matchbox

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Inside the matchbox was a cricket that proceeded to chirp at me.

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  • At that distance she was no larger than a matchbox, and the name, a two-letter word painted boldly in white on her dark side, was unreadable. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
  • Inside the matchbox were nine little green triangular pills. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
  • God was as real to me as the matchbox cars I played with on the dirt roads I made underneath the shade tree in my front yard. —  One Thing I Know
  • (26 November 2007) - From the matchbox-like packaging to the slender bars of dark chocolate contained within, Alice Chocolate is an exquisite treat through and through. —  Cool Hunting
  • Visitors watched matchbox-sized cars zip down wide highways.
 

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