butterwoman's

To-day we analyse ruthlessly thy metre, proclaiming it the butterwoman's rank to market, and thy sentiment, which we dub pinchbeck, and we remember that the Union Jack is used only in the

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

And if it is "the right butterwoman's rate to market," or "the very false gallop of verses," it is at any rate good enough for a long-eared public or a postulant for the Laureateship.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 Various 1876

Dame Gossip, with her jigging to be at the butterwoman's trot, when she is not violently interrupting, would suffer just punishment were we to digress upon the morality of a young man's legal possession of enormous wealth as well.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

Dame Gossip, with her jigging to be at the butterwoman's trot, when she is not violently interrupting, would suffer just punishment were we to digress upon the morality of a young man's legal possession of enormous wealth as well.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Dame Gossip, with her jigging to be at the butterwoman's trot, when she is not violently interrupting, would suffer just punishment were we to digress upon the morality of a young man's legal possession of enormous wealth as well.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

At last, as an instance of prodigious compliance, she told him, that if he would accept such a dinner as a butterwoman's daughter could give him, he should be welcome.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757

-- "Why, to be teased by all my acquaintance for marrying a butterwoman's daughter.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757