| Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox, and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark. |
| Nearby Silas's cottage, they find a tinderbox, which makes a townsman recall that a peddler who'd come to town recently carried a tinderbox. |
| I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand. |
| Cottage country is a tinderbox waiting for an spark to set off the explosion. |
| Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox. |
| The Yukon was also a tinderbox with dry conditions and a record warm May to August, tying 1989 as the warmest such period on the books. |
