1 The churn revolved as usual, but the butter would not come.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 2 He had received a letter, in which a customer had complained that the butter had a twang.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 3 The dairyman had not recognized the taste at that time, and thought the butter bewitched.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 4 Then all the old hands remembered that a certain dry mead, into which a few of the cows had been admitted of late, had, in years gone by, spoilt the butter in the same way.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 5 To cheer themselves as well as they could, they made an artificial morning with the lantern, some bread and butter, and their own conversation, the real morning being far from come.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 6 There was plenty of eggs, butter, bread, and so on in the larder, and Clare soon had breakfast laid, his experiences at the dairy having rendered him facile in domestic preparations.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI 7 There was no food on the premises, but there was water, and he took advantage of the fog to emerge from the mansion and fetch tea, bread, and butter from a shop in a little place two miles beyond, as also a small tin kettle and spirit-lamp, that they might get fire without smoke.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVIII