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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IV 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER V 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVI 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XL 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER LIII 6 "Gimme the butter, Carrie," was Kennicott's comment.
7 Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table. 8 It is sweet as early grass butter in April.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 97. The Lamp. 9 In the first place, the amount of butter, and Texel and Leyden cheese consumed, seems amazing.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter. 10 Peter, his companion, was a very different sort of fellow; short, bow-legged, and as fat as butter.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V 11 The milk was good for Pavel, who was often sick, and he could make butter by beating sour cream with a wooden spoon.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V 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.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII 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 CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 20 15 A long table, on which stood an urn, plates and cups, cakes and bread and butter, stretched across one end.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 7