butter-dish

The Staffordshire-ware butter-dish with the cover on, got upon a little round occasional table in a window, with a worked top, and announced itself to the two chairs accidentally placed there, as an aid to polite conversation, a graceful trifle in china to be chatted over by callers, as they airily trifled away the visiting moments of a butterfly existence, in that rugged old village on the Cumberland

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

Who does not dread the sight of the liquid or greasy fat usually seen in the butter-dish, and what a remote chance there is of enjoying a slice of bread and butter with bread as hard and dry as a brickbat, and butter running to oil?

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

There was a butter-dish on the kitchen counter, and although the butter had been covered it had been out long enough to be growing a good crop of mould.

The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

Our chambers are always full of chemicals and of relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter-dish or even in less desirable places.

An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

There was another more embarrassing table; it had a coarse cloth and was garnished with a loaf and butter-dish, a plate of plantains and a tin of marmalade, knives and teacups for a meal evidently impending.

Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

She had her choice betwixt a butter-dish and a cup, and she took the cup.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

If the tourist were a Frenchman, the neat glass butter-dish was turned into a visiting-card -- a letter of introduction, a pontoon-bridge, in a word, hastily improvised to throw across the stream of conversation.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

Who does not dread the sight of the liquid or greasy fat usually seen in the butter-dish, and what a remote chance there is of enjoying a slice of bread and butter with bread as hard and dry as a brickbat, and butter running to oil?

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

I bought a butter-knife to match a solid silver butter-dish, and a set of individual salt-spoons to match salt-cellars, and nut-picks and crackers to match something else.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

All the morning in another quarter men were trying on old hats and overcoats, and having the most amazing haggling over articles which are sold in London streets for a pot of ferns or a china butter-dish.

A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929