lucifer match
Example Sentences
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Such genius in our country runs to waste, a waste, as pitiful, it seems to me, as that of pulling down a star from the firmament for use as a lucifer match.
From My Reminiscences by Sasi Kumar Hesh
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
These had strictly private dealings with the host, and showed a great objection to having a lucifer match struck near their faces.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
So you see there are signs, not only of the lucifer match being ousted by the applications of electricity, but of the old tinder-box coming amongst us once again in a new form.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Charles Meymott Tidy
