lucifer match

Example Sentences

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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.

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

The lucifer match, however, was the all-absorbing centre of interest just then, and the scratch on the pebble was a much more important sound than any bellow of cannon from the fort.

From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie

The Moth is now pinned down in a lucifer match box, awaiting your inspection. 

From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes

I could not see my compass, and we were not allowed to light a lucifer match under any pretext whatsoever.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)