lucifer match
Example Sentences
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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 old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
In the latter case, shave with cold water by the light of your candle, lit by your own lucifer match.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry
Con′greve-match, a kind of lucifer match, invented by Congreve.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The Moth is now pinned down in a lucifer match box, awaiting your inspection.
From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes
