In the original "Saint" stories by Leslie Charteris, one can often find references to Simon Templar's smoking habits thus ;

" The Saint lighted another cigarette".

       I rather like that,although I fear that most people,especially the young,would use "lit" instead of "lighted".

The cause of some mystification to me currently is the American usage of the word "Momentarily" ,meaning soon, shortly,etc.,as in "I shall be with you momentarily" ( Spok to Kirk in a Star Trek film).Whereas we in Britain use the word to suggest an event of very short duration,as per "The lightning flash illuminated the scene momentarily", although there is a distressing tendency nowadays for British people to spell ( those that can ) lightning as "lightening". But of course,it doesn't really matter,says my girlfriend (who is a teacher !!). Bollocks !!