I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery; sometimes lowering their boats for breakers, mistaking them for Sperm Whale spouts; yes, and sometimes sailing from their port with their hold full of boxes of tallow candles, and cases of snuffers, foreseeing that all the oil they will get won't be enough to dip the Captain's wick into; aye, we all know these things; but look ye, here's a Crappo that is content with our leavings, the drugged whale there, I mean; aye, and is content too with scraping the dry bones of that other precious fish he has there.   anvd [Please select]

Wopsle's great-aunt's sitting-room and bedchamberbeing but faintly illuminated through the agency of one low-spirited dip-candle and no snuffers.   anvd [Please select]

Skratdj had not been a wife and a mother for fifteen years, to be snuffed out at one snap of the marital snuffers.   anvd [Please select]

And there's all the furniture just as it was, down to the bellows and the snuffers.   anvd [Please select]

They swim under you and the first thing you know clip goes one of your legs off, just the same as a pair of snuffers would clip off a piece of wick.   anvd [Please select]

"If Kitty does come back in here--" she said, in a disappointed undertone; and with the snuffers between her thumb and forefinger, she snipped them bitingly several times at the door.   anvd [Please select]