1 While Gerald launched forth on his news, Mammy set the plates before her mistress, golden-topped biscuits, breast of fried chicken and a yellow yam open and steaming, with melted butter dripping from it.
2 In her large black hands was a tray upon which food smoked, two large yams covered with butter, a pile of buckwheat cakes dripping syrup, and a large slice of ham swimming in gravy.
3 Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound.
4 The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced with split-oak rails.
5 "There's more ways of killing a cat than choking him to death with butter," giggled Melanie when the whiskered old man had thumped down the stairs.
6 "Gimme the butter, Carrie," was Kennicott's comment.
7 Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter.
8 It is sweet as early grass butter in April.
9 In the first place, the amount of butter, and Texel and Leyden cheese consumed, seems amazing.
10 Peter, his companion, was a very different sort of fellow; short, bow-legged, and as fat as butter.
11 The milk was good for Pavel, who was often sick, and he could make butter by beating sour cream with a wooden spoon.
12 Even on the hottest afternoons the cottonwoods made a rustling shade, and the air smelled of popcorn and melted butter, and Bouncing Bets wilting in the sun.
13 She had milk and cream cheese to sell, and bread and butter.
14 Shove in the canoe nigher to the land, Uncas; this sand will take a stamp as easily as the butter of the Jarmans on the Mohawk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 15 A long table, on which stood an urn, plates and cups, cakes and bread and butter, stretched across one end.