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He then made a little box about as big as a match-box, inserted a pivot in the centre, made a small indent in the centre of the needle and hey presto we had our compass and it worked perfectly.

John Keay 2010

Cell phones in India is like a match-box … even if you are non-smoker, you surely have these cells.

Bruce Sterling On OLPC, Mobile Phones 2009

His fingers had clutched the match-box, but they relaxed their hold and the hand came out empty.

All Gold Canon 2010

His fingers had clutched the match-box, but they relaxed their hold and the hand came out empty.

All Gold Cañon 2010

She fumbled the match-box from his pocket and struck a match to enable him to light his long-extinct cigar.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

Now you've got it! p.s. and they want us to take off the match-box cover "for the sake of peace"

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

It doesn't take a tinker-toy sand slot zippo match-box car scientist to figure out if we want to have change it certainly includes the need to impeach.

How About an Impeachment Truth Movement? 2007

Flinging off their clinging fingers I hastily felt in my pocket for the match-box, and — it had gone!

The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Even the wretched match-box which I really hoped was gone turned up in a drawer after I had, delightedly, given it up.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

Setting up his box stage, he glued a pill-box and a match-box on the floor — the side of the box it had always been till now — and there he had the mahogany desks.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004