parlor-match

But he'd put enough of the fiery stuff under his belt to make him touchy as a parlor-match, and when the trooper, getting no answer, flipped the keg over on its side and the whisky trickled out among the grass-roots, Piegan forgot that he was in an alien land where the law is upheld to the last, least letter and the arm of it is long and unrelenting.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

"Let me light your fire for you," he answered, and extracting a parlor-match from his pocket, -- safety-matches were his bugbear, -- he stooped, and put the flame to the fire.

The Happiest Time of Their Lives Alice Duer Miller 1908

"An ocean," said I. "How the dickens do you expect to sail a boat like that off here in the woods, where there isn't enough water to float a parlor-match?"

The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892