his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out .
Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
An impeccable Cockney rhyme, though it may offend purists of speech, is burnt cinders ‘windows’; whilst fairy snuff ‘fair enough’ is certainly a true rhyme despite its extra s.
But the people, who prided themselves on being what they called üppen zie schnuffen, or, as we should say, up to snuff, and equal to every occasion, had already seen a way out of the difficulty.
About 40% of U.S. counties lack full-time public-health service. . . . Many registered hospitals are not up to snuff.