lucifer match
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Con′greve-match, a kind of lucifer match, invented by Congreve.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
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.
We found this expedient a very poor substitute for the lucifer match, but it was certainly better than nothing at all.
From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.
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
