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Beside him as he sat in his rush-bottomed chair stood a small square table and on this a low brass candlestick, the companion of the one in the dining room. A half-burnt candle rose out of the socket. As David now lighted it and laid the long fresh candle alongside the snuffers, he measured with his eye the length of his luminaries and the amount of his wood two friends.
"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. And he adds, 'the pots in which the snuff is extinguished are the hearts of the faithful who observe the law literally." "It is the very madness of Symbolism!" cried Durtal.
He had left the wick of the candle unsnuffed, till it had risen higher than the flame, and had burnt into an odd pent-house shape at the top, from which morsels of the charred cotton fell off, from time to time, in little flakes. He took up the snuffers now, and trimmed the wick. The light brightened directly, and the room became less dismal.
There is no doubt that Spear has dictated clauses in a hundred wills devising that William G. Spear, Custodian of the Quincy Historical Society, shall have snuffers and biscuit-molds. At first, Mr.
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. 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.
"Try blowing it out try the snuffers!" jeered Mahaffy. "This time!" repeated the judge, unheeding him, and as the pistol-shot rang out the light vanished. "By Heaven, I did it!" roared the judge, giving way to an uncontrollable burst of feeling. "I did it and I can 'do it again light the candle, Hannibal!"
You will find him easy to manage. Good night! 'Good night, sir. By this time Mr Pinch had returned with the snuffers. 'And good night to YOU, Mr Pinch, said Pecksniff. 'And sound sleep to you both. Bless you! Bless you! Invoking this benediction on the heads of his young friends with great fervour, he withdrew to his own room; while they, being tired, soon fell asleep.
It was not easy to make out the letters printed on it in consequence of the dimness of the light which the landlord had left him a common tallow candle, furnished with a pair of heavy old-fashioned steel snuffers. Up to this time his mind had been too much occupied to think of the light.
The latter appeared in the inventories of all genteel folk, and decorated the walls of all genteel parlors. Candlesticks and snuffers were found in every house; the latter were called by various names, the word snit or snite being the most curious. It is from the old English snyten, to blow, and was originally a verb to snite the candle, or put it out.
James took the snuffers, but Richard started up, snatched them from him, and performed the operation himself with his usual success. The book being laid on the desk before Mr Turnbull, Thomas called out into the back region of the chapel,
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