Give me the lucifersand the torch and let me light the beacon.
I offered a knife instead, but this he would not have, because the lucifers would be so valuable for his magical observances.
The perpetual worry had given Baraka a fever, and had made me feel quite sick; so I said, if he ever mentioned a gun or lucifers again, I would fight the matter out with him, for I had not come there to be bullied.
Away from Austin's influence, he was almost the same boy who had slipped the guinea into Tom Bakewell's hand, and the lucifers into Farmer Blaize's rick.
I tell you," said Richard, "I put the lucifers there myself!
Besides, supposing we are loaded with powder barrels aft and lucifers forward; how the devil could the lucifers get afire in this drenching spray here?
Didn't you once say that whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward?
What's that bunch of lucifers dodging about there for?
Besides, supposing we ARE loaded with powder barrels aft and lucifers forward; how the devil could the lucifers get afire in this drenching spray here?
How much, again, mustlucifers have contributed to swell the large class of conflagrations whose causes are unknown!
Incendiarism and children playing with lucifers are the two grand elements of destruction; and the former, we are given to understand, is below the general average.
Nobody would ever have tried an inkstand on the Gorgons, Furies, Lucifers of ancient belief.
The Church had long allied itself with the earlier Lucifers of the north, and now represented the proud empire of a satanic aristocracy, and the persecuted Nonconformists represented the authority of the King of kings.
A ripple of laughter went around when among the broken-up fractions of a card of lucifers there appeared one that was blackened at the end.
The luciferswere all kept in a safe downstairs, excepting a few for the sleeping-rooms.
The market regulations in view of fire are very strict, especially those adopted and promulgated in 1865, by which smoking and the use of lucifers and all unenclosed lights are forbidden.
Every traveller should provide himself with a good handy steel, proper flint, and unfailing tinder, because lucifers are liable to many accidents.
Of course no one would omit to take lucifers on a tramp; but steel, flint, and tinder are three warm friends that in an emergency will always come up to the strike.
Wax lucifers are undoubtedly better than wooden ones, for in damp weather, wooden ones will hardly burn; but wax is waterproof, and independent of wet or dry.
The household tinder-boxes of thirty years ago, before lucifers were invented, were for use in this way.
How favourably the modern lucifers compare with these laborious efforts of barbarous tribes!
Loud exploding and dangerous lucifers were formerly made by dipping bundles of matches, previously coated with sulphur at the tips, into a thick solution of gum, at a temperature of 104 deg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lucifers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
