He started up in bed and began to grope for the matchbox.

The blue end of a matchbox stuck up out of the saucer.

But the wooden matchbox was still the most valued of his possessions.

Stiles relit his pipe with a second match from the ivory matchbox.

Entering the other, he felt all over his table for the matchbox.

Without waking his companions he found a matchbox and lit the cigarette.

Her two children, aged nine and eleven, were busily employed in matchbox-making.

At last his hand, groping over the table, closed on the matchbox.

Who are these people who can pay almost R2million for a matchbox?

Here lives a blind matchbox-maker and his wife with their seven children.

I fumbled and dropped the matchbox again from my stiff, gloved fingers.

He threw it into the water, and opened his matchbox to take another.

Take one of these; and here's a light. She threw a matchbox across.

I held up the matchbox, my will surging down my arm.

Each sleeve has a matchbox-sized sensor in the hand, forearm and upper arm.

Since then I've tried everything from matchbox cars to cigarette packs.