Examples of using "D'allumettes" in a sentence and their english translations:
The houses looked like so many matchboxes.
A piece that is even smaller than a matchbox
This radio is no bigger than a matchbook.
Tom ran out of matches so he couldn't light the fire.
- Life is as a box of matches. Treating it cautiously is foolish, not treating it cautiously is dangerous.
- Life is like a box of matches - treating it too seriously is stupid, whereas being careless with it is dangerous.
There was once a bundle of matches, who were all extremely proud of their high descent, for their genealogical tree, that is to say, the tall fir-tree, from which each of them was a splinter, had been a tree of great antiquity, and distinguished by his height from all the other trees of the forest.