The 28-year-old is sweet when she needs to be and flint-hearted when threatened. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Only flint-hearted, bloodless creeps could think otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A pathological need for approval is aggravated by an endless string of auditions hosted by fish-eyed, flint-hearted Cowells: rejection, poverty and crying in the shower while scrubbing yourself with Poundland bleach are daily realities. ❋ James Donaghy (2010)
Richard Greenberg, one of my least favorite contemporary playwrights, has rewritten O'Hara's book from curtain to curtain, replacing his sharp-eared dialogue with lame, campy punch lines and smoothing out the rough edges of the plot in a way that is alien to the flint-hearted spirit of the real "Pal Joey." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Neither of the men reminded her of her flint-hearted Howard relations who had all but disowned her when she was disgraced, and now were swarming around her emerging court claiming her as their own once more. ❋ Philippa Gregory (1996)
The boss menhir wanted a couple of his flint-hearted buddies there to keep an ear on us. ❋ Cook, Glen (1989)
The flint-hearted fellow bit so deeply into the damsel's lip that the blood trickled from the wound. ❋ Various (N/A)
Meanwhile, the landed estates of these absentee lords were in charge of flint-hearted agents, whose sole mission was to squeeze money from the peasants, to make them pay well for mill, bridge, and oven, to press to the uttermost every claim which might give the absent master a larger revenue. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)
I do not regret her except when I am tipsy or bored or listening to music, and wish to fancy myself the picturesque victim of a flint-hearted world. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
And after supper, when they were floating slowly on, well out of the channel where they might be run down by some passing steamer with a flint-hearted captain or pilot, she had to go at it again. ❋ Unknown (1915)
He was made poet-laureate, and used every influence of patrons and of literary success to the end that he be allowed to remain in London, but the queen was flint-hearted, insisting that he must give up his estate or occupy it. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)
"These men with you in the snow 'ud sooner follow Ned Rackham, flint-hearted though he be, than to rejoin the _Revenge_." ❋ Ralph Delahaye Paine (1898)
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