lucifer match
Example Sentences
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The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
The lucifer match, however, was the all-absorbing centre of interest just then, and the scratch on the pebble was a much more important sound than any bellow of cannon from the fort.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie
It is a small thing to excite so much earnest scrutiny; only the half burned fragment of a lucifer match.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.
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
One of the largest English fire insurance companies estimates that the introduction of the lucifer match has caused it a damage of £10,000 per annum.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
