lucifer match

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The former may be obtained by burning a little sulphur or a sulphured lucifer match under the perforations of a killing box of the pattern described, and the latter—well, every smoker knows that.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

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 Tidy, Charles Meymott

But for the purpose of studying a guide book in the dark, one lucifer match is worth a sky full of lightning.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight

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

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 Tidy, Charles Meymott