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  • "Mebbe the butther is a little hoigh," exclaimed the hostess, noting that Yan was sparing of it.

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • I, “nor a stale one either; nor a tayspoonful of souchong, nor a thimbleful of bohay; nor the laste taste in life of butther, salt or fresh; nor hot rowls or cowld!”

    Burlesques 2006

  • “Will the childhren get their potatoes and butther here?” said a barefoot girl, with long black hair flowing over her face, which she thrust in at the door.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • Upon which he said, "You see, they'll be afther staling my thrade, your ladyship, if they know how I manage about the butther."

    Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

  • "Holy Mother!" he continued, as he pocketed the pennies, and gave the boy a short allowance of the vile stuff, "how I wish I had known how to make that butther when every bone in me body used to ache sawin 'wood, and the likes o' that, -- to say nothing of the greater respictability of being in the mercantile profession."

    Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

  • Just then a little snarly headed boy came in with two pennies and a cracked plate, "to buy some butther."

    Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

  • Oh, you've a dale to say for yourself, you, butther-fingered omadhaun.

    John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • I've lived wid clothiers and pawnbrokers and Vaudeville actors, but I niver shtruck a house where mate and butther couldn't be as paceable on the same plate as eggs and bacon -- the most was that some wouldn't ate the bacon onless 'twas killed

    The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Mate-plates, butther-plates, _kosher_, _trepha_, sure I've smashed up folks 'crockery and they makin' less fuss ouver it.

    The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Give her refrishments where they mix the mate with the butther plates!

    The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

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