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