ill-snuffed

Updated: May 23, 2025

His mighty "constellation," or sun, round whom he, as satellite, observantly gyrated, was, for the mass of men, but a huge, ill-snuffed tallow-light, and he a weak night-moth, circling foolishly, dangerously about it, not knowing what he wanted.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III