He advanced and, looking at the wax match, said: "Where does the magic fire of which you speak live, Stranger?"

Lighting a wax match on his thigh, he started at last to stoke up, puffing away at the pipe until the blue tobacco smoke swirled about his head.

The grazier threw him back upon the bed, lit a wax match from the tin box held in his belt, and held the little finger of the left hand in the flame.

He struck a wax match to light his pipe.

It is still used in many tropical and subtropical countries in the production of wax match sticks.

I got out my box of wax matches, and they struck as merrily, there, in that awful place, as they could have done in a London drawing-room.

Then I lit them with one of our wax matches.

The first thing that Redgrave did when they stepped out on to the sandy surface of the plain was to stoop down and strike a wax match.

He pulled from his pocket a tin box of wax matches of a style that was strange to me, and cracked one expertly with his thumbnail without burning himself.

Other interests during this period included puzzles, toys (he invented a few new ones), and drawings of figures made from wax matches.