lucifer match
Example Sentences
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He consulted his watch once more by the flickering light of a lucifer match.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
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
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 Charles Meymott Tidy
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 Charles Meymott Tidy
This was followed by the rasping scrape of a lucifer match, by the feeble light of which the man’s face was seen bending over the lantern which he was endeavouring to light.
From The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast by William Heysham Overend
