"Buttery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all thy ways.'" And to that verse she soothed the tired child till he fell asleep, and she could lay him on the settle, and cover him with a cloak, musing the while on the strange story, until presently she started up and repaired to the buttery in search of ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... received in its rawest condition, went through all the process which fitted it for use. This inconvenient receipt produced an economy suited only to itself. It multiplied offices beyond all measure,—buttery, pantry, and all that rabble of places, which, though profitable to the holders, and expensive to the state, are almost too mean ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... most eleven o'clock when Josiah and me got to bed agin. And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heard the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out. And that rousted Josiah up, and he thought he heard the cattle in the garden, and he got up and went out. And there we was a marchin' round most all night. And if we would get into a nap, Josiah would think it was mornin', and he would start up and go out to look ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various
... which were erected dwellings which have since been interwoven with the stateliest names in old Connecticut. The house was double, built in the style of the day, with a hall running through it, and large rooms on either side, the kitchen, bakery, and well-house all at the back, and forming with the buttery a sort of L, near but not connecting the different outhouses. It was shingled from top to bottom, and the dormer windows, with their quaint panes, rendered it both stately and picturesque. As the girls drew rein ...
— An Unwilling Maid • Jeanie Gould Lincoln
... subdued by no passion. Her time for love was gone. She had lived out her heart, such heart as she had ever had, in her early years, at an age when Mr. Slope was thinking of the second book of Euclid and his unpaid bill at the buttery hatch. In age the lady was younger than the gentleman, but in feelings, in knowledge of the affairs of love, in intrigue, he was immeasurably her junior. It was necessary to her to have some man at her feet. It was the one customary excitement of her life. She delighted in the exercise of power ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... euthanasia so mild and gradual (for the sands are fringed with mud) that the disaster was on us before I was aware of it. There was just the tiniest premonitory shuddering as our keel clove the buttery medium, a cascade of ripples from either beam, and the wheel jammed to rigidity in my hands, as the tug nestled ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... religion; in churches and in courts; cant among lawyers, doctors, preachers; cant around the hearth; cant even around the hearse. It is the carnival of cant, this age of ours, and heartily as I despise it, I too have been duly noosed and collared, and taught the buttery dialect, and I am meekly willing to confess myself 'born ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... the wires were placed near to each other, and the contact of the inducing one with the buttery made when the inductive effect was required; but as the particular action might be supposed to be exerted only at the moments of making and breaking contact, the induction was produced in another way. ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... without dread. 'Well,' said this braggart, 'well, Dame Mouse, what should I do? Alone I cannot rout The foe that threatens you. I'll rally all the rats about, And then I'll play him such a trick!' The mouse her court'sy dropp'd, And off the hero scamper'd quick, Nor till he reach'd the buttery stopp'd, Where scores of rats were clustered, In riotous extravagance, All feasting at the host's expense. To him, arriving there much flustered, Indeed, quite out of breath, A rat among the feasters saith, 'What news? what news? I pray you, speak.' The rat, recovering breath to ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... to a second door that open'd on a wide, stone-pav'd kitchen, lit by a cheerful fire, whereon a kettle hissed and bubbled as the vapor lifted the cover. Close by the chimney corner was a sort of trap, or buttery hatch, for pushing the hot dishes conveniently into the parlor on the other side of the wall. Besides this, for furniture, the room held a broad deal table, an oak dresser, a linen press, a rack with ...
— The Splendid Spur • Arthur T. Quiller Couch
... saddles me with his son. I must e'en take the lad, too, for the sake of peace and quietness." He glanced around, and seeing Gascoyne, who had drawn near, beckoned to him. "Take me this fellow," said he, "to the buttery, and see him fed; and then to Sir James Lee, and have his name entered in the castle books. And stay, sirrah," he added; "bid me Sir James, if it may be so done, to enter him as a squire-at-arms. Methinks he will be better serving so than ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle |
