Highly flammable wood

Usage examples of tinder.

All I had to do was to get some sulphur and tinder, and the procuring of these two articles set all my wits to work.

And then Lobb, he thought supposing his slowmatch goes out and he spends twenty minutes with flint and steel trying to light more tinder.

After this heartfelt prayer I took my coat, unsewed it, and found-the tinder!

It was the deadly bacteriophage Doctor Alph had cultivated, multiplying with the incredible speed the scientist had spoken of, devouring the flesh of the Martians like flame devouring tinder!

All those long centuries they had smoldered, now and then breaking loose, feeding on the packed-up tinder that had been sifting into the shadows and the corners of Istanbul, its crooked angles dredged with dust and detritus and the filth of a million benighted souls.

He carried a bow, and tinder, and sharp steel, small precautions that counted in a Skyshiel gale, when cloud and relentless snowfall mantled the high peaks, and strength and experience lent no guarantee in the brute fight to maintain survival.

And everywhere the human creatures, harshly moulded by years of warfare or years of oppression or years of vain though supremely brave secret resistance to the foreign tyrant, are now too familiar with harshness, are unserene, are tinder to every spark.

Vervane came in through the archway to deposit an armload of sticks and tinder next to it.

We kept a supply of candlenut tapers ready for lighting on a shelf, along with a flint and steel and a box of tinder.

Nezzie had produced a small ember from another fireplace, and with it set fire to some fluff from the seedpods of fireweed collected for tinder.

His incendiarists checked their supplies: lucifers, flints, steels, tinder, and fuses.

While busied with Madame la Momie, our fire had burned low, for the dry case went like tinder.

She looked down as the flames grew brighter, consuming the dry grass, tinder, and the soft polewood that Steinman had cut and stacked.

And indeed, as she gazed at the piled tinder, her hand laid on the silken bag at her throat where, he guessed, she kept the starstone, the tinder burst suddenly into flame.

He projected the power past the slate roof of the round towerlike silo, sending a little spark into it to find tinder.