How To Use Snuffer In A Sentence
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Mike Sudal/The Wall Street Journal Disposable long-reach butane lighters • Disposable long-reach butane lighters—perfect for candles and fireplaces—and a long-handled brass candle snuffer to extinguish flames.
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Coincidentally, most of the scenes used in Carol's marketing are from this last group, like when Scrooge zooms across England with the Ghost of Christmas Past, rockets into the sky on a giant candle snuffer, or snowboards on an icicle.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged
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-- I sadly fear these stout old Greeks, having power for the nonce, would, throwing philosophy to the dogs in a moment of paroxysmal indignation, despite physiognomies trained to resemble their own, have these fellows casked up in tubs without lanterns, but with the appropriate "snuffers," fit emblems of their faiths, and dropped far outside Sandy Hook.
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
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Barnaby starts to snuff the candles out one by one with a long silver snuffer.
SEA MUSIC
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It was a broomstick, to which she had attached an orange traffic cone, so that it looked like a giant candlesnuffer.
The Great Penguin Rescue
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They would not doubtless have the advantages of the wicks which are impregnated with boracic acid, and which vitrify as they burn and are entirely consumed, but Cyrus Harding having manufactured a beautiful pair of snuffers, these candles would be greatly appreciated during the long evenings in Granite House.
The Mysterious Island
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She is either a very prodigal woman, or richer than she would be thought, by her buying of the best things, and laying out much money in new-fashioned pewter; and, among other things, a new-fashioned case for a pair of snuffers, which is very pretty; but I could never have guessed what it was for, had I not seen the snuffers in it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.
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I remember Colette cutting the oranges into segments, sun on her black hair, the scent of beeswax candles, the silver candle snuffer like a bell.
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Francesca used the snuffer to extinguish all but one candle.
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To prevent flying sparks and spattering wax, use a snuffer instead of blowing out the flame.
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She motioned with one hand, pointed to the long-handled candlesnuffer which (we assumed) had been in the room since before the candelabra had been electrified.
Orphans of Chaos
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As a result, secrecy had come down like a candlesnuffer.
Ensign Flandry
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Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of
David Copperfield
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If she just wants to put out the candle, there are 1.29 snuffers available online.
Times, Sunday Times
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Along with porcelain teapots and copper candle snuffers, the inventories locate Indian Ocean slaves in frontier households, while collateral sources indicate the presence of Khoisan inboekselinge.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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Their consumption was limited, though: their candlesticks and candle snuffer were copper, not silver.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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The need of some convenient tray or receptacle for the snuffers, not always over-clean when they had been used a few times, was met at first by what are known as snuffer stands made of wrought metal, and often very ornamental.
Chats on Household Curios
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There they prove that we are coals enclosed on all sides under a vast snuffer, which is the sky.
The Clouds
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Many experts believe that you should use a snuffer when extinguishing flames.
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With the recurve, I bust out big cut on contact heads like snuffers or any of the various 2 bladed heads with the little bleeder blades.
Broadheads
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He later claims that he and his wife are as ‘united… as the candlestick and the snuffers.’
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Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon – peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer – tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.
David Copperfield
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So, around 1897, a Scots baronial cloak was pulled around Baledmund - with crenulations along the roofline, crowsteps on the gables, a candlesnuffer tower and several cantilevered lookouts from which to repel would-be attackers.
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The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
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It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery
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John Hallett, notwithstanding the roughness of his aspect, was rather knick-knacky in his tastes; a great patron of small inventions, such as the _improved_ ne plus ultra cork-screw, and the latest patent snuffers.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
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The moxa stick with its tinfoil snuffer sat in a puddle of water, the smell of wet ash in the room.
After the Diagnosis
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But Vanity was already hopping across the room to where the seven-foot-long candlesnuffer was kept.
Orphans of Chaos
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They would work on snuffers to fit stands, such as the splendid example shown in Plate IV that bears the mark of this very shop.
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The candlesnuffer, who perhaps may have been a bad wit, crossed the stage just after wards, and likewise bowed to the goddess.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Ebenezer Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost of Christmas Past with his snuffer and was shot up like a firework.
The Snow Queen is One of Disney's Next Hand-Drawn Films « FirstShowing.net
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She had heard before of the cocaine "snuffers" who took a little of the deadly powder, placed it on the back of the hand, and inhaled it up the nose with a quick intake of breath.
Constance Dunlap
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Subtle and always fearful of public exposure, this group was described by Laurens as “prompters and actors, accommodators, Candle snuffers, Shifters of scenes, and mutes.”
Robert Morris
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Plates, chalices, candleholders, candle snuffers, bells, knives, incense burners, and such items are obviously made for more than just Circle use.
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And she took up the candlesnuffer and tugged in the mouth of the gargoyle mask on the wall eleven feet above.
Orphans of Chaos
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Other items found were a scissors-shaped candle snuffer used to trim wick, parts of a flintlock pistol, flatware, a coat button, an ornamental andiron, and a drawknife that may be part of a set of cooper's tools listed in a 1732 inventory of the Madisons 'property.
Boyhood Home
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Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.
David Copperfield
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Folding the tinfoil into a long rectangle, he rolled the stick of moxa inside it to make a “snuffer.”
After the Diagnosis
