snuffer-like

Updated: May 23, 2025

Chulk, a humorist in his way, stretched forth a long and hairy arm, and grasping the hood of Taglat's burnoose pulled it down over the latter's eyes, extinguishing him, snuffer-like, as it were. The older ape, pessimistic by nature, recognized no such thing as humor. Creatures laid their paws upon him for but two things to search for fleas and to attack.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar