TALBOT: “_God is our fortress in whose conquering name
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks._”
(“King Henry VI,” Part 1, Act II, Sc. 1.)
GLOUCESTER: “_Uneath may she endure the flinty streets._”
DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER: “_The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet._”
(Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Sc. 4.)
QUEEN MARGARET: “_Because thy flinty heart more hard than they...._”
(Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Sc. 2.)
YORK: (aside): “_Scarce can I speak my choler is so great:
Oh, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint
I am so angry at these abject terms._”
(Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Sc. 1.)
YORK: “_Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible:
Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless._”
(Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Sc. 4.)
RICHARD: “_Then Clifford were thy heart as hard as steel
As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds
I come to pierce it or to give thee mine._”
(Henry VI, Part 3, Act II, Sc. 1.)
LUCIUS: “_Searching the window for a flint I found
This paper, thus sealed up._”
(Julius Caesar, Act II, Sc. 3.)
BRUTUS: “_O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb
That carries anger as the flint bears fire._”
(Julius Caesar, Act IV, Sc. 3.)
ENOBARBUS: “_Throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault._”
(Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Sc. 9.)
THERSITES: “_There were wit in this head, an ’twould out: and so
there is, but it lies a coldly in him as fire in a flint,
which will not show without knocking._”
(Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Sc. 3.)
DEMETRIUS: “_But be your heart to them
As unrelenting flint to drops of rain._”
(Titus Andronicus, Act II, Sc. 3.)
MARCUS: “_My heart is not compact of flint nor steel._”
(Titus Andronicus, Act V, Sc. 3.)
GOWER: “_Make raging battery upon shores of flint._”
(Pericles, Act IV, Sc. 4.)
POET: “_The fire i’ the flint shows not till it be struck._”
(Timon of Athens, Act I, Sc. 1.)
TIMON: “_What, dost thou weep? Come nearer. Then I love thee.
Because thou art a woman and disclaim’st
Flinty Mankind._”
(Timon of Athens, Act IV, Sc. 3.)
FRIAR LAWRENCE: “_Here comes the lady: oh, so light a foot
Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint._”
(Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Sc. 6.)
GLOUCESTER: “_I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward’s._”
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