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