Meanings of apply the match in English

They apply the match and long afterwards are terror-stricken at the conflagration.

Or they shoved in multiple loads before remembering to apply the match.

Breathlessly we waited the signal to apply the match.

When finally the pyramid had been carefully built the scout master was asked to apply the match.

If he wants to make a sky-rocket of himself, let him kerosene his coat-tails and apply the match.

No, no, it is foolhardiness, and I have not the courage to apply the match to this powder-barrel!

The cannon were hauled to the gateway, and a soldier came running with fire in his hand, ready to apply the match.

Some argued that I ought to apply the match, the battery being christened after me, and the main idea, moreover, being mine.

The man whose business it was to apply the match ran away in great haste, and sheltered himself behind a wall of rock.

All Europe appeared to be sitting, unknowingly or knowingly, upon a powder barrel which only needed some inconsequent hand to apply the match.

He was then about to apply the match to others, when re-enforcements came up, and his services as an artillery-man were no longer required.

When she came to apply the match Coy asked her if she would burn him after they had "been sweethearting" so long.

And then, stretch as I would, I could not reach far enough to apply the match to the end of the cigarette between his lips.

Whenever they wished to warm themselves, they would gather together a little dry wormwood, apply the match, and in an instant produce a cheering blaze.

He lighted a fresh cigarette, tenderly fingering it before applying the match.

The king applied the match to the surface of the spirit.