Example Sentences

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Quite after the maddening fashion of men the Young Doctor did not answer—not until he had consumed, and appreciatively, the bit of roll that he had been buttering.

From The Island of Faith by Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth)

Rose-Marie laid down the bit of roll that she had been buttering and turned reproachful eyes upon the Young Doctor.

From The Island of Faith by Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth)

The little country practitioner who had been buttering them up for a quarter of a century found that he might as well put up his shutters.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir