lucifer match
Example Sentences
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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
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
The man was kneeling before the stove and was in the very act of striking a lucifer match when I arrived.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
Con′greve-match, a kind of lucifer match, invented by Congreve.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
