lucifer match

Example Sentences

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These had strictly private dealings with the host, and showed a great objection to having a lucifer match struck near their faces.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

To aid me, I lighted a lucifer match, and by its flickering glare I saw right in front of me that beautiful pale face, enclosed as it were in a frame by the little window.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

Directions for making these luminous phials are very simple, and may be found in most of the books of experiments published prior to the introduction of the modern lucifer match.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

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

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