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Flinders

noun

British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814). Synonyms: Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders.

Bits and splinters and fragments.

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... the day drew near, The spears in flinders flew; And many a gallant Englishman Ere day the ...

— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)

... of Port Curtis, and sent in two boats to sound. On their return with a favourable report, the ship was got underweigh, and ran in under the headsails to round Gatcombe Head, by the channel laid down in Flinders' chart; but, while following a boat ahead in charge of the master, the signal to anchor immediately was made, and we brought up as required, being then about the middle ...

— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray

... I heard that you had already entered into negotiations with an Atlanta tent factory to furnish you with a tabernacle, an' I must say it ain't a bad notion, because many a fine bush-arbor meeting has been busted all to flinders by sudden showers that good, stout canvas would shed as well as a roof of shingles. I want to contribute five dollars toward the fund myself; but I'm here to confess to you frankly that I wouldn't like ...

— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben

... clear, the day drew near, The spears in flinders flew, But mony a gallant Englishman, Ere ...

— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

... was obliged to slay himself when commanded to do so by the priests. A similar custom prevailed in Babylonia and among the ancient Prussians, while several modern African tribes slay their King when the first sign of age or infirmity begins to show itself in him. Professor Flinders Petrie has shown[*] that the greatest of the Egyptian feasts, the 'Sed' Festival, was a ceremonial survival of a time when the Pharaoh, the Priest-King and representative of God on earth, was slain at fixed intervals. The object in all such cases is manifestly ...

— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie

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