...Theymay crack about their Industrial Workers and the braw things they’regoing to do, but there’s a wholesome dampness about the tinder onClydeside...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...There was more, for at the point where I entered it there was an overhang whichmade a fine cavern, low at the entrance but a dozen feet high inside, and asdry as tinder...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...He lit a cigar from alittle gold tinder box and regarded me with amused eyes...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... Theimpatient priest grumbled and switched the torch from one hand to theother at the same time holding it closer to the tinder at the base ofthe pyre...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...The plain was a weary flat of loose red sand, sparsely covered by dry karoo bushes, that cracked beneath the tread like tinder, and showed the red earth everywhere...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
... Several fires occurred during our stay, by the thatch having, through long exposure to a torrid sun, become like tinder...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I fill my pockets with them to make them smoke at my leisure, until I exhaust the contents, which are at last reduced to a kind of tinder...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...The flame is producedby twirling an upright stick between the hands on a horizontalstick laid on the floor of a sacred chamber, the sparks beingcaught by a tinder of cedar-dust...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...The sparks are caught and blown up with tinder, andthis is the new and pure fire, the appearance of which is greetedwith cries of joy...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...The sparks were allowed tofall on tinder and fanned into a flame, with which the drybrushwood was kindled...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...By far the most interesting of the possessions of thesepeople is the apparatus for making fire, which consistsof three different parts, the split stick, the rattan, andthe tinder...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...202),and the tinder is usually a lump of the fibrous sheathof a palm shoot and sometimes a piece of dried moss...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...In a short space of time, varying from ten to thirtyseconds, the rattan snaps and he picks up the stick withthe tinder, which has probably by this time begun tosmoulder, and blows it into flame...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...After the coming of the white man, but before theintroduction of friction matches, which are now used by the whole tribe,the Omaha used flints and tinder for making fire...
James Owen Dorsey, 「Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements」
...They lodge as best they may among the bushes: Guivret had his tent set up, and ordered tinder to be kindled, that they might have light and cheer...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...He had learned also to carry tinder in a walnut shell, enclosed in wax, so that no matter how long he had been in the water he could strike a light on reaching shore...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 「Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic」
...* (* The natives carry hollow canes with burning tinder for makingfires...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...The effect of this master-mind on his was that of a spark on tinder...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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