She always put a couple of burnt matches in the water too.

I knew what he was smelling: something like burnt matches.

"I wouldn't give you the dirty end of a burnt match," French said.

There was even a burnt match under the milk toast.

Bosch lit a cigarette and put the burnt match in his pocket.

There was a third burnt match on the glass plate.

In his right hand, he held the burnt match; with it the little paper ball.

"How do you keep track now, by the way - writing with a burnt match on the margins of a telephone directory?"

And in another corner, there was this pile of burnt matches.

Then he waved at the papers they'd marked up with the burnt matches.