lucifer match

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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

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

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

So you see there are signs, not only of the lucifer match being ousted by the applications of electricity, but of the old tinder-box coming amongst us once again in a new form.

From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott