Whodunit cliché

Usage examples of butler.

If the butler could have snorted, or the rector have rapped out an uncomplimentary adjective, the duchess would have felt cheered.

The Managers of the House objected to the admission of the testimony and the question of its admissibility was argued at length by General Butler, by Judge Curtis, and by Mr.

He came out, affably remarking to the butler that he had not realized how late it was, and passed without even glancing at me.

There was no disposition, as General Butler explained, to unite the Civil-rights Bill with the Amnesty Bill, because the former could be passed by a majority, while the latter required two-thirds.

Unfortunately, the butler probably had no idea that Phule was on Old Earth- and Phule had no idea where Beeker was, even if he had some way to contact him.

At least, she had promised to bring Beeker to his hotel-and Phule could hardly wait to see the butler.

He recognised his dear Guenever, and her dear friend Sir Launcelot, and Sir Cawline and his lady, and Sir Gawaine and Sir Kay and many other valiant and courteous knights and ladies bright of blee, and last not least in love his butler Bedevere.

When she came to the subject of the cablegram for her father, and the peculiar behavior of the butler, West frowned.

Returning to StregaSchloss with the morning papers and milk, Latch the butler had vanished bearing a bottle of calamine lotion and a wire brush in the hopes of calming down his new crop of midge bites.

Butler was elsewhere, exploring the locality round Cleaver Hall, checking its defences.

The butler, Thomas Hillier, had succeeded the previous in cumbent years ago, and was devoted to her.

He held himself very straight as he entered the house, and the boyish grin with which he customarily greeted the butler had given place to a dignified nod.

Miss Belle Butler, a popular educator, who unites with her husband in every measure for the true elevation of the Negro.

She was used to footmen and butlers, to a table elaborately laid, with a huge epergne in the middle of it on which every sort of fruit, both in and out of season, was elaborately arranged.

SAMUEL BUTLER: A SKETCH by Henry Festing Jones Samuel BUTLER was born on the 4th December, 1835, at the Rectory, Langar, near Bingham, in Nottinghamshire.