...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」
...After a time a thin smoke rose from the little mass of tinder, and amoment later the whole broke into flame...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...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」
...The grass was as inflammable as tinder, and the strong north wind drove the long line of fire spreading in every direction through the country...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The red day dawned when the tinder was lighted in the Balkans andAustro-Hungary seized a bit which brought her a step nearer to theworld's highway; she seized one bit and poised herself for another...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...But his vigilance proved of no avail, for the clink of the flintand steel caused a stampede, and not a rat remained by the time he hadkindled the tinder...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...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.」
...It is forbidden to blow up thesmouldering tinder with the breath, for that would offend the gods...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Some peopleopenly declared their suspicion that some rascal had not put outthe fire in his house, when suddenly the tinder burst into flame...
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」
...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」
... They cannot kindle a fire, for Greenhill, who carries the tinder, has allowed it to get wet...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...The effect of this master-mind on his was that of a spark on tinder...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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