lucifer match
Example Sentences
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You'd squandered a valuable lucifer match ter set fire t' a piece of greasy rag that you'd cleaned the lamp with.
From Kiddie the Scout by Leighton, Robert
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
Gazing toward the point, she observed a dim glow in the darkness, such as might have been made by the reflection of a lucifer match.
From The Great Cattle Trail by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
To freeze to death merely because he did not have a dry lucifer match?
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
It was here that in 1829 he invented a lucifer match by adopting sulphur as the medium between the explosive material and the wood, but he refused to patent the invention.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
