lucifer match
Example Sentences
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The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
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
Such genius in our country runs to waste, a waste, as pitiful, it seems to me, as that of pulling down a star from the firmament for use as a lucifer match.
From My Reminiscences by Hesh, Sasi Kumar
I think you will admit that it was with some show of reason I suggested that after all it is possible the lucifer match may not have quite so long an innings as the tinder-box.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
Jaun now removed his empty pipe from his mouth and replaced it by a lucifer match, which, either as an aid to reflection or possibly for medicinal purposes, he chewed as he contemplated the ridge.
From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas
