Snuffers were used for this purpose, in which the portions of the wick cut off were retained, and this was emptied from time to time as the receptacle became filled.
Be careful to notice, that the snuffers are quite cold when the paper is introduced, as the heat would cause it to explode sooner than might be thought agreeable.
One fourth of a grain of Fulminating Silver is to be inclosed in a small piece of paper, and put inside the snuffers; on the snuffers being applied to the candle, a smart report will follow.
The Strange Lady puts the letter down alight on the snuffers tray, and sits down beside Napoleon, in the same attitude, elbows on table, cheeks on hands, watching it burn.
LADY (taking up the snuffers and holding the letter to the candle flame with it).
Giuseppe comes back, pale and still trembling, carrying a branched candlestick with a couple of candles alight, in one hand, and a broad snuffers tray in the other.
Snuffers were always seen, with which to trim the candles, and snuffers trays.
Miss Dorcas vaguely remembered legends of inventors who had laid hold on such chance adaptations at the very critical point of their contrivances, and so the half snuffers waited years for their opportunity.
He was about as thick-headed as the man who saw some snuffers and asked what they were for and when told to snuff the candle with, he immediately snuffed the candle with his fingers and put it in the snuffers and said, "Law sakes, how handy!
And when she was looking on the floor at her feet for the snuffers which had fallen, he held the candle down that she might see.
Taking note of this another who had the snuffers clapped the hood forthwith over an ordinary Brownie so it looked as though he did not have a head.
The snuffers soon became full, and it was a matter of deep interest to the congregation to see on whose head the snuff would fall, and to dodge it if it came their way.
On telling the man with the snuffers that it was a very dirty trick to put such things in the soup, the reply was--"How can it be dirty, sir?
It consisted in tying a pair of old snuffers to the lot.
That is the kind of wick you use in your candles to-day; and the snuffers have gone into curiosity cases in museums along with the clumsy tinder-boxes of the past.
The snuffers for trimming the lamps are, he asserts, 'the divine words off which we cut the letter of the law, and by so doing reveal the Spirit which giveth light.
It is a magnificent present, has he given you the snuffers likewise?
This den was lighted by one candle stuck in the neck of a broken bottle, and as there were no snuffers Bassi's wife snuffed it cleverly with her finger and thumb, wiping her hand on the table-cloth after throwing the burnt wick on the floor.
His hand trembled a little, and the snufferswere heavy and awkward to use.
He took up the snuffers now, and trimmed the wick.
But I kept on staring into the darkness, and as I am a living man, sir, I saw her go in at the door of the Cow and Snuffers Inn, and return no more.
Mr. Guppy, looking at him, snuffers in hand, as he sits down with his elbow on the table.
That's easily improved," Mr. Guppy observes as he takes the snuffersin hand.
There was an old pair of snuffers there, and he took them up and pressed the wick, which stuck fast, and the candle with the snuffers attached fell on the table.
A candle of common size in a vertical position, requires the application of the snuffers forty-five times during its complete consumption.
By those who are much in the habit of reading or writing by candle-light, it will also be esteemed no inconsiderable addition to the advantages already mentioned, that the trouble of seeking and applying the snuffers is superseded.
In this state of things the eye becomes uneasy for want of light, and the snuffers are applied to remove the inconvenience.
The earlier snuffers had very large boxes, and some were remarkably handsome, an exceptionally fine example being shown in Fig.
Snuffers of iron, and later of steel, are the commoner forms, but they are frequently of brass and of silver and Sheffield plate.
The extinguishers used in the early days of candles are known now as snuffer-extinguishers, to distinguish them from snuffers (the old name was doubters).
This brought about the use of snuffers of polished steel and of brass, and a little later of snuffer trays, the snuffers and their accompanying trays forming a most interesting addition to the collection of metal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snuffers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
