The butterwould not come, and now and then she muttered a man’s oath.
It was rebuilt by alms, given as thank-offering for the privilege of eating butter during Lent, hence its name Tour de Beurre.
Such butter towers may be called the XVI century's method of charity bazaar to raise money for church repairs.
Compare that sublime monument with the elegant, mundane late-Gothic "butter towers" of France, and you comprehend how inevitably the spirit of builders reveals itself in the work of their hands.
Many of the shops are closed and deserted, others will follow their example shortly; the butter market has been removed from the town, the cattle fairs have fallen to half their former size.
The centre of a rich and prosperous part of the country, surrounded by splendid land, it had an enormous trade in butter and all agricultural produce, and a large monthly pig and cattle fair was held there.
I had a ten o'clock breakfast of bread and butter--a huge slice from a loaf of rye bread more than half as large as a wagon wheel and spread thick with sweet butter and a few kernels of coarse salt.
But inasmuch as they now called me Schid, in spite of my sharing my bread and butter with them more lavishly than ever, I gradually forsook their haunts.
A pound of Normandy butter bought that morning in Boulogne and brought over in Sergeant Tronchet's haversack.
The best of rich, yellow butter with good bread were always to be bad at Charley's, and his charges were 12 1/2 cents for meals, and the same for lodging.
I take mine without milk, and like it better without, and often I don't have butter on me bread.
But the majority of the women leave dripping for the children, and if a scrap of butter cannot be had, rest contented with bread and tea, and an occasional pint of beer.
The butter and honey are animating views of God and heavenly joy.
But in this the women are especially faulty, in the sale of their butter and cheese, &c.
Then they brought up in course a dish ofbutter and honey.
Then you might have come home and fed him with butter and sugar to your heart's content,--and not to the perpetual discontent and rebellion of his body.
He shall eatbutter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
It has discovered that man is only a sort of hotbed for bacteria, and that butter can be made out of river mud, and coffee out of powdered tan.
There is no use casting about for fair words to butter parsnips.
The butter I ate was part of my own energy, spent over the churn, come back to me in the freshness and firmness of edible gold.
Two cows provided milk and butter for the household; his fowls gave him eggs and occasionally a dinner; and thus with the exception of the yearly grocer's bill he spent next to no money.
A cow or two provided him with milk and butter, any surplus butter being sold to the storekeepers in the towns which quickly followed in the wake of settlement.
To remedy this, legislation was passed providing for Government inspection and grading of all butter intended for export.
On the first appearance of Queensland butterin London, lower prices were obtainable than were paid for other brands with an established reputation, and some dissatisfaction was expressed by buyers on account of variations in quality.
The passage of the protective tariff of 1888 gave a great impetus to the production of butter and cheese.
Valuable instruction was given; the cream separator came into general use, and there was soon a noticeable improvement in both butter and cheese.
It is evident that the dairying industry in Queensland is yet only in its youth, and that in another quarter of a century the exports of both cheese and butter will have increased enormously.
Butter and cheese factories have been erected every few miles along the railway line, and the number of cream-cans awaiting transport on every platform bear striking testimony to the importance of the industry.
There are trust funds from which advances are made to those who desire to build co-operative flour or sugar mills, butter and cheese factories, or meat-preserving works.
I can make butter and cheese, which you shall sell at market, and we shall then be able to live very comfortably.
Why, I could have eaten a brick that night, if there'd beenbutter on it.
At the usual time for tea he had sat down, and, with his cup and brown bread-and-butter alternately at his lips, had looked long and fixedly at the place where the girl was wont to sit.
The paper parcel borne to the theatre by the clown under mention enclosed the bread-and-butter that was to figure in the harlequinade.
Saturday, flour three pounds, fruit half a pound, potatoes two pounds, butter two pounds, and cheese two pounds.
Friday, grey pease two quarts, butter two pounds, cheese two pounds.
Doesn't anything ever happen to the plain bread and butter people?
Or perhaps they drop it, butterside down, on the carpet.
She didn't want anybody's bread andbutter spilled on the carpet.
You and I, plain bread and butter people, come to see these things because we get a sort of vicarious thrill out of them.
This was brought immediately, whereupon he threw all the butter into it, and called for spirits.
A whole small tub of butter was brought, when he shouted again an order for another dish.
A dish of millet with butter was placed before him cooked.
The old butter had heard of the Tartars eating their horses when in robust health, but the idea of a sick man, not able to move in his bed without assistance, taking a fancy to a roasted mare, quite staggered him.
The butter made his salaam, said he would do his best, and took his leave, requesting that the boats might be kept at the bank of the river till he came back.
