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Significats de safety match en anglès

A paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface.

        Sinònims
        Examples for "book matches"
        Examples for "book matches"
        1
        The industry estimates that book matches & safety matches will be scarce for about six months.
        The new yorker
        2
        There were two cartons of paper book matches and at least two dozen boxes of Diamond Blue Tips, neatly stacked up.
        Misery
        Ús de safety match en anglès
        1
        Lighting it with a common safety match, he puffed away ecstatically.
        Midnight at the well of souls
        2
        But all the same, that safety match is tormenting me frightfully.
        The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
        3
        The so-called safety match of the present time was invented in the year 1855.
        Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
        4
        The safety match was invented shortly after the Civil War.
        The new yorker
        5
        A hand reached into the pocket of the leather jacket, withdrew a safety match.
        White fire
        6
        He struck a safety match and held it to the leg of the table.
        Nonsense Novels
        7
        For these reasons the introduction of the so-called safety match was an important event.
        General Science
        8
        The only thing I found was a struck safety match.
        The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
        9
        Perhaps this safety match may serve as a clew!
        The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
        10
        Mrs. van Warmelo says the instructions were dispatched in a false double-bottom of an ordinary safety match-box.
        The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service
        11
        The outside cover of a small safety match box is given to the first man on each team.
        School, Church, and Home Games
        12
        The safety match proves that to me, for the peasants hereabouts are not yet acquainted with safety matches.
        The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
        13
        Your marriage was a safety match.
        Heartbreak House
        14
        Choke yourself with your safety match!
        The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
        15
        As soon as the long, tarred safety match was laid, it was lighted on a level with the ground.
        The Underground City; Or, The Black Indies / (Sometimes Called T...
        16
        Story of a man who collected safety match books that he sits on large mounds of them, sleeps with them.
        The new yorker