lucifer match

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The former may be obtained by burning a little sulphur or a sulphured lucifer match under the perforations of a killing box of the pattern described, and the latter—well, every smoker knows that.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

Envious perhaps a little of its successor, it nevertheless fully recognizes that its own reign had been a thousand times longer than that of the lucifer match.

From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott

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.

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

From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes

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