In reality it flashed like a beam of sunlight over my shoulder, the flint edge touched my ear, and a drop of blood dripped from the grazed skin on to my chest.

These vessels were filled with cotton cloth, maize, cacao, beans, copper goods and wooden swords with sharp flint edges, and on this meeting one dugout canoe carrying 25 men, women and children was captured.

The flint edge came into her voice, the one that scared him.

Jagged flint edges tore at my feet.

In the chalk region can be found the Antonshöhe, where radiolarit for flint cutting edges was mined in the Late Stone Age.

He examined the flint edge of the arrowhead and let his mind roam back over the years, then said, 'Not Barcelona.

These flint edges, and the cottonwoods bending over the couple of streams we crossed, were the only punctuation in the awesome, monotonous landscape of stubby grasses.

When struck against steel, a flint edge will produce sparks.

The hard flint edge shaves off a particle of the steel that exposes iron which reacts with oxygen from the atmosphere and can ignite the proper tinder.