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For a little extra motivation, Schaffer has buttered up his offensive linemen in training camp.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017

A child, when it is ill, has buttered toast and a picture-book instead of bread-and-milk and lessons.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony

It is generally the Mother Country that has buttered the Colonies.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 by Various