lucifer match

Example Sentences

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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

In the latter case, shave with cold water by the light of your candle, lit by your own lucifer match.

From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry

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 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

Directions for making these luminous phials are very simple, and may be found in most of the books of experiments published prior to the introduction of the modern lucifer match.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John