Beethoven picked his teeth with the snuffers, and seems to have picked them sufficiently to his satisfaction.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Henny would set a little table near her mistress, and place on it the lighted candle and a pair of snuffers.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
No brown cones peeped like candle-snuffers above the sea of green fronds upon the hills of the tombs of kings, but from the sacred hill of Kawa Kendi commanding the approach to the valley rose, black against the sky, the triangle of the roof frame of a large bungalow; around the crown of the hill was a stout palisade through which grinned in the sun the muzzles of a Nordenfeldt and a pom-pom; and outside upon a levee strutted rigidly four sentries night and day, a perpetual reminder to the passer-by below of efficient vigilance.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle