Last December the city's Housing Authority spent $125,000 to support 500 volunteers who are ready to chill out tindery neighborhoods at the first spark of violence. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Eight months of the year there is no rain, and many of these native plants have waxy leaves that form a tindery mass as they dry out and fall to the ground. ❋ Unknown (2008)
FIRE -- FED BY THE treacherous Santa Ana winds, sweeping through the canyons and roaring across the tindery flatlands -- has been an essential part of nature's plan for southern California for millennia. ❋ Unknown (2008)
What woman would have her-self supposed capable of such a tindery fit? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Often big trees die from no apparent cause, and the wood becoming dry and tindery, the limbs crash to the ground suddenly, and in a few months the whole substance disappears in dust and mould. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sapless age makes it tindery, and the decaying fibre descends in dust — glissades of dust which form moraines within the hollow of the base. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Adjacent to the crude fence once stood a huge coral-tree which had had its day and ceased to be, and the soft wood as it decayed formed heaps of tindery stuff that mingled with the sand, helped to this end by the industry of scrub-fowls. ❋ Unknown (2003)
From past conversations with Burwell, Frederick knew flash fuels were light, dry, tindery materials such as twigs and grasses that burned fast and hot. ❋ Barr, Nevada (1996)
She snatched the poker and jabbed it viciously into the tindery mass, heedless of the shower of sparks that flew from the hearth and hissed about her booted feet. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
Cadfael stooped and picked it up, and the thicker end, broken and dangling, shed a fluttering debris of tindery flakes as he swung it in his hand. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
He rubbed them in his palm, slivers of tindery, rotted wood. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
Blackened, cracked and dried, a leathern shape hardly recognisable at first sight for a long-toed riding shoe, with a tarnished buckle to fasten it across the instep; and protruding from it, something long and rigid, showing gleams of whitish ivory through fluttering, tindery rags of calcined cloth. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
He had lain close to the central chimney on the leeward side, and the fire had been fierce enough to burn away all but a few tindery flakes of his clothing, but had passed by too rapidly to take all the flesh from his bones, or even the hair from his head. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
He caught up a bundle of dried grass, and Jack took up several sticks, dry and tindery, ready to burst into flame as soon as a light was set to them. ❋ John Finnemore (N/A)
Mind you, I think that these friendships between men and women are good for both, if they aren't complicated by love: the worst of it is that passion is a tindery thing, and lights up suddenly when people least expect it. ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)
'Pretty old, I suppose; it's worm-eaten and rat-eaten and tindery enough in all conscience; and the damp doesn't exactly foster it. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)
Despite the drought, there was still enough moisture to stay the advance of the red line until the dampness could be turned to dust and tindery vegetation. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
The enemy's guns were silent a space, and the hot batteries of harassed Gueldersdorp snatched a brief respite while Boers gathered for the nine o'clock coffee-drinking round their little snapping fires of dried dung and tindery bush. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
