As a result, secrecy had come down like a candlesnuffer. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
But Vanity was already hopping across the room to where the seven-foot-long candlesnuffer was kept. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
And she took up the candlesnuffer and tugged in the mouth of the gargoyle mask on the wall eleven feet above. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
It was a broomstick, to which she had attached an orange traffic cone, so that it looked like a giant candlesnuffer. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Penguin Rescue] Reference
She motioned with one hand, pointed to the long-handled candlesnuffer which (we assumed) had been in the room since before the candelabra had been electrified. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
The candlesnuffer, who perhaps may have been a bad wit, crossed the stage just after wards, and likewise bowed to the goddess. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
So, around 1897, a Scots baronial cloak was pulled around Baledmund - with crenulations along the roofline, crowsteps on the gables, a candlesnuffer tower and several cantilevered lookouts from which to repel would-be attackers. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
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