lucifer match
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Meymott Tidy
"Have you never heard as it ain't all gold as glitters?" said Drayton; and he struck a lucifer match on the top of the mahogany table.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
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
In the dreadful noise then prevailing it was no more heard than the fizz of a lucifer match.
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
We have in this electrical torch a substitute—partial substitute, I ought to say—for the lucifer match.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Charles Meymott Tidy
