lucifer match
Example Sentences
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The Moth is now pinned down in a lucifer match box, awaiting your inspection.
From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes
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
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
I think you will admit that it was with some show of reason I suggested that after all it is possible the lucifer match may not have quite so long an innings as the tinder-box.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
He consulted his watch once more by the flickering light of a lucifer match.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
