lucifer match

Example Sentences

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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

The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

Envious perhaps a little of its successor, it nevertheless fully recognizes that its own reign had been a thousand times longer than that of the lucifer match.

From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott

It was here that in 1829 he invented a lucifer match by adopting sulphur as the medium between the explosive material and the wood, but he refused to patent the invention.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

You'd squandered a valuable lucifer match ter set fire t' a piece of greasy rag that you'd cleaned the lamp with.

From Kiddie the Scout by Leighton, Robert