lucifer match

Example Sentences

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In the dreadful noise then prevailing it was no more heard than the fizz of a lucifer match.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

This was followed by the rasping scrape of a lucifer match, by the feeble light of which the man’s face was seen bending over the lantern which he was endeavouring to light.

From The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast by Overend, William Heysham

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

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