10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSNUFFED»
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unsnuffed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
He commenced with two common candles of eight to the pound, alternately
snuffing and leaving them unsnuffed, and measuring the intensity of the light by
the shadows on the walls. The result of this experiment was, that he found that
the ...
2
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
He commenced with two common candles of eight to the pound, alternately
snufling and leaving them unsnuffed, and measuring the intensity of the light by
the shadows on the walls. The result of this experiment was, that he found that
the ...
He commenced with two common candles of eight to the pound, alternately
snuffing and leaving them unsnuffed, and measuring the intensity of the light by
the shadows on the walls. The result of this experiment was, that he found that
the ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1845
He commenced with two common candles, alternately snuffing and leaving them
unsnuffed, and measuring the intensity of the light. The result of this experiment
was, that he found that the candle well snuffed gave eight times the light of that ...
5
Domestic addresses and scraps of experience
An unsnuffed candle has a carelessness, an untidiness, an idleness about it, that
is enough to make one melancholy. When the green grass grows in front of the
door, there is not much going in and out ; when cobwebs are seen in the corner ...
6
Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642
An unsnuffed candle gave not only a fraction ofthe original light, but great gullies
might appear in the pool of molten tallow beneath the flame. The molten tallow
would pour down such a gully and in one candle left untended only 5 per cent of
...
The inventor applied this method to measure the variations in light, furnished by a
candle left unsnuffed. There are few persons who do not feel annoyed to have to
use the snuffers so often, but we know that if they are allowed to remain idle, ...
8
Lavengro: the scholar--the gypsy--the priest
hours at my occupations, I would fling myself back on my chair, look about the
poor apartment, dimly lighted by an unsnuffed candle, or upon the heaps of
books and papers before me, and exclaim, — " Do I exist? Do these things, which
I think ...
George Henry Borrow, 1851
9
The Servants' magazine, or Female domestics' instructor
When the green grass grows in front of the door there ia not much going in and
out ; when cobwebs are seen in the corner of a room there can be no claim for
cleanliness ; and when the candles remain for a long time unsnuffed, though
some ...
10
Ephraim Holding's domestic addresses, friendly remarks, and ...
when the candles remain for a long time unsnuffed, though some may doze over
their work, and others prose over their books, very little is going forward to merit
commendation. To me an unsnuffed candle is as bad as a yawn : there is a ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNSNUFFED»
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Gayle noted that more than once, he has had to put out fires started from people coming from parties who throw away unsnuffed cigarettes. They will continue to ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jan 13»
