Wallace the horss sone sesyt in his hand, Ane awkwart straik syne tuk him in the sted, His crag in twa; thus was the Butler dede.
Aucht hundreth men with Butlermaid thaim boun, Folowed on dreich, quhill at this man com hame.
Wallace and his fast sped thaim to that sted 505 Quhar Butler baid; feill men thai draiff to ded.
Butler be than had putt his men in ray, On thaim he sett with ane awfull hard assay, 60 On athir side with wapynnys stiff off steill.
General Butler and many of the officers were slain, together with nearly half the troops.
In the autumn of 1791 news came that Generals St Clair and Butler were advancing from the south with an army of some fourteen hundred men.
When Stuart was defeated the main purpose of my instructions had been carried out, and my thoughts then turned to joining General Butler to get supplies.
If I could succeed in getting through by this road, not only would I have a shorter line of march to Haxall's landing, but there was also a possibility that I could help Butler somewhat by joining him so near Richmond.
He divested himself of his ulster and threw it across the arm of the butler who stood behind him.
A typical French butler showed him into the room where the great man sat.
The butler had brought her another glass, which she raised to her lips.
An apologetic and much disturbed butler made the announcement which had evidently been demanded of him.
The butlerfetched them in a very few moments and showed them into a pleasantly furnished library, where he mixed cocktails for them from a collection of bottles upon the sideboard.
The butler and one of the footmen, who during the whole of the conversation had stolidly proceeded with their duties, in obedience to a gesture from their master, took her up in their arms and carried her from the room.
There is no necessity to apologise for their faults and deficiencies, which do not, I think, obscure their value as documents illustrating the development of that gift of irony which Butler was afterwards to wield with such brilliant mastery.
It describes a holiday trip made byButler in June, 1857, in company with a friend whose name, which was Joseph Green, Butler Italianised as Giuseppe Verdi.
He will find a wife in time," replied Eola, as she added up the column of figures given her by the butler that morning.
A message was taken by the butler who met the housekeeper as she returned from her walk in the compound.
Yes, the butler has added it up correctly," said Eola, laying down her pen.
The butler stood at her elbow on the right and Mrs. Hulver took up her position on the left.
And she must be sharp as a needle with the butler over the house accounts.
The butler was not indifferent to the pronoun used by Mrs. Hulver when she spoke of "our religion.
The butler was waiting for him; but being a pariah he was not at all to the taste of the searcher.
I'll tell you all about it when we've done the cook and butler business.
The butler came at once at his master's call, so quickly that Eola smiled, in spite of her annoyance.
The bazaar account book was closed with relief, and the butler and cook dismissed.
The butler accepted the correction without another word, and proceeded to the end of his list.
The cook who was waiting behind the butler ran off to the kitchen and returned with four limp dry roots which he exhibited with many misgivings.
After this there was nothing more to be said, and the searcher began his work, leaving the butler to follow at a respectful distance.
He was dressed like the head butler of the London Tavern, and was particular as to his white waistcoats and black silk stockings, punctilious as to his knee-buckles, proud of his diamond pin; that is to say when he officiated at the Temple.
And only another day and Aunt Lawrence's butler marched away in the grip of the law, and Aunt Lawrence's house-maid lay screaming in simulated hysterics.
Shorty went there Wednesday on his way to school, and the butler said Master George was still in his room, and that he was not to be disturbed.
Not long ago I had occasion to discharge a butler for habitual intoxication; he was never quite drunk, but also never quite sober; he was a sot.
But though I have no objection to my butler being married, I do object to maintain his wife, which, if he be on good terms with the cook, there is a strong probability of my having to do.
I do not mind giving them claret, but I think it hard that under such circumstances I should have had a butler give me warning because the female domestics are 'not select enough.
The risk in taking a butler without a personal guarantee of at least his honesty and sobriety can indeed hardly be exaggerated.
And I, my lord, am Lempriere, Seigneur of Rozel--and butler to the Queen.
Did she not say that my jerkin fitted featly when I did act as butler to her adorable Majesty three months syne?
That is a friend, that De la Foret lover of yours, or I'm nobutler to the Queen.
VIII Five minutes later Lempriere of Rozel, as butler to the Queen, saw a sight of which he told to his dying day.
On the morning of the third of February, when the butler entered the house, as he was accustomed to do at eight o'clock in the morning, he found his master dead.
At this moment a bell, somewhere in the deeps of the house, jangled, and she heard the old butler moving through the hall to the door.
Her husband had been a butler in the service of a Mr. Marsh, an eccentric man who lived in one of the old downtown houses of the city.
A moment later the butler appeared with a card on his tray.
It is not necessary to have a liveried butler at the door to announce the name, nor a small silver tray on which to place the caller's card.
The most formal and effective plan is to have a full-liveried butler at the door to lead each guest to the drawing-room, and then announce his or her name to the hostess.
It is a great pity that a person endowed with so much talent, as Mrs. Butler really is, should turn it to so little account and publish a book which is so full of trash and nonsense which can only do her harm.
Unkind critics, who had once compared Albert to an operatic tenor, might {212} have remarked that there was something of the butler about him now.
Oh,' was the reply, 'the butler generally manages to keep out of the way on such occasions.
