lucifer match
Example Sentences
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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 Lawrence L. Lynch
Thus, how incalculably, and in how many ways, have recent discoveries in chemistry enhanced human happiness, of which the lucifer match furnishes a home example.
From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by L. N. Fowler
To freeze to death merely because he did not have a dry lucifer match?
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
In the dreadful noise then prevailing it was no more heard than the fizz of a lucifer match.
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
Jaun now removed his empty pipe from his mouth and replaced it by a lucifer match, which, either as an aid to reflection or possibly for medicinal purposes, he chewed as he contemplated the ridge.
From Above the Snow Line by Clinton Thomas Dent
