vestas

He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regula - tions he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas.

Sole Music 2010

Ellen fumbled over to the mantelpiece and found the vestas and the silver candlestick with its honey-smelling, country-smelling, garden-of-her-childhood-smelling candle.

The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

Gideon produced his vestas, struck one, and by its light recognized the tow head of Harker.

The Wrong Box 2004

And the next moment he remembered the vestas in his waistcoat pocket and had struck a light.

The Wrong Box 2004

He also had a flint and steel; a worn cooking pan and a small coffee-pot with pretty designs etched into it; tobacco in an embroidered pouch along with cigarette papers and a nearly empty box of vestas; a knife and sheath (which, judging from the bloodstains, had been removed from his person still sheathed); and a single. 22-calibre bullet, overlooked no doubt by the boys who had found his body.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

He also had a flint and steel; a worn cooking pan and a small coffee-pot with pretty designs etched into it; tobacco in an embroidered pouch along with cigarette papers and a nearly empty box of vestas; a knife and sheath (which, judging from the bloodstains, had been removed from his person still sheathed); and a single. 22-calibre bullet, overlooked no doubt by the boys who had found his body.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

Taking care not to rattle the picklocks, I put them into the pocket that held such harmless objects as a small purse, cheap handkerchief, pencil stub, cigarettes, and a box of vestas, and took out the sop for my conscience: the note, written in a careful, half-literate scrawl:

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

No. No. thank you, there would be cobwebs and steps and hidden latches at the other end, and me with one small box of vestas.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

Taking care not to rattle the picklocks, I put them into the pocket that held such harmless objects as a small purse, cheap handkerchief, pencil stub, cigarettes, and a box of vestas, and took out the sop for my conscience: the note, written in a careful, half-literate scrawl:

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

The vestas I clutched as talismans against the night.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995