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