safety-match

After several ineffectual attempts to light this, he discovered it was a safety-match.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles Herbert George 2003

In a trice three phials had been taken down from their shelves, and three stout silk-lined cases, of the pattern of safety-match boxes, had been produced.

Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

After several ineffectual attempts to light this, he discovered it was a safety-match.

Tales of Space and Time 1906

Even where the safety-match has entirely supplanted the orthodox utensils, the orthodox sentiment shows itself in the matter of the choice of matches to be used.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

I sent you a safety-match box full of flowers last night from Leukerbad.

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Mark Twain 1872

I sent you a safety-match box full of flowers last night from Leukerbad.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

The boys involved off are hauled off to the magistrate by the local village policeman, who, comically, had imagined that a blazer, the top garment worn by schoolboys of that era (and mine) was a kind of lucifer, which in turn was a kind of match used before the invention of the safety-match.

Tom, Dick and Harry Talbot Baines Reed 1872

It was of a kind known as the safety-match, which can be ignited only by friction on a strip of chemically prepared paper glued to the box.

The Stillwater Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

He had always seen Sarah gracious — had in fact rarely seen her shy or dry, her marked thin-lipped smile, intense without brightness and as prompt to act as the scrape of a safety-match; the protrusion of her rather remarkably long chin, which in her case represented invitation and urbanity, and not, as in most others, pugnacity and defiance; the penetration of her voice to a distance, the general encouragement and approval of her manner, were all elements with which intercourse had made him familiar, but which he noted today almost as if she had been a new acquaintance.

The Ambassadors 2003

Sarah gracious -- had in fact rarely seen her shy or dry, her marked thin-lipped smile, intense without brightness and as prompt to act as the scrape of a safety-match; the protrusion of her rather remarkably long chin, which in her case represented invitation and urbanity, and not, as in most others, pugnacity and defiance; the penetration of her voice to a distance, the general encouragement and approval of her manner, were all elements with which intercourse had made him familiar, but which he noted today almost as if she had been a new acquaintance.

The Ambassadors Henry James 1879