lucifer match

Example Sentences

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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

The man was kneeling before the stove and was in the very act of striking a lucifer match when I arrived.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

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

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

In the dreadful noise then prevailing it was no more heard than the fizz of a lucifer match.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

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.