lucifer match

Example Sentences

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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.

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)

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

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

As a lucifer match in the hands of a madman, when struck, may be the occasion of blowing up castles or burning down cities, so the tongue may “set on fire the course of nature.”

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John