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Meanings of lucifer in English
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.
Portuguese
estrela do dia Catalan
estrella del matí A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
Usage of lucifer in English
1
There was coal-smoke and a taste of lucifer matches in the air.
2
I struck a lucifer match and held it to the boy's face.
3
Taking a lucifer match in her hand she approached the fuse.
4
The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
5
She groped her way to the taper and the lucifer matches.
6
I recollect the first lucifer matches, and the wonder of them.
7
It would be entirely safe, even if it were built of lucifer matches.
8
I lighted another lucifer, just as she hesitated at the step.
9
A lucifer flared and the crusaders scattered away from their handiwork.
10
She held the pocket lucifer high above her head, speaking quietly.
11
Alvez held him back, at the same time placing a lucifer in his hand.
12
The Moth is now pinned down in a lucifer match box, awaiting your inspection.
13
He consulted his watch once more by the flickering light of a lucifer match.
14
Any fool can stick a lucifer match into a haystack and make a blaze.
15
To freeze to death merely because he did not have a dry lucifer match?
16
I only caught a glimpse of him by the feeble light of a lucifer match.
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