lucifer match

Example Sentences

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At last the doctor lighted a lucifer match, and away scampered at least a hundred rats into the holes from whence they had come out.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

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

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

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

One of the largest English fire insurance companies estimates that the introduction of the lucifer match has caused it a damage of £10,000 per annum.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm