Word: butter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...praise. Of some of the finest essays not a word. Were he disposed to be fair even, he could hardly fail to acknowledge the merits of "Quotation and Originality," of the "Progress of Culture." His complaint that he finds nothing practical in such a particularly unpractical, un-bread-and-butter subject as "Poetry and Imagination," and his surprise at hearing nothing new or startling on "Immortality," are fair specimens of his captious criticism...
...Whereas by Law 9th of Chap. 6 it is provided, that there shall always be Chocolate, Tea, Coffee, and Milk, for Breakfast, with Bread, or Biscuit, and Butter, and whereas the foreign Articles above mentioned are now not to be procured without great difficulty, and at a very exorbitant Price; therefore that the Charge of Commons may be kept as low as possible...
...Voted, That the Steward shall provide at the common Charge only Bread, or Biscuit, and Milk for Breakfast; and if any of the Scholars choose Tea, Coffee, or Chocolate for Breakfast, they shall procure those Articles for themselves, and whereas the Sugar and Butter to be used with them; and if any of the Scholars choose to have their Milk boiled, or thickened with Flour if it may be had, or with meal, the Steward, having seasonable notice, shall provide it accordingly. And farther, as Salt-Fish alone is, by the afores Law, appointed for the Dinner on Saturdays...
...gentleman, much less his delicacy of feeling. Wordsworth certainly was superior to bourgeois, but De Quincey might well be pardoned for denying the name of gentleman to a man who cut the leaves of a book, in the author's presence, with a table-knife covered with butter. This indeed is a trifle, and for the perfection of the English bourgeois-artiste character we must go to Dr. Johnson. There is a good deal, after all, to be said in excuse of the first gentleman of his time letting him wait in the anteroom among the lackeys; for except...
...increased, as the waiters and other employes will be engaged in clearing up till a very late hour. Nor is this all. Men will not be satisfied, after being without food for five hours, and running to and from recitations during this time, with nothing but bread and butter and a cup of tea at noon, but it will be necessary to place before them a large quantity of meat not required now at tea, because the interval between meals is so short. This will considerably increase the expenses, and for this increase there is no margin left...