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Usage examples of buttery.

Chemically the flowers contain a yellow, odorous, buttery oil, with tannin, and malates of potash and lime, whilst the berries furnish viburnic acid.

The afternoon waned as she inspected the work going on in the buttery, the servery, and the hall.

The lady had retired to her chamber, and the baron had passed a supperless and sleepless night, stalking about his apartments till an advanced hour of the morning, when hunger compelled him to summon into his presence the spoils of the buttery, which, being the intended array of an uneaten wedding feast, were more than usually abundant, and on which, when the knight and the friar entered, he was falling with desperate valour.

The result of this was that when Bella pulled the pair of buttery soft leather trews up her legs, she immediately felt sinfully daring and sexy.

Latten is an alloy of copper with zinc, lead, and tin mixed in so that when it is finished it takes on a beautiful colour which is like the softest and butteriest brass.

Bulletins from Party Headquarters are spelled out in obscene charades by hebephrenics and Latahs and apes, Sollubis fart code, Negroes open and shut mouth to Hash messages on gold teeth, Arab rioters send smoke signals by throwing great buttery eunuchs -- they make the best smoke, hangs black and shit-solid in the air -- onto gasoline fires in a rubbish heap, mosaic of melodies, sad Panpipes of humpbacked beggar, cold wind sweeps down from post card of Chimborazzi, flutes of Ramadan, piano music down a windy street, mutilated police calls, advertising leaflet synchronize with street fight spell SOS.

He seemed especially proud of his cooking, and both his rich coffee and his marvelous cake-crisp plump halves of black walnuts thickly distributed through buttery batter and a semisweet chocolate frosting-indicated a mastery of solid, downhome, country-style cuisine.

She woke to the bitter tang of black Colombian perking in the pot, the scent mingling with a buttery aroma of pancakes, the sizzle of bacon in its lake of fat, all lacing in their steamy collaboration to make a perfect moist morning And then she snapped awake, really awake-on the hard rover bunk, hugging herself in her thermoelectric blanket.

A grand tiltyard and practice field stood at the far end of the property, and the imposing square keep at the heart of the holding was comprised of the great hall, numerous bedchambers, garderobes, a buttery, a pantry, and several cellars.

He was sitting on a nest of palm fronds, drenched in a spill of buttery lightwe had partially unzipped the roof of the tent in order to increase ventilationand it looked as if the fronds were an island adrift in a dark void and he a spiritual being who had been scorched and twisted by some cosmic fire, marooned in eternal emptiness.

The man had a silken, almost buttery voice that, Ludwig noticed, had at least half the diner listening raptly.

A dozen undergraduates had spilled out of the buttery, beers in hand, tanking up before second hall.

There are no gates, no porter's lodges, no butteries, no halls, no battels, and no common rooms.

The cupboards and the butteries are filled with flour, dried flesh, wine, olives and oil for burning.

I munched thoughtfully on a buttery, crunchy cookie, whose texture was perfectly balanced with the sweet chewiness of the currants.