lucifer match

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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

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

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

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

As a lucifer match in the hands of a madman, when struck, may be the occasion of blowing up castles or burning down cities, so the tongue may “set on fire the course of nature.”

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John