lucifer match

Example Sentences

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Jaun now removed his empty pipe from his mouth and replaced it by a lucifer match, which, either as an aid to reflection or possibly for medicinal purposes, he chewed as he contemplated the ridge.

From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas

The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

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

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 Tidy, Charles Meymott

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 Freytag, Gustav