lucifer match
Example Sentences
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To aid me, I lighted a lucifer match, and by its flickering glare I saw right in front of me that beautiful pale face, enclosed as it were in a frame by the little window.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
It is a small thing to excite so much earnest scrutiny; only the half burned fragment of a lucifer match.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.
This was followed by the rasping scrape of a lucifer match, by the feeble light of which the man’s face was seen bending over the lantern which he was endeavouring to light.
From The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast by Overend, William Heysham
The lucifer match, however, was the all-absorbing centre of interest just then, and the scratch on the pebble was a much more important sound than any bellow of cannon from the fort.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie
We were engaged in our last lecture in considering the various methods that have been adopted from early times for obtaining fire, and we left off at the invention of the lucifer match.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
