butter beans
- plural of butter bean.
Example Sentences
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I dropped my butter-beans for a moment and assumed a listening attitude, and without any further solicitation, and in the natural course of events, the story began.
From Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Strong, Beulah
How many rows of string-beans do you want to start with, and how many butter-beans?
From Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Preston, Alice B.
Meanwhile her governess subsists on greens, Canned conger-eel or cod and butter-beans, And often in a black ungrateful mood Envies the dogs and cat their daintier food.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919 by Various
She had been somewhat disappointed at first when her butter-beans ran all to vines and did not bear at all.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
My tomatoes are now maturing—and my butter-beans are filling rapidly, and have already given us a dinner.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
