A gentle breath is wafted into the murky box; the face that leans over the tinder is in a glow.
The domestic manufacture of the tinder was a serious affair.
Ranter, interrupting him, "the remedy is worse than the disease--I wish I knew where to find some tinder water.
He has only to throw in a little dry grass or tinder and to blow upon it to obtain the flame.
A piece of bamboo split longitudinally is sawn with the cutting edge of another piece of bamboo until the sawdust becomes hot and sets fire to the tinder on which it falls.
As soon as I woke in the morning I reached for a book, and as days became darker, for tinder to light a candle.
Tinder lighted in one boat would scarcely have shown us the other, though in the sky an oval moon began to make itself seen amidst rags of fog.
It was dry also, for at the bottom of the cavity lay a foot or more of rotten tinder and moss brought there by rats or birds.
Upon this tinder she lay down, and covering herself with the moss and leaves soon sank into sleep or stupor.
After groping about in a corner of the room he lighted a stinking rushlight by means of a tinder box.
A tinder box is not a thing to get light by hurriedly.
I ate a good supper at a cook-shop, sauntered about the streets for awhile, then sauntered slowly home, after buying a tinder box, with which to light my candies.
The tinder box took up all my attention for a good couple of minutes.
The flame is produced by twirling an upright stick between the hands on a horizontal stick laid on the floor of a sacred chamber, the sparks being caught by a tinder of cedar-dust.
It is forbidden to blow up the smouldering tinder with the breath, for that would offend the gods.
Some people openly declared their suspicion that some rascal had not put out the fire in his house, when suddenly the tinder burst into flame.
The sparks were allowed to fall on tinder and fanned into a flame, with which the dry brushwood was kindled.
For this purpose a long hempen rope was wound twice round the oaken roller in the oaken posts: the pivots were well smeared with pitch and tar: a bundle of tow and other tinder was laid close at hand, and all was ready.
Now I shall put this piece of sulphur into the receiver, through the opening at the top, and introduce along with it a small piece of lighted tinder to set fire to it.
I found flint and steel at once, dipped my fingers into the box to make sure of the tinder and the brimstone matches, and so, after another pause to listen, essayed to strike out the spark.
Touchy as tinder she was; and if that comes of being a lady, I'm glad my Martha's more sociable.
Even if it is miles below the settlement, we will have our clothes with us, and tinder bags to start a fire with.
For he had been right when he had warned Newasi to leave him to his own life, his own death; when he had shrunk from the inherited bloodstains on his hands, the inherited tinder in his breast.
There is too much tinder here," he struck his own breast fiercely, "for such fiery thoughts.
There are pistol-action tinder boxes from Japan, highly ornamental, the cases being pierced and in some instances decorated with raised silver and copper relief.
Tinder was often carried about in tubes of brass and copper, some of the best examples being very elaborately engraved.
From China and Central Asia come tinder pouches, many of them having decorative brass mounts, some being gilt on copper.
As intimated in another chapter, many of the tobacco and snuff-boxes served a dual purpose, and not infrequently formed part of the tinder box, an essential in early days.
Herr Ritter sat up late that night, reading a packet of old worn- looking letters, which he had taken out of a small wooden box beneath his bed; and as he read them, burning them to tinderone by one in the flame of his lamp.
Into this tinder pile he thrust a lighted match and disappeared, just as Madge came to the bench where she had paused when she first came to Woodlawn, early in the afternoon.
Away he went, taking flint, steel, and tinder with him, and ten minutes later the blaze was flaring furiously above the roof of Steeple Church, warning all men of the need for help.
Here, too, the hot ground was covered with scrub dried to tinder by the summer drought, and to this the Saracens set fire so that the smoke rolled down on the Christian host and choked them, and the place became a hell.
Here's thetinder in a box, but all the sparks are blown over it by the draught.
The tindercaught also, though reluctantly, and while Rachel blew on it, he felt round for dead leaves and little sticks, some of which were coaxed into flame.
The flakes of burning moss from the Tree of the Tribe had fallen among the tops of the forest, parched almost to tinderwith drought and heat, and fired them here and there.
Oh the wicked wretch, the false, ungrateful, slanderous child of wrath, with adder's poison tinder his lips!
Are poets to "be made of nothing but tinder and gall?
I have been trying to strike a light for the last half-hour till the tinder box is full of water, and I have knocked all the skin off my knuckles.
On landing they cut two sticks and hung their kits upon these, Ralph taking charge of the lantern, while both were provided with tinder and steel.
We will blow the boats to tinder if they try to come in, and then we can load up with all the most valuable goods and slip out at night-time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fuel; punk; spunk
