After several ineffectual attempts to light this, he discovered it was a safety-match. ❋ Herbert George (2003)
In a trice three phials had been taken down from their shelves, and three stout silk-lined cases, of the pattern of safety-match boxes, had been produced. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)
Even where the safety-match has entirely supplanted the orthodox utensils, the orthodox sentiment shows itself in the matter of the choice of matches to be used. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
I sent you a safety-match box full of flowers last night from Leukerbad. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
The boys involved off are hauled off to the magistrate by the local village policeman, who, comically, had imagined that a blazer, the top garment worn by schoolboys of that era (and mine) was a kind of lucifer, which in turn was a kind of match used before the invention of the safety-match. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
It was of a kind known as the safety-match, which can be ignited only by friction on a strip of chemically prepared paper glued to the box. ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)
He had always seen Sarah gracious — had in fact rarely seen her shy or dry, her marked thin-lipped smile, intense without brightness and as prompt to act as the scrape of a safety-match; the protrusion of her rather remarkably long chin, which in her case represented invitation and urbanity, and not, as in most others, pugnacity and defiance; the penetration of her voice to a distance, the general encouragement and approval of her manner, were all elements with which intercourse had made him familiar, but which he noted today almost as if she had been a new acquaintance. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sarah gracious -- had in fact rarely seen her shy or dry, her marked thin-lipped smile, intense without brightness and as prompt to act as the scrape of a safety-match; the protrusion of her rather remarkably long chin, which in her case represented invitation and urbanity, and not, as in most others, pugnacity and defiance; the penetration of her voice to a distance, the general encouragement and approval of her manner, were all elements with which intercourse had made him familiar, but which he noted today almost as if she had been a new acquaintance. ❋ Henry James (1879)
If it happens that you've no matches to make a fire to keep warm by, there's part of a box for you, "and he coolly tossed a safety-match box toward the taller man, one of a number he had found on ❋ Lawrence J. Leslie (N/A)
