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Definition of Snuffed
1. snuff [v] - See also: snuff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snuffed
Literary usage of Snuffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1904)
"... AND PRODUCERS—PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION AND PRODUCERS' AGENCY snuffed OUT—NATIONAL
REFINERS' ASSOCIATION DISBANDS—ROCKEFELLER STEADILY GAINING GROUND. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... abandoned the field to his insipid rivals. opinion upon the propriety of having
the candle« snuffed. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1864)
"... yea in itself but as yet a smoking wick, as Christ calls it, ready of itself
to die and expire, when snuffed every minute, in a rainy and stormy night, ..."
4. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"Then said the King, he never snuffed a Candle with his Fingers. 28. A certain
Member of the French Academy, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"It is a colourless liquid, possessing a strong odour; "and the exhalation, if
incautiously snuffed up the nostrils, may produce sickness or fainting. ..."
6. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"fate of the little infant that hardly came into the world and whose life was
snuffed out, and of whom it was said: S If so early am ..."
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