lucifer match

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Thus, how incalculably, and in how many ways, have recent discoveries in chemistry enhanced human happiness, of which the lucifer match furnishes a home example.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.

The loss of the dish elicited a series of oaths from Mr. Middleton, who called his daughter such names as "lucifer match," "volcano," "powder mill," and so forth.

From Tempest and Sunshine by Holmes, Mary Jane

We select this illustration of cheapness as a contrast, in relation to price and extent of demand, to the lucifer match.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

The man was kneeling before the stove and was in the very act of striking a lucifer match when I arrived.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

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.