Behind it, streaking over the floor in a waltz of agony, was a little guy, an animated matchstick with a flat, broad face that seemed to have been compressed in a vice.
"The Holes and John Smith"
Edward W. Ludwig
He waved the smoking matchstick to imply virtues in Wheaton which it was unnecessary to mention.
"The Main Chance"
Meredith Nicholson
Sir Galahad's spear would break like a matchstick, while his own superior spear would penetrate Sir Galahad's shield as though the shield was made of tissue paper, as in a sense it really was when you compared the metal that constituted it to modern alloys.
"A Knyght Ther Was"
Robert F. Young