Belarius: “... Weariness

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth

Finds the down pillow hard.

(Cymbeline, Act III, Sc. 6.)

First Priest: “... For charitable prayers,

Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her.

(Hamlet, Act V, Sc. 1.)

Bastard: “Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawled down

The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city.

(King John, Act II, Sc. 2.)