lucifer match
Example Sentences
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We have in this electrical torch a substitute—partial substitute, I ought to say—for the lucifer match.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
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
We were engaged in our last lecture in considering the various methods that have been adopted from early times for obtaining fire, and we left off at the invention of the lucifer match.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
"Have you never heard as it ain't all gold as glitters?" said Drayton; and he struck a lucifer match on the top of the mahogany table.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
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.
