Failure to act against foreigners who are stretching public services, he added, would be handing a "firelighter" to Britain's small but rabidly anti-immigrant political party, the British National Party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fear Factor] Reference

I call forth the firelighter but the arsonist breaks through and he is I.    From Wordnik.com.  [pablo neruda | we are many « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

It's the conversational firelighter that sees you through a sputtering 0-0 draw at The Hawthorns.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I acquired my pub quiz technique | Emma John] Reference

Reports suggest that after speaking to the FT Beverly Hughes was heard to say to her advisor, "have you got a spare tenner I can use as a firelighter please?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

He resumed it in our chambers, while I operated on the hearth with a firelighter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foe-Farrell] Reference

Liverpool fans need something quickly to replace those Torres 9 numbers, once the biggest selling replica in Premier League history, now of little more use than as a firelighter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

An Austrian woman wearing one of Michael Menkin's anti-alien helmets Anthony Archbold confessed to making these UFOs - constructed from garbage bags with a bit of wire, some sticky tape and a firelighter cube - after they caused a flurry of reported UFO sightings over Darwin's northern suburbs in 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Loved the Posleen series, thought that Cally’s War was a pile of complete drivel best used as a firelighter, and I seriously doubt that I’ll bother doing more than read the blurb to Sister Time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrities: Ruining Everything « Whatever] Reference

1 Wiltshire firelighter lighter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

A firelighter manufacturer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914] Reference