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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had his great knife, a flint for striking fire, his bow, and a clutch of arrows.
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In a cist at Brahunisary in the Kildalton area there was a skeleton and a large quantity of flint flakes and chips.
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In Suffolk, most villas had footings of stone or flint , with timer-framed or clay lump walls.
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It was built with local greenstone, flint and chalk, by the monks from Wilmington Priory.
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Like the ages of flint , bronze and iron these phases were not exclusive.
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Opposite were the elegant backs of Victorian houses, their grey bricks swelling into bow-windows, the roof-tiles glistening like wet flint .
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Pierry derives its name from a stratum of flint in the subsoil which reputedly gives its wine a marked flinty taste.