Cash was a sick man, but he had not lost all his resourcefulness. He had stopped Lovin Child once, and thereby he had learned a little of the infantile mind. He had a coyote skin on the foot of his bed, and he raised himself up and reached for it as one reaches for a fire extinguisher. Like a fire extinguisher he aimed it, straight in the middle of the uproar.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
A title does not now even serve as a distinction: it does not distinguish. A coronet is not merely an extinguisher: it is a hiding-place.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"She might have told me she was tired," Emily said to herself quietly. "Well! the best thing I can do is to put out the light and follow her example."
As she took up the extinguisher, the bedroom door was suddenly opened from the outer side. A tall woman, robed in a black dressing-gown, stood on the threshold, looking at Emily.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
THE LATE MR. BROWN. The woman's lean, long-fingered hand pointed to the candle. "Don't put it out." Saying those words, she looked round the room, and satisfied herself that the other girls were asleep. Emily laid down the extinguisher. "You mean to report us, of course," she said. "I am the only one awake, Miss Jethro; lay the blame on me."
"I have no intention of reporting you. But I have something to say."
She paused, and pushed her thick black hair (already streaked with gray) back from her temples.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
I am actually arrived at such a calm frame of mind that I like batter-pudding. I never should have believed it possible; but it is so. Yet a little while, and I may relish water-gruel. It will be the age of mon lait de poule et mon bonnet de nuit. And then--the cotton extinguisher is pulled over the old noddle, and the little flame of life is popped out. Don't you know elderly people who make learned notes in Army Lists, Peerages, and the like? This is the batter-pudding, water-gruel of old age. The worn-out old digestion does not care for stronger food.英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
REMEMBER! Always have a large blanket at hand to smother flames in burning clothing-- also a bucket of water and a quantity of sand. A siphon of carbonic water is an excellent fire extinguisher.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
Unless you believe that whole "Fire extinguisher malfunction flood" bullshit.美剧 · 《Billions》