butter-slide

To hear such people talking about servants or about working men will be enough to send the wise and good away with a wild impulse to make, if not a barricade, at least a butter-slide.

G.K. Speaks - About the Workers 2007

I nearly broke my neck on that butter-slide he fixed up in the metal alleyway to the _Whale's_ engine room.

Accidental Death Peter Baily

The most English humour consists of a sort of bathos, of a man returning to the earth his mother in a homely fashion; as when he sits down suddenly on a butter-slide.

What I Saw in America 1905

A great many British journalists have recently imagined that they were pouring oil upon the troubled waters, when they were rather pouring out oil to smooth the downward path; and to turn the broad road to destruction into a butter-slide.

What I Saw in America 1905

But imagine a man making a butter-slide and telling everybody it was made with the most expensive butter.

Alarms and Discursions 1905

Singularly enough, his Uncle John actually did call that morning, and to take him to the Crystal Palace, too; and as there was no butter-slide for him to fall down on, they were able to go.

The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

'Well,' said the clown, relenting, 'if you're a good boy you shall see me make a butter-slide in the hall.'

The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

Huntsman of Hogley Woods, 'he met with a severe fall, through treading on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed from the entrance of the Tapestry Chamber to the top of the oak staircase.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Oscar Wilde 1877

Woods, "he met with a severe fall, through treading on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed from the entrance of the Tapestry

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

Woods, "he met with a severe fall, through treading on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed from the entrance of the Tapestry

The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde 1877