lucifer match

Example Sentences

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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

To freeze to death merely because he did not have a dry lucifer match?

From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

He consulted his watch once more by the flickering light of a lucifer match.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

At last the doctor lighted a lucifer match, and away scampered at least a hundred rats into the holes from whence they had come out.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

But for the purpose of studying a guide book in the dark, one lucifer match is worth a sky full of lightning.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight