A paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface.
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Examples for "book matches"
Examples for "book matches"
1The industry estimates that book matches & safety matches will be scarce for about six months.
2There were two cartons of paper book matches and at least two dozen boxes of Diamond Blue Tips, neatly stacked up.
1Lighting it with a common safety match, he puffed away ecstatically.
2But all the same, that safety match is tormenting me frightfully.
3The so-called safety match of the present time was invented in the year 1855.
4The safety match was invented shortly after the Civil War.
5A hand reached into the pocket of the leather jacket, withdrew a safety match.
6He struck a safety match and held it to the leg of the table.
7For these reasons the introduction of the so-called safety match was an important event.
8The only thing I found was a struck safety match.
9Perhaps this safety match may serve as a clew!
10Mrs. van Warmelo says the instructions were dispatched in a false double-bottom of an ordinary safety match-box.
11The outside cover of a small safety match box is given to the first man on each team.
12The safety match proves that to me, for the peasants hereabouts are not yet acquainted with safety matches.
13Your marriage was a safety match.
14Choke yourself with your safety match!
15As soon as the long, tarred safety match was laid, it was lighted on a level with the ground.
16Story of a man who collected safety match books that he sits on large mounds of them, sleeps with them.