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- noun Plural form of
lucifer .
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Examples
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He named the matches “congreves,” but the process was patented by Samuel Jones, who then sold them as “lucifers.”
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“We used to call these lucifers, these wood matches.”
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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“We used to call these lucifers, these wood matches.”
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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“We used to call these lucifers, these wood matches.”
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Dipping lucifers at ten glories a decade leaves little room for boisterous fun.
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I form the noble resolution to keep awake, and rouse up any gentleman who may catch on fire during the night, and see to wood being put on the fires, so elaborately settle myself on my wooden chop-box, wherein I have got all the lucifers which are not in the soap-box.
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France has for her energetic policy in Africa are sound ones; for they are the employment of her martial spirits where their activity will not endanger the State, the stowing of these spirits in Paris having been found to be about as advisable as stowing over-proof spirits and gunpowder in a living-room with plenty of lighted lucifers blazing round; and her other reason is the opportunity
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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?
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Jason knelt by the well-laid wood in the hearth, and began scratching lucifers on the hearthstone to light it.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Jason knelt by the well-laid wood in the hearth, and began scratching lucifers on the hearthstone to light it.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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