| 单词 | butter |
| 例句 | It would not do, this evening, to smell of butter. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe my grandmother just moved the box so I wouldn’t get any peanut butter on it. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z She served mashed potatoes with butter in pools on the top, and green beans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I find Malia’s favorite peanut butter crackers in a kitchen cabinet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I fished Maria out of the mud and gave her a bottle of peanut butter to lick—the bottle was empty; it had been empty since a month ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, when she pressed it to the rope, it cut through like butter, and in a matter of seconds the rest of the rope fell away around Adiah’s body. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Finn saw cartons of Campbell’s soup and ramen noodles, and bundles of water bottles and peanut butter jars. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning she skimmed off the cream to make into butter later. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She snuggles me close, smelling like baby powder and cocoa butter. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z All those stories I’d heard about peanut butter allergies and how babies shouldn’t have it until they were older. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Then, one night while Mama was rubbing shea butter mixed with hot pepper into Papa’s swollen joints, I overheard a conversation between them, and understood. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The resistant sweetness that breaks open at last to deliver peanut butter—the oil and salt which complement the sweet pull of caramel. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got to the kitchen, Mom was smearing butter on toast. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Or I’d hold one under her chin: Do you like butter? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Sammy asked for strawberry ripple ice cream topped with peanut butter ice cream. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, some big domestic mammals served as sources of milk and of milk products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I got out of bed and dressed and dashed to the kitchen where Mom gave me half of her egg and butter sandwich. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z For all of that, the eggs were cold, but we ate them, along with the buttered toast and orange slices. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Mama, who once refused to receive him, now buttered him up whenever he was over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I ain’t hungry now, but sooner or later I will be, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich always hits the spot. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Three or four scrael would go through this town like ... like ...” “Like a hot knife through butter?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He ducked his head and set to work cutting six thick, even slices of bread while Vola slapped a chunk of butter into an iron skillet and snapped on a flame beneath it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z To someone who didn’t know any better, they would probably look like simple peanut butter jars. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I used the butter to make her happy, but I really didn’t care about anyone wanting me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He stabbed his black blade into the floor, and it cleaved through the stone like butter. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “No butter until your blood pressure goes down. Doctor’s orders,” the butler said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma’s “children” sounded like a “churn” making butter, and depending upon how he heard her, her “horses” watered lawns or housed people. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z "Now he's trying to butter us up, I think." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She let her mother relax her hair and oil up her skin with cocoa butter. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I opened my purse, meek, and Mrs. Diamant stared down at the squashed butter and the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The boys had left a slimy mess of peanut butter, Doritos, and—yes—sticky puddles of lemonade mix. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z For breakfast they brought you these peanut butter sandwiches on thick slices of bread. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The family would no longer have fresh, rich milk to churn for butter to make into ghee. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Even the boxes of Ivory Snow and Corn Flakes, jars of peanut butter and mustard, hopped. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Eat your porridge, please, or you will have no buttered toast.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z And I think Helena might have eaten the butter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Just the juice and buttered roll, but with extra butter.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I’d have to wrap him up in a gunny sack or an old coat and pry his claws loose from the butter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Close up on the stalls he sees that the shapes are tubs, sacks, lumber, wheels, a broken plow, a butter press and a metal trunk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know why my mom insists on leaving peanut butter in there. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Atik dressed, went out to his sled, and brought back bacon, bread, beans, and butter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She patted my cheek affectionately, giving me peanut butter racing stripes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Banana peanut butter smoothie. I was up late working on that essay for social studies, and I didn’t have time for breakfast.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z One of his front teeth, I noticed, was edged all the way round with gold, and his hair was slicked down with so much hair-cream that it glistened like butter. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t your mom make those peanut butter cookies that you used to always bring in for class parties?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “These are peanut butter dog treats,” Hyacinth said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The only thing that my father and his brother had in common was the land that fed us, sheltered us, and provided the rice, palm wine, and shea butter that we sold at the market. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I leave a note, I make a sandwich: peanut butter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Down among the partitions of the maze, with so many lunch-smelling rooters breathing on him, Ralph had no idea of the direction of the peanut butter. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, while you were waiting for the pan to heat up, you spread butter on the outside sides of the sourdough bread. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to a long skinny black suitcase that had a leather handle on top of it and said, “And be careful, that’s my bread and butter in there.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “He from down South. They named him that because when he was a baby, he used to eat sticks’a butter rolled in sugar,” Freddy said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z There was still a big blob of peanut butter stuck to the roof of my mouth. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Investment research has had to have huge amounts of cost ripped out of it, so a lot of firms are using shift work in Bangalore to do bread-and- butter company analysis.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The eight soon-to-be brothers feasted on rack of lamb baked in a crust of garlic and herbs, gar-nished with sprigs of mint, and surrounded by mashed yellow turnips swimming in butter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The one by the window is a pale butter yellow. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s elbows with extra butter and extra salt, and it is right in front of Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A porter trotted at their heels, pushing a wheelbarrow heaped high with provisions: salt and flour, fresh-churned butter, slabs of bacon wrapped in linen, sacks of oranges, apples, and pears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ramen noodles, beef jerky, dried shrimp, butter biscuits, tamarind pods, canned fish, and drums and drums of real water. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Dicey got a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of butter almond. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Turns out that when you fry a piece of bologna in butter, it goes from a flat piece to a bowl shape. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I knew and they knew he was saying we got to remember which side our bread is buttered on down at the store, and who is buttering it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Jack would ladle it over your buttered linguine, your rounds of fresh bread. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We also control the number of butter pats our customers get and the amount of sour cream on their baked potatoes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She brought a tray of coffee and Dutch butter biscuits. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I cooked them as Angelo had recommended, first in a dry frying pan to sweat out their water, and then with butter and shallots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For Fadi it was his usual, a sliced Twinkie spread with peanut butter and layered with a sliced banana. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z For dessert we had a peanut butter and jam sandwich or vanilla ice cream. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Instead, there was a giant urn in the middle of the table and a five-pound tin of peanut butter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Then, without saying a word, she placed a stick of butter, the wrapper half-open, on the counter in front of me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then when it became apparent Ob and I were probably going to rely on peanut butter to pull us through, he finally got the notion to go on home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z I met her there once and discovered that KittyBix and peanut butter is a good breakfast. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Kali and Janaki between them had to show me how to milk the goat, how to plant seed, how to chum butter from milk, and how to mull rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I can get most of the butter off the shoe lining, with a washcloth or some toilet paper from the bathroom, tomorrow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the straps of those shields Were men of soft sweet smooth cheese, Men who knew not to wound a Gad, Spears of old butter had each of them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, rather, it was bread toasted and buttered. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z And then hers would grumble, Yeah, or maybe a Ritz cracker with peanut butter. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Biscuits warm and buttered stop halfway to our mouths. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z There were plates of roast beef, baked potatoes, buttered carrots, fresh bread, and a whole bunch of other foods I hadn’t had in a long time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I still had half my peanut butter cookie in my hand, but I dropped it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Oliver came out of the kitchen with a thick peanut butter and jelly sandwich in his hand. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She slathered them in peanut butter and drizzled dark Karo syrup on top. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Only so much could be done about her hair without shea butter and a good comb, but she at least tried to redo some of the unravelling twists. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Yep,” he says, going to the table to scoop some peanut butter from my bowl. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z ‘Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I grabbed it, slammed it onto a plate, and started smearing butter on it so hard that I ripped the bread. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The smell of butter and cocoa made her cry. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Inside, there are two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches packed tight in plastic wrap, an apple, slices of cheese, a few cookies, and a mostly full bottle of Gatorade. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was a perfectly respectable appliance for, say, buttering pancakes, but patently inadequate for defending oneself against 400 pounds of ravenous fur. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Will packs a lunch of his favorite peanut butter and honey sandwiches and chips and Gatorade. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “My mother sent me over to ask Mrs. Malloy if she has any butter.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On the way home from the ice cream place, Jamie, with his chocolate-peanut butter twist, and Bridge, with her banana caramel, walked a few steps behind their parents. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She slipped a freshly made ball of butter into a stone crock. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came quails in honey, a saddle of lamb, goose livers drowned in wine, buttered parsnips, and suckling pig. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I told him about the butter fiasco and asked him when he’d planned on giving me the necklace. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Rice. With Log Cabin Syrup and melted butter.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is a list of foods we discovered in America: Peanut butter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Kathleen O’Connell at the shop knows Dad is off to England and money will be flowing back so she’s happy to let Mam have credit for tea, milk, sugar, bread, butter and an egg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It is butter and creamy tea, as warm as Papa's arms, freckled like Papa's arms, strong and foundational like Papa's arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The fridge was pretty barren, so I settled for peanut butter and jelly. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Kissed with -garlic and bathed in butter. I am told the taste is exquisite. Have one, my friend. Have two.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I slice the rest of the bread with a scraping of butter for the children and call the women to the kitchen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He ordered two stacks of hotcakes, slathered them with butter, drowned them with syrup, and was just about to dig in when Al Ulbrickson entered the room. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The DDT will turn up in the milk in the amount of about 3 parts per million, but in butter made from this milk the concentration may run to 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mom takes butter out of the fridge, gets a knife and plate, and waits for her toast. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Elbows with butter and salt, meatballs, and red sauce. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What she gave me was a sandwich cookie with peanut butter cream in the middle. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I preferred the chores that took me out of the kitchen, for it was there the bees tricked me into seeing Ruth’s ghost playing on the floor, churning butter, or counting out kernels of com. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people thought you melted the butter in the pan first to make grilled cheese, then put the sandwich down, but that was wrong because then the butter wouldn’t spread even on the bread. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z It was thick with leeks, carrots, barley, and turnips white and yellow, along with clams and chunks of cod and crabmeat, swimming in a stock of heavy cream and butter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t of been much trouble for Mama; all Grandpa ever wanted in the morning was four cups of coffee and some yeast bread, toasted hard and dipped in boiling water and then buttered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “We will trade butter and sugar on black market for rice!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z That was after they had hauled away the plow, the scythe, the mule, the sow, the chum and the butter press. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were mysterious and kind and her skin dark brown with a glow, darker than toast and looking a little like it had been buttered. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He forgot the butter in bed, got up from the bedside, and wiped his fingers on the tablecloth, exclaiming, “Lord bless my soul!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “The Ghost picked up some black bread and butter. We ate the sausages, and the wine’s gone, but there might still be some cheese.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She tore off a chunk of bread from a long loaf on top of the refrigerator, spread it thick with butter, and put the bread on a napkin in front of me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They were laying off sugar or carbs or caffeine or meat or dairy, but maybe a little butter was fine now and then. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They are as sweet and plain as butter- cake. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There had never been anything like a jar of Darlington peanut butter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She had cheese slices and peanut butter crackers in her purse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Here’s the cook lying insensibly drunk on the kitchen floor, with a large bundle of fresh butter made up in the cupboard ready to sell for grease!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z A Nick Eisner is a cookie with a random glop of peanut butter on top, because when we were five, Nick thought that’s what people meant by peanut butter cookies. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “I think,” begins Mama, spreading butter on slices of bread, “I think I’m ready to go back to work.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Every house-lantern has been lit—morning, dusk, and night ones—every chaise and chair fluffed, every door opened to expose the currant red and fuchsia and rich butter yellow of the rooms beyond. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Like peanut butter and pickles, they didn’t mix. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z As the guard turned to point to the outside pump, Jack slipped a pound of wrapped butter into his bucket. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Before leaving the house, he had gone down into the kitchen, and cut one thick slice of bread and butter, and he ate that, now, with one of the cheese triangles. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She laughed disagreeably, squashing her cigarette in the butter, and went to the telephone to ring up all her friends. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Nathan sat at the kitchen table with a peanut butter jam sandwich and two bottles of water before him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I swim in the lake provided, and eat raisins and crackers spread thickly with peanut butter and honey while reading detective stories, and sulk because there’s no one my age around. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But I just stare at my chocolate peanut butter pie with the two missing bites and wonder how it all came to this. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She watched Lane butter a piece of bread. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Sweet potato cheesecake and peanut butter brownies and white chocolate cookies and, of course, the delicious yellow cupcake with strawberry icing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Of course, the B was actually butter and the T was probably tuna—I really needed to stop letting Nana pack my lunches. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Those hogs are our bread and butter,” she said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z So now Molly does—she swallowed her pride, asked Ralph for money, and bought almond butter, organic honey, and nutty bread in the health food store in Bar Harbor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Jones appears in their thicket, his pockets overflowing with ham, butter, bread, and a flask of coffee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a lot of food that came in boxes and jars, but she found some good dark bread and some butter and jam. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Are you serious? Yes. Go get the peanut butter,” says Alice in her bossy voice. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z A box of raisins, a sleeve of crackers, and a half-empty jar of peanut butter—Pax would come out of any hiding spot for peanut butter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I pretend to nibble on my cookie for as long as possible, but the peanut butter tastes like dirt. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I say, “Oh yeah. Sold plenty there. Pies and apple butter too. And we had PYO. Pick Your Own. And there was the company that came for the cider apples. The Mclntoshes and Empires mostly.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I wanted to march up there and tell Ruth to come back and finish the butter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She held in one hand a slice of freshly baked white bread spread with butter and in the other a stone jug filled with cold milk. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Flour, sugar, salt, eggs, milk, butter, baking powder, cinnamon. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I walk over to find the green Jell-O powder and there’s sweet Louvenia in her white uniform looking at peanut butter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z French jams, English marmalades, an unclean butter dish, bottles of ketchup and Lea & Perrins circled past, before what the Object wanted: an economy-size jar of Rolaids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Pheasant with a selection of jewel-colored jellies, and tiny versions of real vegetables swimming in butter, and potatoes mashed with parsley. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Lord Bertulf just sat in his chair behind the table, like a stick of butter slowly melting. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “This dog sure likes peanut butter,” she said. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The smell of garlic and butter had his mouth watering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They look at her hands and know what she will do with biscuit dough; they smell the coffee and the fried ham; see the white, smoky grits with a dollop of butter on top. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The trick to eating catheads was to get the butter on them before they got cold—then they were delicious. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The cook had prepared enough to feed a battalion: pheasant stuffed with figs, stewed oysters, potted larks, greens cooked with bacon, pickled watermelon rind, and buttered parsnips. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He had egg on his trousers, butter on his cap, gravy on his shirt, orange pulp in his ear, and banana peel wrapped around his waist. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z In each house where she stopped, she was. given a cup of hot tea with butter in it, which was the way she liked it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All he had to do was open it, drop the butter, and he would be free, but do you think he would? Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He listened, nodded, asked no questions and made himself another peanut butter sandwich. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I bake fresh bread and spread it with butter, and Shad and them that is laying near him clap there hands when they see me begin to hand it out. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Dolores tried to make her words soft like butter, so they might actually melt in. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It doesn’t even have to be an important or hard word, like amnesty or communism, but something easy, like salt or butter or sky or star. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Feet and butter...and, and grass,” Jeanne said, chewing, chewing, chewing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z If one of her chickens got the snuffles one day, rubbing asafetida in butter on their nostrils would set them straight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He knew that if he reached out and touched her face, it would feel like butter, the kind Master unwrapped from a paper packet and spread on his bread. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No more freeze tag hide the belt hot peas and butter. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I could hear the Odoms inside eating supper, everybody laughing and saying “Pass the butter” and stuff. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Why in the world would she eat butter?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Once, he took a bunch of squares of butter, lifted his shirt, and rubbed the butter all over his belly. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Tom had the wheels off the buckboard and was buttering the axles with yellow axle grease. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We ate the bread and butter separately, ate the dry lettuce leaves, and drank the little container of salad dressing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One wore a suit with pants that looked like fresh butter, the coat like canary feathers, and a tightly knotted neckerchief the color of lemon peels. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Just a card table, a mattress, and a single armchair in front of the television where he now sits, a tin of butter cookies in his lap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Tyson was inhaling one peanut butter sandwich after another, and Grover was loving the lemonade, crunching the Styrofoam cup like an ice-cream cone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I spread a napkin out in front of me, then lifted out my Cheetos, apple slices, granola bar, and peanut butter and jelly sandwich and arranged them on the napkin. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As I patted, her eyes grew wide at the sight of a thick slice of buttered bread perched near the edge of a table. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was going to be ham and eggs that evening, with fried potatoes if you were early and bread and butter if you weren’t. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was all plastic too—the table linen, the butter dish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord,” said Gloria Dump, “I don’t know if the whole world likes peanut butter as much as you and me and this dog.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z There was also sliced avocado drizzled with lime juice and three triangles of toast, already buttered. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She brought her own bowl to the table, too, and then a loaf of bread on a cutting board and a dish of creamery butter and spoons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her grits tasted like sand and butter, with big lumps inside that caught in your teeth and stuck in your gums. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What if my breath smelled like butter and salt? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “We make butter and cheese. Bread and biscuits, jams and jellies. But we are especially famous for our molasses shoofly pie.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “He tried to kill me. And someone else—he stabbed someone else in the eye... with a butter knife. He is evil. I had every right to—” I feel a sharp pain in my neck. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She watched him butter another piece of bread. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “That’s what I want to do. Sell butter and cheese and feed the milk to pigs.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The dining-room table was set for five; there were eggs, bacon, toast, jam, butter, milk, apples . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We spoon out the honey for the corn bread, unwrap the butter. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Some rode in carts piled high with produce: cabbages and bags of grain, cheese, butter and bacon, chickens and ducks. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The lords and knights had milk and honey and even a bit of butter to sweeten their portions, he saw, but none of that would be offered him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At one shop pilaus were being sold, mounds of saffron rice on buttered plantain leaves, glistening with ghee and garnished with red chillies and curling strips of fried onion. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z All the time I was grooming her, she tried to lick the butter from my hands. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I rub the butter over my face, work it into the skin of my hands. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I did. Is there something wrong with butter?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I remember when you were a baby, you grabbed a spoon full of peanut butter out of my hand and shoved it into your mouth. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Pamela had peanut butter legs all right,” Art said, his head under the shower, “smooth and easily spread.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the servers scooped a dollop of peanut butter into the bottom-heavy glasses, and another filled them with warm milk from the urn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Our inventory was down to a bag of Cheetos, peanut butter crackers, some Twizzlers, and a snack pack of Oreos, plus the candy I had managed to stuff into my backpack. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In winter the cream was not yellow as it was in summer, and butter churned from it was white and not so pretty. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The beechnuts are abundant this year, and so are the hickory and butter nuts, but the acorn crop is poor. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They got there bread, and butter, and cheese and apples: the last of the winter store, wrinkled but sound and sweet; and a leather flagon of new-drawn ale, and wooden platters and cups. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His voice was rich and creamy, like smooth peanut butter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She bites into the sunflower seed butter sandwich her mom packs every Friday—on sprouted whole grain with the crusts cut off. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Toes tapping anxiously two inches above the floor, the Owner brought the peanut butter to meet his tongue. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Once the bread pops from the toaster, she slathers it with butter and eats, standing. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “That old woman eat two butter beans and say she full. I couldn’t get her to eat nothing.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She takes a small bite of her peanut butter banana. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He grabbed some bread, butter, and ham, filled a flask with coffee, and stuffed everything into his pockets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She filled six baskets with crocks of butter and big wedges of stinky cheese wrapped in cloth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I ironed her dresses and packed her school lunch in a paper bag. She loved peanut butter. That’s all she wanted. Peanut butter Monday through Friday.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The former was quite good, bacon and potato soup with fresh bread and butter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He put an iron pan on the stove, added butter and spring onions, and, after a bit, tossed in the bass cheeks. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Like, maybe a chocolate peanut butter cupcake with Cocoa Pebbles in the batter, so when you bit into the finished cupcake, you’d get crunchy bits. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z My fingers were messy with the butter from the crumpet, and I felt in my pocket for a handkerchief. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Those marketwomen who had counted their pats of butter after he brushed past their stands, Mrs. Lapham with her prophecies that he would end on the gallows, had not been so far wrong. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter. Fresh bread, if you please, not fried. You may find the wildling as well. Tell him that I must speak with him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate lettuce leaves with Thousand Island dressing, and caramel apples, and popcorn with butter. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “Some folks are natural bom kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Berries from the garden and homemade raspberry preserves,” Lena said, placing a platter on the table containing toast, butter, a pitcher of milk, a bowl of sugar, and a bowl of jam. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He liked best little green soft butter beans and he stacked them in a neat pile on the prongs of his fork. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She tolerated them fair enough, except for the muddy boots on the furniture and when they spread butter on their bread with their thumbs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no mention of two suspicious peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the premises, or a flashlight, or a silver cross on a chain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom gets a little bent out of shape about the patriarchy. But I promise they’re fun. And my dad makes the best peanut butter chocolate chip pancakes. Hands down.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The carriages rolled past Sitting Bull’s Cabin, the Lapland Village, the compound of the allegedly cannibalistic Dahomans, and, directly opposite, the California Ostrich Farm, redolent of simmering butter and eggs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He ducked inside a stationer’s shop briefly and came out carrying a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and two fresh rolls, steaming hot, with butter oozing from their middles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “And then I bought some butter, and you made me drop it.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Safer says he trusts me to keep an eye on it while he gets us some peanut butter crackers. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Dr. Mansfield buttered his roll and took a bite out of it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “When the immigrants came to America through Ellis Island, they would sometimes get ice cream for a treat. But they didn’t recognize ice cream. They thought it was butter, so they spread it on toast.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I put too much peanut butter in, and my teeth find it difficult to wade through and locate the banana chunks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Someone’s always cooking something, and the lobby smells delicious: butter and onion and curry and other spices. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I walked outside and melted into the city, like butter in the stew. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I thought maybe I’d been giving her too many peanut butter sandwiches. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I put eight pounds in the post office for my fare to America and that night we have a big supper of ham, tomatoes, bread, butter, jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And then Mrs. Park says something about how he should feed me butter instead to fatten me up. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I look for the pat of butter, in the toe of my right shoe, where I hid it after dinner. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could make peanut butter sandwiches and cut them up in triangles to make them look fancy.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z There were cold omelettes with chopped ham in them, and cold chicken and hot coffee for the grown-ups, and hot crisp rolls baked in the hotel kitchen, which we ate with butter and cranberry jam. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyson had hay in his hair and peanut butter in his teeth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I nodded before digging into my bowl of buttered grits. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It had to be the thrashing of kitchen hands for the crime of churning butter at a leisurely clip. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Me and Peewee got on the trucks between boxes of peanut butter, and started to the airport and to wherever the hell Chu Lai was. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was yakking a mile a minute, saying stuff like “Your momma sure can make a good peanut butter sandwich” and “How come these kids is so darn mean?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The cupboard was too warm, the butter is semiliquid. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She toyed with her knife making circular depressions in a pat of butter and the movement hypnotized me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Delicious. Blue lobster and melted yellow butter. Mmmmm,” I say to tease him, but crack up over his expression. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The cabbage is soft and hot and there are plenty of potatoes with butter and salt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z All I see is Caleb and Susan on the ground in the corner, passing a jar of peanut butter back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z One summer the family lived on an Indian reservation in a teepee, subsisting on government-surplus peanut butter and cornmeal. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I feed Baby Girl a peanut butter sandwich and the phone ring. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She went inside to buy peanut butter, bread and milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “When they wake up, I’m going to set them to work churning butter again. That kept you and Polly out of trouble when you were small.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We won’t then, either. Is the butter melted in the pan?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “We’re back to four twenty-five. They don’t charge for extra butter.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Aphrodite spread butter on a muffin as if she had all the time in the world. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was yellow, the color of butter and sunshine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He just slapped butter on a plate any old way and didn’t even try to make our company meals special. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember lying in a soft bed, being spoon-fed something that tasted like buttered popcorn, only it was pudding. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They ate lunch sitting on a bench at a bus stop on Route 1, finishing the bread and peanut butter, scooping it out with their fingers and licking it off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They are heaviest in butter and other manufactured dairy products. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Well enough, in fact, so that we could tap out messages to each other by bouncing the tip of a fork on a butter plate. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Barbara,” said she, “can you not bring a little more bread and butter? There is not enough for three.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z My leg had swelled up till it was about the size of a butter churn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I pick up the spoon with dried peanut butter, hold it out to Garrett, and he gives me a look of profound disgust. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z AT home that night, I get the butter beans simmering, the ham in the skillet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I heard laughter, the slosh of wine being poured from a bottle, the tinkle of butter knives tapping porcelain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I watch as I feel my hands throw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich together, and I think how I'd give anything for a double cheeseburger right now. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing,” he said, looking at all of us as we crowded between the butter beans and the okra. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich wedged in his left hand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z This certainly wasn’t a peanut butter factory anymore. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I had no idea if this was proper, but after months of wholesome, dull asylum diet, I was greedy for butter. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Dinner plates, dessert dishes, creamers, skewers, candlesticks, butter dishes, forks, spoons, teapots, trays, platters, ladles, tureens—the long table was covered end-to-end with treasure. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z We had roast venison and fried catfish and stewed squirrel and blackeyed peas and cornbread and flour gravy and butter and wild honey and hog-plum jelly and fresh buttermilk. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve landed with your bum in butter, and no mistake,” said the Afrikaner, wiping his vast chops with a napkin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I took out another butter and jam sandwich, broke it into four unequal pieces. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her last June how I liked my coffee black and toast barely buttered and she never had to ask again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She went back to a gas station and bought crackers with peanut butter from a machine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can have the rest of the graham crackers and peanut butter.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She took the butter knife from me and rushed off to show the cook. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As long as we do this, butter our skin to keep it soft, we can believe that we will some day get out, that we will be touched again, in love or desire. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I give him a slice of bread, the rest of the butter, and a cup of water. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And we ate lots of yellow cake and buttered popcorn. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Boys are always hungry,” she mutters before taking a jar of peanut butter off the shelf. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z A half-sized cow carved out of butter reclined on a block of melting ice. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “You will never own anything; you will always worry for food. I like very much you own something. Eat, ah, peanut butter.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I close my eyes real tight-like and picture the spread her mom’s made: chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, and buttered corn, all with a side of love. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Nora lets us inside, and I’m hit with the scent of buttered popcorn. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She told Stella to heat the butter, toss a half cup of the popping corn in, cover it, and wait for the pop. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Apparently there is no peanut butter and jelly in the jungle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was pretty chocolaty, but I could imagine pairing it with peanut butter. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it’s the peanut butter or the strangeness of that word that almost makes me choke. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z And whilst I’m mighty fond of butter, it ain’t nowhere near as good tasting if the way it gets into your belly is as milk. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Inspection complete,” he said, wiping a smear of butter off the side of his face. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I pick my new favorite flavor, peanut butter and chocolate. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z We christened them with prayers and invited all our little boy and girl friends for colas and cassavas and—when we could get them—some nice butter cookies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I had a bowl of butter all to myself, and my very own pitcher of cold apple cider. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He offered a bite of bread and butter to each of the children. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It was soft and warm and the butter was sweet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Breakfast, which usually consisted of porridge, cocoa or tea, bread, butter, and jam, was served at nine in the morning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She pointed her butter knife toward the island across the harbor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then I put a chunk of butter in there. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The main course plates had long been cleared away and Betty had returned with the bread and butter pudding. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was much more than she'd asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft- boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My heart thumping in my ears, I recognize it as a butter knife from the dining hall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Oh no, she says pointing the butter knife at me as if I’m starting trouble, no sir. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Americans have so much butter and sugar they can give away! Ah! It is hard to imagine.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The only other bear that they had encountered was sleek and fat as butter, complacent and sleepy, his thoughts obviously already running on hibernation, and quite uninterested in strange animals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Master lit the spirit lamp under the little silver chafing dish and heated some butter before cutting half a dozen poppy heads open and tossing them in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then I took an old butter knife and my cane and hobbled down all three flights of stairs. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother even made toast and cut the pieces into little triangles and put on lots of butter. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He set out a bowl of biscuits covered with a handtowel and a plate of butter and a can of condensed milk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Annex was delighted to hear that we’ll all be receiving an extra quarter pound of butter for Christmas. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Fiona gnawed through it, which was disgusting since this string had actually passed through the cracks between my teeth on several occasions and, more recently, had floated in a pan of butter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “It would have gone slick as butter. There was only one thing wrong. We wasted our time and risked our necks for nothing!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Was he supposed to chum butter and sew doublets like a girl for the rest of his days? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nathan got up from the table to look for the ingredients for a peanut butter jam sandwich. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Could a person survive on just butter and sugar? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z By the mid-twentieth century, however, the tables had been turned: old favourites became the bread and butter of live concerts, with new works squeezed in between them apologetically. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We ate around the flames of our bonfire, dripping butter onto the sand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But if you want cream or butter you go to the store or to McDaniels’.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z We eat without complaining or whining or asking our mother when there will be syrup, butter, milk . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z And in retaliation, she eats all the butter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I had already eaten, but I sat down with them and had some blackberry jam and buttered biscuits while getting around to telling my idea. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “A lot you know. And while you’re up in the attic, look around for that old churn. It’s how we used to make butter. Bring it down.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Recall how she could draw the birds to her with butter and song. k_-/o we pursued our duties and pleasures while the end of May came. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ivy and her family ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out of brown paper bags. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It pierced the inside of my leg, an inch below my knee, sliding into the tissue like a knife into warm butter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Nathan carried the small picnic basket with bottles of punch and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that Lily had thrown together at the last minute. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “We like our milk and eggs and butter.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Mama points to the butter chicken in a gigantic pot on the stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I scoop some of the peanut butter out with my fingers and eat it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I spread a layer of butter on the piece of bread and handed it to her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Each of us is going to bake something with the butter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When Sula first visited the Wright house, Helene’s curdled scorn turned to butter. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z How am I going to master the science of plumbing products when I can barely summon the concentration required to assemble a breakfast of peanut butter and toast? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Laleh couldn’t reach the plates, but she got out clean butter knives for us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Nana packed me a ham sandwich on white bread, a bag of plain potato chips, a peanut butter granola bar, and a fruit punch juice box. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “But, Vic, you do know those potatoes are already buttered, right?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I sit by myself in the kitchen with my eyes glued to the box and my mouth glued shut by peanut butter. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Smoked ham, bacon, a bucket of salt mackerel, flour, cornmeal, grits, raw sweet potatoes, lard, coffee, a tin of butter, some store bread, and a can of beaten biscuits that Dunse’s mama made. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I'm about to toss out chunks of buttered bread when a voice catches me off guard. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She had never tasted peanut butter before coming here. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z One of Grandmother’s friends had given us a basket of apples, so there was apple strudel, apple pie, apple butter, baked apples, and apple jelly. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I slather two slices with butter and pop them in the toaster oven for three minutes. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Mami slips something inside my butt that feels like a stick of butter. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I finally filled the butter chum and set it on the back porch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Eduardo ordered eight links of sausage and buttered toast, spraying all of it with hot sauce. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For breakfast we had scrambled eggs or Cream of Wheat with globs of butter and sugar. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She gets the fire going, cuts the onion in half, drops it in the boiling milk with a little butter and sprinkles the milk with pepper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I just about spit out my peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I realized it was JT. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It tastes like chocolate chips and gooey oats mixed with peanut butter. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And in the pantry: peanut butter, jelly, cans of tuna, packages of Top Ramen. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Tyrion eased the mushroom back into the lake of butter from which it had emerged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even over the peanut butter, Pax recognized the scent: his boy’s father. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She used a flat rock and the force of her will to smash groundnuts into passable peanut butter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He would lecture me about his latest research into the boring life of some dead guy while I ate tiny forkfuls of mushroom omelette and nibbles of cinnamon bagel with butter. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He casually tore off a large chunk, spread a thick dab of butter onto it, and handed it back to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a Talent for churning happiness into her peanut butter that made his mother’s results so stupendous. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Rising triumphantly from the center of the table was a butter pagoda, unusually tall and splendid. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His darling “Lotje” has sent him eggs, butter, cookies, lemonade, bread, cognac, spice cake, flowers, oranges, chocolate, books and writing paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She got up to fix it and found that she had no butter, only oleomargarine. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Why you annoy with old woman? Hai, I remember butter now. I fry vegetable in butter for one week. That very good week. Not best week ever, but very good.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The shovel brought butter clams, sticks, and sea worms up with it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Emily pulls out a bag of her mother’s peanut butter cookies. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They had brought cattle and sheep, dairy butter and cheese, whatever had been their portion after giving what was due to the lord of the manor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z On the other, three sleek black shapes ran across a field as yellow as butter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She watched as I found the recipe and started pulling flour, sugar, and butter from the cabinet and fridge. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Tyson, you’re wasting away. Would you like another peanut butter sandwich?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “My mother ain’t one of the world’s great mysteries. She likes a good lot of butter and prefers sons to daughters.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “And you!” said Mrs. Weasley, but it was with a slightly softened expression that she started cutting Harry bread and buttering it for him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Dupre looked at me and kicked something—a pound of butter, sending it smearing across the hot street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care about songs or butter! Tell us straight out! Where is the cauldron?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z And there was a jar of peanut butter, too. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “The longer the war goes on,” Maddie said, carefully cutting her iced bun in half with a tin butter knife, “the older I’ll get.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z They take you to the office where the ladies give you three saltine cracker sandwiches with peanut butter in the middle. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We take plates to the den, and the three of us sit on the couch, slathering our pancakes in jelly and butter. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Scraps of ash floated through the air for weeks and found their way into everything, from the butter to the tea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched in astonishment as she liberally spread butter over the bread. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The sun is gentle and golden at this time of day, melting like butter behind the mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He exuded a strong smell of peanut butter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I wished I could go with them, but even more than curly fries and a look at the beauty queen carved life-sized in butter, I needed to work a few lawns today. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “That mirror is a lot brighter than a butter knife,” she said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She scraped off the butter, cut the bread into thinner slices, and then spread the butter on each smaller piece. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After a quick snack of crackers and peanut butter, Fadi grabbed his camera and left the apartment. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was a terrible thing to lose your milking cows because it meant no more milk or butter or cheese. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That night before lights-out, they sneaked back and retrieved the butter and jam. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z That order had apparently not yet been conveyed to the clinic’s kitchen, for the breakfast tray contained scrambled eggs, three rashers of bacon, and several pieces of buttered toast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s this perfect combination of butter, maple syrup, bacon, and maybe onions? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She was saving it, she said, to butter the bread. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! The little African can speak a little English, huh? Don’t let the massa know, gal. Play dumb as long as you can.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I pour the melted butter on the popcorn. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z There were peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chocolate snaps and punch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I sounded so smooth and calm, at least until I reached for my milk to wash down the peanut butter and knocked over the carton instead. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was empty, so he pulled a longish butt from the Planter’s peanut butter jar top that was Guitar’s ashtray for the day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you heard the one about the tinker, the Tehlin, the farmer’s daughter, and the butter churn yet?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The sun was melting butter over the Maricopas. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Remember? We buy butter from friend who have farm. But sugar I have no memory of. I may have tasted sugar, but I have no memory of.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I changed my clothes and made myself a peanut butter sandwich. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a new division of butter and margarine. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They ate mealie porridge, called sadza, with tomato, onion, and chili sauce; boiled pumpkin leaves; and okra with peanut butter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As Mom shoved the papers back into her bag, I opened the utensil drawer and pulled out a butter knife. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I butter the bread when the slices pop up. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I haven’t seen Myra since she left the Dauntless compound with Edward, right after his eye was claimed by a butter knife. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He reaches for a biscuit and some butter and licks his fingers. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “But honestly, I don’t see what your master’s bad mood has to do with the price of butter.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My favorite dishes are full of butter and cheese and sour cream. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I slather butter on a paratha and throw it into the microwave for thirty seconds. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z On the beach she dug butter clams with a pointed stick, raking an arc in front of her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We had rice most days for dinner, but I didn’t want it with peas or butter beans, or even collard greens. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There is corn glistening with butter, and salads made from iceberg lettuce and tomatoes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She shows or tells someone a word like butter or beach, and they are supposed to write or say all the words that come to mind when they see that word. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate peanut butter crackers, getting gunk all over their teeth while quizzing each other on the periodic table. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As I told you way back on another page, I was called “Fluff” because of my fondness for peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Not much food except peanut butter and mac and cheese and Cup O Noodles. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I guess so,” I said, looking down at my double serving of sweet potatoes with butter and cinnamon. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z They brought in great platters of fried cod, hash, potato balls, pumpkin mush with huge pitchers of cream, toast and butter, apple pie, and pitchers of coffee and milk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Egg salad sandwiches, a bag of potato chips, ham sandwiches, pieces of celery stuffed with peanut butter, a bag of cookies, paper plates, paper cups, paper napkins. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Evy brought along some sweet butter and a package of soda crackers and made tea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Next thing I know, I got a hanger from the closet in my left hand and a butter knife from the sink in my right. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z "But I wish there was butter on it." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z There were fresh peaches and plums and white bread with sweet cream butter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I stared at all of the flavors on the chalkboard menu, and decided on peanut butter cookies ’n’ cream in a waffle cone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He had a peanut butter cream cookie in his hand. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Oh, man—I just realized they deliberately buttered me up with buttered noodles. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I also asked him to make the pasta for the first course: morels sauteed in butter with thyme and, for color, the tiny fava beans, over fresh egg fettuccine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One Friday she finds herself alone in Dimitri’s apartment; he goes out as soon as she arrives, to buy a stick of butter for a white sauce he is making to pour over trout. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There were plates of scones, cookies, and muffins, fresh butter and jam—all of which, Annabeth figured, were incredibly fattening; unless, of course, you were the immortal goddess of love. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “It means unspoiled, without any butter or stuff added—” “I know what it means, Phoebe,” Mrs. Finney said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Grace paid, stepped aside, and waited for the lady behind the deli counter to slice, butter, and wrap her roll. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Food might be a tad skimpy in the portions, and I believe she had a prejudice against butter, she used so little of it in her cakes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d never loved the city, so almost every weekend she took the children back to Clover, where she worked the tobacco fields and spent hours churning butter on the steps of the home-house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The mountains of steaming basmati rice were capped with drizzles of saffron butter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She nods and begins slicing and buttering pieces of crusty French bread for me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Monday morning, she showed up carrying a box loaded to the top with two loaves of banana bread, two pies, peanut butter cookies, corn muffins, a dish of macaroni and cheese, and a lasagna. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Nimbly he leaped to the top of the partitions, caught a whiff of pure peanut butter, and took off across the top edges of the maze. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z I had to promise to buy Tyson an extra peanut butter sandwich at lunch to get him to stop sobbing. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet he firmly held the lamp as if it were as important as butter or sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I was supposed to bring in those peanut butter kiss things that are your favorite, but every time I told Mom about it, she kept changing the subject. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He stared straight at Garvey as he bit off a chunk of butter and swallowed it. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It’s full dark by the time I go back in the kitchen and make a stack of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and fill a jug of water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Supper began with beef-and-barley soup, followed by a brace of quail and a roast pike near three feet long, with turnips, mushrooms, and plenty of hot bread and butter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The oldest man in the room—he looks like he’s around seventy—says he married his first wife because her name tasted like peanut butter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Here’s fifty cents, Francie. Go out and get a quarter pound of sweet butter, a box of soda crackers and two navel oranges. Tell the man you want navel. Say they’re for a sick lady.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Peanut butter sandwiches—sometimes with, sometimes without jelly— were typical; cheese sandwiches were a treat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Or maybe they’d been scared away by the food—herring in rancid oil, stale black bread, and some kind of butter that looked distinctly mossy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In order to occupy Eliot she supplied him with the comics section of the newspaper, and crackers spread with peanut butter, and sometimes a Popsicle, or carrot sticks sculpted with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z No matter how many times my mother told him before a dinner party, “No butter pagoda,” it made no difference. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "Thank you is bare, put butter on my bread," my mother snapped. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He made a peanut butter sandwich to eat with his beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s chewing on oatmeal with peanut butter mixed into it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There are cadets who have skin like butter and irises like sapphires and ultra-fine networks of blue veins laced across the backs of their hands. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mostly peanut butter, but also clearly some corn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Well, let me see...will it be oozing chocolate lava cake at sixteen dollars or the caramelized runny butter tarts at fourteen dollars or the...,” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z By the time Sneaky wanders back in, I already have butter and syrup on the pancakes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I wish I could draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or a fist full of twenty dollar bills, and perform some magic trick and make it real. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The mess was still there—baby toys and clothes, towels, Layla’s lacrosse stuff, a bag of bread, and a jar of peanut butter on top of the minifridge—but her family was nowhere in sight. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I couldn’t wait to taste the sweet creaminess of butter pecan. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Mary said, “We can eat bread and butter.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene stabbed at the butter with the whisk. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z My body’s thinner than it’s ever been and my battle against hunger is so fierce that sometimes the animal part of me gives in to the temptation of buttered bread or roasted meat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z María called over the din of clanking pots and sizzling butter. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She said that if someone I had a crush on came in, I shouldn’t put butter in the bottom half of the tub. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z On it floated great chunks of golden grease, more delicious than the butter from the gussak store. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But the most amazing part of the whole operation—V remembered the stories distinctly—was that the factory’s owner, the maker of every jar of peanut butter the place produced, had been Fair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He passes me the jar of peanut butter. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Cole kicked at the butter, flour, sugar, and baking soda. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Determined to discourage uninvited rodents, Curly carefully baited the rattraps with peanut butter and placed them at strategic locations along the outside walls of the trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the commercial, the little girl took a bite of buttered bread and said, “Gee, Ma. This is the best butter I ever ate.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eleanor saw me put butter in everything I baked, so she must have thought it would be delicious on its own.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I love plucking them from the tawa, the cast-iron pan my mom reserves for this specialty, with a little pat of butter. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Pilate might bake hot bread and each one of them would eat it with butter whenever she felt like it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d be eating way too many of Mom’s famous peanut butter cookies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z When he anoints Dain’s other side, he paints it in thick swaths of pollen, yellow as butter. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She put the butter and eggs carefully in a hollow log and climbed a tree from which she could see the whole of the field. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that we were looking, we still didn’t see any cake, but the scent of it was on the air—brown sugar and warm butter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When I licked the butter off my fingers, he gave me his roll. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The wild- ling was within, seated at her board, spreading butter on a ragged chunk of warm brown bread with his dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We boil potatoes with their skins, so we won’t waste a thing, and eat them with butter and salt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They all sat on the warm sand near the wagon and ate bread and butter and cheese, hard-boiled eggs and cookies. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z After staring at moldy peanut butter sandwiches and burned cookies, I didn’t have much of an appetite, but the girl waved her hand and a picnic appeared at the edge of the fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z After class, Hassan found Colin eating a peanut butter and no jelly sandwich on the wide stone staircase at the school’s back entrance. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The answer is you’d milk it so hard it would turn into butter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Some nights I watched to make sure she buttered the popcorn all the way through. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z And the butter for the week and half the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “He also likes the popcorn salt and butter on your hand.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I nod, still working the peanut butter off the roof of my mouth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Axel takes all of his energy to focus on spreading soft butter on every square inch of white bread. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I know how to sort the lentils, grind the spices with his marble mortar and pestle, clarify the butter for ghee, and mix the dough for chapatis. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Helena hugs me and hugs me, and brings me some toast with butter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She listened attentively, reached out and took a triangle of buttered toast from my plate and ate it as she listened. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad helped with each of the steps—creaming the butter and sugar together, adding the flour and cereal milk and other ingredients. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “They’ll cut through your fingers with their beaks as if they were butter.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At the front was a sweating yellow mound that had been a cow carved out of butter before the sun got to it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There was no syrup or butter, but quart jars of strawberry jam were set out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a pat of butter on the side of the plate. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I made about five thousand peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z No matter how delicious it is, I’m tired of eating Pakistani food twice a day and have been craving a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch instead of heavy, spicy meals. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z We go to the kitchen and eat sliced apples and peanut butter for an afternoon snack. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The shark is gone,” I said, my lips slick with salty butter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I made two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches—one for me, and one for Trevor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I’m sitting in the living room eating a piece of Moms’s homemade bread with butter and sugar when Diego comes strutting through the front door. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z There would be stacks of petri dishes next to the cottage cheese and butter. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Pork chops smothered in gravy, green beans floating in butter, cornbread hot and fluffy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Ms. Castellan started humming as she got out peanut butter and jelly and started making a new sandwich. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In large bowl, whisk together butter, Elmer's Glue, paint thinner, and eggs. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I buy eggs, cheese, butter, and half a chicken. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In the Queens diner a bowl of soup with a buttered roll cost two dollars, all day. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But shortly after that they were transferred to Tule Lake, where there were turmoil and violence and arrests, and now they were here, traveling ten hours for butter and sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And then it came, so smoothly buttered, it almost slipped right by me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After that terrible peanut butter sandwich, I could actually use a breath mint. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Seth was using his butter knife to bounce sun rays. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He races around the couch and I dart in the kitchen, scoop the steak knife off the table he’s just used to butter his bread. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She showed me how to pump “butter” topping into the popcorn. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Returns with a dish full of jasmine rice with three chunks of butter melting into it. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Though “peanut butter” is a strange battle cry. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He makes a pot of coffee, toasts some bread to eat with butter and jam. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The butter is a trick I learned at the Rachel and Leah Center. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There will be tea, sugar, flour, milk, butter and a separate docket for a bag of coal from Sutton’s coal yard on the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z First he put butter and sugar into the large metal bowl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z My predecessor in this room, my friend with the freckles and the good laugh, must have done this too, this buttering. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood at the sink washing dishes as she spread peanut butter on saltine crackers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z How Madeleine liked to watch movies eating popcorn with cinnamon—but never butter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z First, I will tell you about the peanut butter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “If it last long, maybe next time we keep some butter and sugar.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She made herself some toast, with jam and peanut butter. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She turned to Big Ma and said, “Daughter, stir those grits up right. Extra hunk of butter—good butter from McDaniels’s farm,” she felt the need to add. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z We suffered together for two or three miserable, feverish, itchy days, while Mother applied cocoa butter and ice packs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came lamprey pie, honeyed ham, buttered carrots, white beans and bacon, and roast swan stuffed with mushrooms and oysters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They drink wine, eat cheese, cook with butter, and eat red meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Also like the Colts, the bread and butter of many Packingtown policemen was dependent on a good word from Frank Ragen or one of his cronies. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” she announced, buttering her own third slice of bread. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I open the door to the fridge: milk, butter, mayonnaise, bread, eggs, hot dogs. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Nhamo didn’t know what margarine was, but Grandmother told her it was even better than peanut butter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, I like it—raw or cooked with butter. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The cuts from scratching mosquito bites I got over the summer were now fading thanks to the cocoa butter Mama made me rub on my legs at night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I knew I should squeeze out a “hi” or maybe “hello,” or maybe even “hello, JT,” but of course he knew what his name was and my mouth was full of peanut butter. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pax hurried to where he’d buried the peanut butter jar and unearthed it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Guitar’s eyes rested on the last butter cookie in Milkman’s hand. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Stacked on the counter were hundreds—I mean hundreds—of Tupperware boxes with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches inside. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She explained—not too patiently—that a B & B letter is a bread and butter letter you write to people to thank them for having you as their houseguest. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I get some graham crackers and slather peanut butter on them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I like corn, but only if it’s alone, sprinkled with salt and doused in butter. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z On the stairs, someone was muttering, “If it’s not butter, it’s bacon.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Police provided each child with one peanut butter sandwich a day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I call Tats back while assembling my weekend breakfast: chopped bananas, peanut butter, yogurt, and granola. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z His mother was going on as she did every year about the incredible price of trees and butter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She splatters some butter on the white tablecloth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They ate suckling pig that night, and pigeon pie, and turnips soaking in butter, and afterward the cook had promised honeycombs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And a Greek girl named Anna would bring a plate of honey puffs or butter cookies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She sits at the table with a pot of tea, cups and saucers, plenty of bread, butter, cold meats of all kinds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Sounds interesting. You don’t want your butter, do you?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Once I receive the card, I try buttering him up a little to get my hands on all the books. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t say anything for a while, because she was melting a little butter in the microwave in a mug, adding saffron, and then pouring it over the steaming rice. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The house was stocked with food I had never seen before, like peanut butter. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Within a day, the British promised boiled peas and rice with butter twice a week for their American prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, it melts into my neck as soft as a pat of butter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And he took the knife from the rucksack and rested the edge against the front of the helmet, and sliced off a corner as if he were cutting butter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then she dropped a pat of butter into a frying pan, where it hissed and fizzled and spun as she sliced thin slices of cheese. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I told them they would get a wonderful treat just as soon as they turned that milk into butter. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Zafoona had surprised them by getting up early that morning and making them breakfast—Fadi’s favorite of a fried egg and peanut butter on toasted Afghan bread. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Pasta bowls, bread plates, glasses, two forks, two spoons, and a butter knife. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She served them biscuits and milk and then licked the last of the peanut butter from the knife before washing it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Not the first time, because whenever there is butter or even margarine, I save some in this way. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Eager for peanut butter, Scruffy leapt up, bit into the ribbon, and yanked it down hard. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z My dad, feeling sorry for me at the time, gives me the at-home nickname of “Skippy,” in honor of my peanut butter of choice. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Fern brought in the forks, spoons, and butter knife. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z On the shelves were one-pound blocks of butter tightly wrapped in protective paper, and rows of marmalade jars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I would write: “The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think she bought this one by mistake. It actually has the word ‘butter’ in it.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “I have their passport and come for two butter and sugar.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My bread and butter comes from this town, and Maycomb’s given me a good living. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After a while, Bertha came outside and brought us saltine crackers with peanut butter. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In very short time we have collected a dozen eggs and two pounds of fairly fresh butter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When I walked through the back door, the first thing I saw was Mother grasping a butter knife, which she was using to pry my father’s ears from his skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I take some peanut butter cups and stare off some more. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z His father finished the eggs and put them on some buttered toast he’d also made, setting down two plates, one for Conor, one for himself. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It had taken fifty-three years, but finally Mason Darlington Burgess, the good-for-nothing heir to the Darlington fortune, had discovered the secret ingredient to his own mother’s peanut butter recipe. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was because of my and Lori’s selfishness, she said, that if we had any bread, we’d have to eat it without butter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you give him something to take with him, Susan? Would you like to take some butter cookies with you, Mr. Macon?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The officers requested more coffee, lit their pipes, and unrolled their maps across the tablecloth, stained now with splashes of turtle soup, butter, wine, and candle wax. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a checkerboard of peanut butter wafers and slowly began to eat my breakfast as I searched through the newspaper. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This morning, I make an old standby—peanut butter cup. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Then pink tile and his hand on the lock and Just like you're making butter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t let her have a butter knife on her table, but they gave her access to this? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Oh, he’s a marvelous horseman, and brave, and doesn’t take any nonsense from anybody. He’ll lead us through the Lobsterbacks like a hot knife through butter.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was hot bread and fresh-churned butter, a thick beef soup, capon and carrots, and peaches in honey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I was bringing sandwiches made of apple butter on bread ends to school for lunch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Other than the occasional bite of butter, I don’t know what he means. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was locked, but Beckendorf pulled some chain cutters out of his bag and split the bolt like it was made of butter. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A pleasant young Negro woman took my order and fixed my breakfast: eggs, grits, bread and coffee—forty-nine cents—no butter and no napkin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Doña Andrea gave me a cup of milk with coffee and a chunk of bread with butter, and then I had to watch my sisters and brothers until Mami came home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Like peanut butter cookies that had been left out for too long. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The chalky peanut butter was the right amount of salty and crunchy. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He had eaten only half a box of old Red Hots that had lost their zing, and a pack of stale and crumbly peanut butter crackers nearly forgotten in his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Oatmeal, brown sugar and butter on top,” negative tone—positive nod. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Twinkle’s a bit of a peanut butter chocolate nut,” Sahil said. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The butter was bubbling slightly and golden brown. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Henry asks, examining a spoon with peanut butter caked on it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Why were some words peanut butter and jelly sounds, and others caviar? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z G’ma shouts, her pouf of white hair standing up all over her head like she stuck a butter knife in a toaster. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Then he walked into the farm kitchen, and kissed his mother on the cheek, and helped himself to a cottage loaf and a large pat of fresh-churned butter. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z We no longer had milk in the house, except for the youngest child; curds and butter were beyond our means except on rare occasions. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She laughed and spread peanut butter on half the apple. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z My unspoken plan is that, if I can butter him up enough, maybe he’ll change his mind and fly us out of here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We use only real butter,” she says in her accented English. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley took a piece of buttered toast from a stack on the kitchen table, put it into the fire tongs, and transferred it into Mr. Diggory’s mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Madge had a felon on her finger and wasn’t good for anything and Dorcas was complaining because there was no butter for breakfast. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As a chocolate fiend and our resident sweet tooth, Skid lived in a constant state of bewilderment that I was firmly committed to my Reese’s and/or other peanut butter and chocolate sweets. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He adds a chunk of butter so big, it almost melts away my appetite. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Last week, the sugar and butter had filled Miss Celia’s whole house with the smell of Christmas even though it was the crying shame of June. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She swiped her fingers over an unwrapped slab of butter and began greasing the loaf pans Malachite was going to bake in. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Slick as a snake in a barrel of butter,” said Wednesday. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I smothered them with butter and hand- mashed lemon and pan-cooked them in the fire pit behind the trailer where we bunked. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the pale one, its scales the color of butter cream, veined with whorls of gold and bronze, and Dany could feel the heat of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Canned peas, tomatoes, butter, condensed milk, powdered eggs, sugar, flour, vodka, whiskey. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z That’s why the consulate was giving butter and sugar to Americans. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Miss Honey carefully buttered a slice of brown bread and put a little strawberry jam on it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Claude is not so little anymore. Even I can see his family gets more than the others: more meat, more electricity, more butter. I know how such prizes are won.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Dad brings his garlic butter to the table. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I am. Two people with glorified butter knives ain't going to be able to take on that many shamblers, especially when a few of them look to be new turns.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Go ahead and eat the bread—but work, and maybe someday we’ll have butter to go with it.’ Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Five ingredients were selected for this special burning: milk, cheese, butter, honey, and sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Six monstrous huge aurochs had been roasting for hours, turning slowly on wooden spits while kitchen boys basted them with butter and herbs until the meat crackled and spit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When I was in third grade, I got the name Fluff because I ate peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches every day for lunch and also, I guess, because I started putting on weight. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Chubs’s fingers were quick and nimble as he opened the peanut butter crackers and started in on them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Mother is always cold and my parents’ house feels like I’m soaking in a vat of hot butter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Styx spoke over me, his voice as smooth as Mom’s butter sauce. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Olive ate even more: Gooseberry tarts and currant bread and cream trifle and plum pudding and chocolate bonbons and spice cake—all dribbled over with butter rum sauce and apricot sauce and peppermint sauce. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And never, though she dreamed and plotted as she scrubbed the iron kettles and churned the butter and bellowed up the fire, never a chance to take the calf money home. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z My sugar bread goes flying on the rug, butter side down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The egg and peanut butter in his stomach gurgled unpleasantly, making him queasy. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Plowing over the soft earth like a fly on summer butter and holding his head clear, he suddenly found himself face to face with Blackavar, who sank his front teeth into his throat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Deb licks peanut butter off her finger before answering. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z England was the first time I tasted peanut butter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She hoped Mama had fixed peanut butter today. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Hilly pour more cocoa butter on her plump, tan legs, rub it around. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “This is so much better than that thing drenched in butter that I could hardly finish at the restaurant. And you know we can’t get food poisoning because the frying kills the germs,” she added. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Desdemona went up and down the line, adding walnuts, butter, honey, spinach, cheese, adding more layers of dough, then more butter, before forging the assembled concoctions in the oven. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Francie took the plate holding two buttered crackers in to her mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She opens the refrigerator, and I know she’s put the peanut butter back in there. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “That, my boy, is the front-page article for tomorrow’s paper. Or at least it will be if I can butter up the head editor.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I lick my butter pecan scoops and say to Kay, “Remember when I asked you if you thought being adopted was a big deal?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were all different sorts—chocolate with chocolate frosting, chocolate with vanilla frosting, red velvet, Oreo flavor, peanut butter, sprinkles, caramel. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She was out before I’d even sucked all the leftover peanut butter out of my teeth. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to die alone, either,” he had said, buttering his toast. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were well provided with salt, Bowen Marsh had told him, but the last of the butter would be gone within a moon’s turn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I cut two slices of hard bread and spread some apple butter on top of them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Then Ma churned more slowly, and on the dash there began to appear tiny grains of yellow butter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can feel it in my bones and they never lie. Stop fretting and pass me the butter.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Holly was sitting across from us, talking away and eating pretzels with peanut butter. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And he showed me the peanut butter cookie. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They were best when eaten hot, dripping with honey and butter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Why it look like somebody tried to cut your hair with a butter knife? Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “How would your mother like it if you brought home a couple of the finest orange butter squash this side of the Eld?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, we slice peeled bananas the long way and smear peanut butter onto the flat sides like glue. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Extra butter for the youngsters, the problems facing today’s youth—you name it, and Mother defends the younger generation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When Pasta-palooza was just the five of them, and everyone knew the rules for playing trivia, and Axel got the first big spoonful of the elbows with butter, and Byrd called him her buttervore. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After the ham, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, biscuits, green beans swimming in butter, and sweet tea, Mama and Aunt Lena cleared the table and brought out the pies. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z I sat across the table from Deborah and Theresa and ate my atole and the hot tortilla with butter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But it did not taste anything like the Darlington peanut butter he had loved as a child. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The rising sun was buttering the clouds, the sea was royal blue, and dolphins darted in and out of the water, weaving between the rocks with absolute grace. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z A foot of steel looks as if it has been transformed into warm butter and gouged by the fingers of a child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Garvey ignored the question as he laid out salt, flour, eggs, baking soda, a bottle of water, sugar, butter, and molasses. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “If we're in Switzerland let’s have a big breakfast. They have wonderful rolls and butter and jam in Switzerland.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A plain old peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z We tear through as much of it as we can, James helping me with whatever math he remembers from eighth grade, tossing me peanut butter cups when I get a right answer. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Fd thought it was just because he always had peanut butter in his crooked teeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z What about all those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches you brung along? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They ate bread and butter to celebrate their engagement. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The Owner stuck a tentative finger into the food processor, where his first batch of his mothers peanut butter sat, waiting. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She’d seen them on the road at seven in the morning coming home with their strings of fish or with mushrooms, with fern tendrils, butter clams, sea-run trout if they got lucky. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She melted butter in a saute pan, then tossed in pieces of the gnarly meat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Yesterday she’d done apple butter, and that hadn’t been too bad. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Roza had just raided the fridge and pantry, setting out ingredients for another of her Polish dishes—flour, potatoes, onions, butter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z No one spoke, except to say “pass the salt” or “where’s the butter?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Gregor said, “I don’t really know. It’s two slices of bread with meat or cheese or peanut butter or something between them.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I worked over the bayonet a good long time until I had an edge on it that would slice through a man like a hot nail going through butter. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the old snapping kind, the kind Ma used back home to bait the mice with globs of peanut butter. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She brought a plate of butter cookies and pleaded with him to eat one. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The dry peanut butter had torn the flaky bread and the syrupy jam was spilling over. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Grammy. Who wants to be like peanut butter and jelly? That never ends well. For them, anyway.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “I’ll turn you into butter on a summer day. I’ll turn you into a poet with the soul of a priest. I’ll fill you with lemon custard and push you out a window.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Back in California, when Papa wanted something really fresh for the restaurant, he sometimes took them with him to a farm, where he bought butter, milk, or meat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I grab a piece of toast from the plate in the middle of the table and start to butter it with a little too much enthusiasm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Turtle began with the purple-waves story, went on to the whisperings, the bedded-down corpse, the dropped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and her mother's cross, and ended with the twenty-four dollars she had won. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Where we’d eat, when we’d eat, who got baloney sandwiches on Day One, who got tuna fish on Day Two, who got peanut butter and jelly on Day Three. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s good, but maybe it needs a little more butter.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My mind skips back over the last weeks, months, and years, trying to remember the last appearance of cream or butter in my life. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z And the girls were still checking the reflection of their feces in their cell phone screens, powdering their cheeks, and buttering their lips. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I won’t be long,” said Cha-Cha, slathering her voice with butter. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The turkey goes in at ten thirty—covered in butter and salt and pepper and celery and carrots and onions. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z That and Twinkies, peanut butter, lime Jell-O and Snickers bars. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I’d choose spending time with him over peanut butter chocolate ice cream. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Melted butter, a hint of cinnamon, and vanilla scenting the kitchen. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Martial law has been declared, and everyone is going to get one less butter coupon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Vonetta and Fern squealed as if the little colored girl in the commercial were standing in our room eating buttered bread. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She pauses, takes the popcorn out of the microwave, and puts a dish of butter in to melt it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z That was worse than peanut butter sandwiches for dinner and sharing a bed with her covers-stealing sister. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Number seven was he liked to eat peanut butter. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But naturally arising mutants—the bread and butter of fruit fly geneticists—were far too rare. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “It’s my father’s special recipe. It all depends on the quality of butter.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Tyson kept calling for peanut- butter sandwiches, eating them as fast as the nymphs could deliver. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There are no lobsters like these—simply boiled, with no fancy sauces, only melted butter and lemon, they have no equals anywhere. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Closing my eyes, I smell her red bush tea, the shea butter she rubs on her skin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Bread that was fresh and soft, plenty of honey and butter on the side, and a glass of milk not two days from the cow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The butter is greasy and it will go rancid and I will smell like an old cheese; but at least it’s organic, as they used to say. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait until you see him with buttered bread crumbs.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Your husband needs milk and vegetables and butter, not plain rice day after day.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Slightly browned and buttered, just how I like them. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’d like a buttered roll,” said the next person in line. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In Shalimar there was general merriment at his quick return, and Pilate blended into the population like a stick of butter in a churn. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We ate peaches in brandy and peanut butter and caviar sandwiches. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She dipped a pretzel in peanut butter and chomped it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Pierogi filled with potatoes, cheese, and onions, fried in butter. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It tore through my suit like a bullet through butter, and I felt the worst pain of my life as it ripped open my side. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't know what the yellow soft thing they smeared on the toast was, because in Calormen you nearly always get oil instead of butter. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But what with the juice running down my hand and me near about drunk on the butter smell, I am lost in a peach-peeling reverie. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He weighed hardly more than a large sack of potatoes or a full butter churn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We have eggs, buttered toast, and a glass of milk each for dinner; there’s a small sack of coal in the corner, and magazine cuttings pinned all over the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When the food processor hit the wall, the putrid batch of peanut butter splattered. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It can stand in for anything—a stuffed piranha, existentialism, the Monroe Doctrine, or buttered toast. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She was bustling between the pans and the fridge, bringing out eggs and cheeses, butter and a slab of sliced pink bacon. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Releasing a heavy sigh, I slathered butter all over a piece of warm corn bread. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We stood near the side table, which was loaded with mountains of food, from a whole roast hart with ivy threaded through its antlers to butter cookies as small and lacy as snowflakes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She gives Joy a whole muffin spread with butter. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “You have a point, Louis. But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her mouth watered over the butter that they would be getting soon but that she would not be allowed to eat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The buttered mushrooms glistened in the lamplight, dark and inviting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Reynie began to flip through his papers, some of which bore faint smears of peanut butter. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead of purple and white, this one was butter yellow with large butterflies on the cover. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I push on my banana slices again, too hard this time, and peanut butter squirts out. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z We eat fresh broad beans, venison with scattered pomegranate seeds, grilled brown trout with butter, a salad of bitter herbs, and, for after, raisin cakes smothered in apple syrup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. McCullough, she was sure, must have an array of bath products at her disposal: all those lotions and soaps and creams made just for babies, rich with shea butter and almond oil and lavender. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He slid the cheeks onto the plate and poured the butter and onions on top. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She stopped now and then, when she passed a town, to buy bread, peanut butter, apples, to refill the gallon jug in the passenger seat with water at a fountain. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead, I brought the butter to my nose, as if I were sniffing it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Elbow macaroni with heaps of butter and salt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The butter cross in the center square stood open to the four winds. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Bridge and Emily were in the living room with Em’s mom, eating peanut butter crackers and watching TV, when the doorbell rang. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “If he agreed with me, then it wouldn’t be in your greasy hands right now. You’re probably getting peanut butter all over it!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I did not finish my creamed corn, broccoli, Rice Krispies, or peanut butter sandwiches. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought peanut butter was an especially odd concept: You were supposed to cook with peanuts, not pound them into a cream to put in a jar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It stuck to people, animals, and inanimate objects like peanut butter. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, butter and honey were seldom seen in King's Landing of late, though Lord Gyles kept them well supplied in the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It’s terrible not ¡only for him, but for us as well, since he’s been supplying us with potatoes, butter and jam. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The restaurant had pounds and pounds of butter and sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then I’d shared my peanut butter sandwich with Wishbone, and that was it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Bowls of stewed butter beans with bits of crispy salt pork sprinkled on top were at each place on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Rumor had it that the peanut butter maker’s husband—a stodgy, surly type—shut down the factory after his wife’s death, purely out of spite. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Slowly Miyax brought the milk to her mouth, lapped, and found it as rich as butter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Travel south until your butter melts, then turn right. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Rabia loved eating chili cheese popcorn with extra butter while she worked. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Everywhere Cady looked there were bakers and their guests, dashing from here to there, clanging cake pans together and hollering about butter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I saw a well-appointed house Thatched with butter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After only eating old roti and dal and not much water, it was like eating a fruit custard made out of honey and butter. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Think you can get around some buttered toast?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The object was to reach the peanut butter as fast as possible. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z With that, which had taken all her courage, Beetle gathered up the butter and the eggs, only one of which had broken, and marched away. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “There should be. Or butter. Who wants to eat a dry bagel?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z For the next nine years, knowing that I’d earned it, I made myself a fat peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast each morning and consumed not a single egg. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The little boy, Jody, emerged from the house eating a thick piece of buttered bread. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The price of chicken wings, the company’s bread and butter, had risen. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The girl came in with the coffee and buttered toast. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I picked up a butter knife and held it out to her. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Trujillo had announced we were going to have a free country—just like the Yanquis he was trying to butter up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had baked a fresh batch of peanut butter dog biscuits that morning and was handing them out like Halloween candy. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z This evening they had supped on oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Then we could churn butter while we walk.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She would like some toast with butter right now, and maybe some chicken. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The good white bread of breakfast; the rolls dripping with yellow butter that I had slipped into my pocket so often to be munched later in my room with wild blackberry jam from home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I say, my mouth newly unstuck from peanut butter cement. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Little Brother’s eyes were as wide as peanut butter cups. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I held it, watching him pour a spoonful of melted butter over the yam and the butter seeping in. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They put on salt-rising bread and butter, bowls of stewed pumpkin, pumpkin pies and dried berry pies and cookies, cheese and honey and pitchers of milk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We got our breakfast: white bread and hot chocolate for me, brown bread with butter on it and coffee for Richard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We got white rice! First we got the butter and sugar, and then Jiichan sold it at the black market!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He tried smiling, but it was hard with his mouth all full of peanut butter. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Those who could afford butter on their bread bought it and stored it in the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was why the Elders and their families grew big and strong and rosy-cheeked on beef and butter and beer. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Last year when Ma’s appendix broke, when her sick leave was gone, we got bread, peanut butter, and applesauce. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z They had turkey with stuffing, and mashed potatoes swimming with dill and butter. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z And although they ate the same oats as all the other Cuttyhunk cows, hers gave the best milk on the island, so her butter was the best, too. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Or fixes me grits with butter and sugar. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He bought spare ribs, buttered corn, French fries, and a Pepsi-Cola. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just plain, no gravy or butter or nothing?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This time I had water, peanut butter sandwiches, a map, and insect repellent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As they approached, a man dressed much like the other one came out holding a piece of bread and butter in one hand, and without a word looked at their papers and nodded. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Have a long trip down,” she said, then leapt onto the banister, sliding from one flight to the next, slick as butter in a pan. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I hear my mom rummaging through the kitchen, saying something about peanut butter going bad. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I get half a muffin with a dab of butter so I don’t get too fat to fit in my cast. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z When we were up in the air, a young steward served us rye bread and salami and butter and cheese and white wine. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Butter beans “But I did butter beans last week.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z On the table there is a teapot, cups with saucers, a bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, butter, jam.There are two beds over by the window where there were none before. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mama stopped helping Merry’s plate with butter beans. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, there’s women,” she says, fiddling with a butter knife. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She hops from the counter to the table and grabs what’s left of my peanut butter sandwich. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The kitchen was closed, too, so I went to ask for some peanut butter and bread while Henry made himself a cup of tea. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “This table come with house when we rent. There are many table in America you can own. Many peanut butter. Akira will get sick of it, there is so much!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They used a homemade gadget for scraping corn off the cob and added globs of butter, cream, and salt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Not the hard kind, the soft squooshy kind, like peanut butter.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Still, we always used the butter, for if my mother sent it back to the kitchen, Yang Sze-Fu would lose face and quit. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Little kids on pastel bikes pedaled furiously, churning the heat to butter, gasping stories of wooden crates piled higher than skyscrapers, of crates broken into, pigeons flushed and killed, security guards posted. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the household went like clockwork and the shop had earned money for butter and butcher’s meat once or twice a week. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We place a big order at Murdick’s Fudge: chocolate, chocolate walnut, peanut butter, and penuche. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z His friends were quiet long enough for Coach Hedge to finish a peanut butter and banana sandwich, along with the ceramic plate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The guests would “oh” and “ah,” for it was a masterpiece: a pagoda molded out of butter, curved roofs rising tier upon tier, but my mother could only think how unsanitary it was. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s honest, real polite, and he likes crunchy peanut butter and apricot jelly—never grape—just like I do. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z How do you wipe peanut butter off your face?’” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Typically, it included fruit juice, hot cereal with milk and butter on it, a roll, cheese, and perhaps smoked fish, along with a boiled egg served in a little cup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He was so close I could smell the peanut butter on his breath. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He plucked a mushroom from the butter, and chewed it lustily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Axel crushes his buttered bread into a butter-bread-ball and eats it like an apple. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One of the few veggies I would eat was cauliflower, and Gay smiled whenever I gobbled it down with either buttered bread crumbs or a cheddar cheese sauce. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But I let him go on talking in his little riddles if that was what buttered his toast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All the kids in their group clasped their hands together, moving their arms in a circle like they were churning butter. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We sat down on the rocks in the shade along the dry creek and ate a lunch she’d prepared for us: peanut butter sandwiches and sliced apples. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They had lemonade, peanut butter sandwiches, and a kind of pound cake with red jam. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where did you get the peanut butter to make this cake?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z We sang nonsense songs together when we churned butter. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They plodded over the filthy drawbridge—a butter one, with cow hairs still in it—sinking to their ankles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We had supper at five—homemade bread, butter, milk, red beans, spinach and a peach. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z With her butter knife, she scraped off some of the peanut butter and licked it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Here was the menu: smothered chicken, rice and gravy, butter beans, sliced tomatoes, biscuits, and candlelight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother gets up suddenly and puts the lid back on the jar of peanut butter before returning it to the cupboard. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z So there I am with my books, busting over to Mtisha’s house feeling like my love had come down over me like butter coming down over popcorn. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing a silk bonnet like me, and it smells like the shea butter cream Mom puts in her hair before she twists it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “I hide in butter churn, breathe through reed of straw, while own brother killed in same house. After, I come to London to escape the hollows. But they come, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I ate two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as an early dinner. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z So here I am thirty miles out to sea in a blind fog with nothing but a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a jug of water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Green beans, snapped always the right length, collards, cabbage, juicy red tomato preserves that came into their own on steaming buttered biscuits, and sausage, beets, berries and every fruit grown in Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were farmers growing peanuts, hauling peanuts, making peanut oil, peanut butter, even peanut soap. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He lit the gas, melted the butter, poured in the eggs, and let them run all over the base of it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam called for tea in her bedchamber the next morning and sent for Ruth, who was pumping the butter churn with vigor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I always ate peanut butter and jelly at school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And why do I feel like he just told me I have to saw through my nuts with a plastic butter knife? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Now researchers think these hydrogenated trans fats in margarine are actually worse for our hearts than butter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The bakery next door had started making beignets for tomorrow morning, filling the stairwell with the smell of melting butter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Jule ate saltines and sugary peanut butter, packets of salami and chocolate bars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I took it to him on the window seat, gave him his scone, and buttered one for myself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I remember one time the evening ended with Loomis saying, “You know, white folks, when a man cast his bread pon de waters, it gwine come back buttered toast, praise Jesus.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Here in Japan, maybe this pack was valuable, like butter or sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I say, putting the bowl of peanut butter on the table. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z When he has peanut butter stuck in his braces, I tell him to clean it up. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With the homemade butter and Grandpa’s hair set, I brushed her until she shone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In exchange for the butter and sugar, the man gave them two bags that looked like about fifteen pounds of rice each. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Plus, there was a choice of buttered carrots, lima beans, french-fried onions, and potatoes au gratin. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Fudge buttered himself a crumpet and pushed the plate toward Harry. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Suesetta licks a dollop of peanut butter and waits for my answer. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Salma aunty chatters happily as she rolls her dough out like pizza, but instead of tomato sauce, she tops it with special butter called ghee. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z One of the country's most famous modern-day exports - Lurpak butter - features the horn both in its name and on its packaging. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Some kids put peanut butter in their hands as a gag, or have one of those shock buzzers, like in the cartoons. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I smear peanut butter on crackers for him—after confirming he’s not allergic—and serve them with a glass of iced tea. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Lord Bertulf pointed at me with a finger like a butter churn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Square cookies crowded the dish, smelling deliciously of butter and sugar, and Ophie’s mouth watered as she looked at them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged’s sausage and he buttered the crumb of the Aged’s roll. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I glance at Mr. Byrne, who is studiously buttering a baked potato. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I wonder how it would feel to spend your whole life trying to remember other people’s preferences on toast butter and starch amounts and sheet changing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A butter churn stood watch over a neat stack of fresh-split wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fine. If you throw in some buttered toast. And you wash the plate after.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Dowdel, I’ll come clean. I don’t think I better enter my bread-and- butter pickles this year, and I’m going to tell you why. The depression is upon us. Times are hard.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Our storehouse is filled to overflowing with the good things the ship has brought: wheat, pork, ale, wine, butter, and beef. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z They are ripe and sweet and like cutting through butter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow. ” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z You call them peanuts, and we eat them just the way you do, as snacks or in peanut butter, which we also put in sauces or in our porridge. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She sewed a cloth tightly around it, and rubbed the cloth all over with fresh butter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not even a wisp of Talent, that’s what they said, and yet somehow she had managed to stumble upon the world’s most perfect peanut butter recipe. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The cloud looked so solid, I’d have sworn I could jump on it like a feather bed, and yet the plane cut through it as easily as a hot knife in butter. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ira had been fed well on milk and butter and rice; Arjun too, for he was the first boy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down careful and Gloria Dump made me a peanut butter sandwich on white bread. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z As the sun dips low in the sky, Taryn and I unpack our baskets from home, which contain bread, butter, cheese, and plums. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now I wanted to make peanut butter banana pudding and “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” cookies filled with crushed-up pretzels, chocolate chips, toffee bits, and nuts. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z When the pieces were baked in the oven, Laura loved to spread the soft insides with butter and then scoop the yellow flesh from the rind and eat it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In silence she prepared crackers with peanut butter for Eliot, then sat reading old aerograms from a shoebox. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She stirs the lumps from the batter, pours it into the buttered, hissing pan. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z She put the dozen or so bottles of insulin that Rahel brought her in the cheese and butter compartment. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat down to a feast of the ham, huge plates of fried potatoes, ham gravy, hot com bread, fresh butter, and wild bee honey. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She nodded, blushing to the roots of her flaming hair, and put her elbow in the butter dish. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Late the next morning, Jam was twisting her hair in her bedroom, smearing whipped shea butter on her palms and applying it in sections while soca music played over her speakers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “We need to remember to bring some butter next time so we can grease up Travis,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I push open the door just as Tobias, who is sitting on the floor with one leg stretched out, hurls a butter knife at the opposite wall. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z So I would not say”—here she was crisp and sharp—“'Betty bought a bit of better butter’ or ‘Insert a quarter in the meter.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It bounced off a doorframe and landed with a thunk in a pan of melted butter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Phil fetched the cooler, which they had filled with sodas, juices, various kinds of cheese, several boxes of crackers, and jars of peanut butter and jelly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It had peanut butter sandwiches, baby oranges, packets of cheese crackers, and honey-roasted peanuts. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I said”—the Owner rose from his chair, his feet two inches above the ground—“where did you get this peanut butter?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Maybe because all the sandwiches would’ve been peanut butter, my mother’s favorite, and I wasn’t even that crazy about it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She went on to tell me about making a bird feeder by putting peanut butter on a pine cone and rolling it in bird seed. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The warmth spread through his fingers like melting butter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He forgot about bringing a lunch so I gave him one of Momma’s throat-choking peanut butter sandwiches and let him eat the last half of my apple. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded his head as though answering a question, and said, in a pleasant conversational tone, a tone of cooled butter, “Always.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z As she sipped the buttered tea, she would sometimes tell about the Underground Railroad, and that first trip she made to Canada, and how all of them were ragged, hungry, dirty, cold and afraid. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The bed and chairs of “fresh butter yellow.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I turned toward the front door, but then he began scratching scratching scratching his butter knife against his toast, the sound making me cringe inside. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I looked that rabbit over good, Marty, and you won’t find any buckshot in that thigh,” Dad says, buttering his bread. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The vegetables were overcooked, the cornmeal was too lumpy, the soup too watery, and the yam slices coarse from being boiled without a dollop of butter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Your glances stick to my heart like peanut butter to the gums!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Beer. And one of them little packages of cheese crackers with peanut butter in the inside.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He was about as fierce as one of Mom’s peanut butter cookies. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I take half the peanut butter sandwich off the plate and keep my eye on the box. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z If he’d have known how far his ears stuck out to the side I bet he never would have gotten that butter! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Secretly she tucked some buttered rolls in her pockets for later. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Doctors used to think margarine was healthier for you than butter and would not cause heart disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Each glistening eclair is a grenade aimed at Celia’s political beliefs, each strawberry shortcake proof—in butter, cream, and eggs—of Lourdes’s success in America, and a reminder of the ongoing shortages in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the living room they were talking about taking the train overnight to Kobe to get the butter and sugar in the next day or two. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As Cady swooped the last curl of peanut butter frosting onto the two-tiered peanut butter cake, she had a whole hour before she and Toby needed to leave for the competition. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It took me less than a minute to run down to Miss Volker’s yellow house which was glowing under the morning sun as if it had been carved out of melting butter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They ate the last peanut butter sandwiches sitting on a low stone wall, listening to a few birds and watching the sunlight fall in bright, moving patterns onto the leafy floor of the woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I use peanut butter morsels and chocolate chips. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The milk I churned would not turn into butter. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “If he agreed with me, then it wouldn’t be in your greasy hands right now. You’re probably getting peanut butter all over it!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Her white hair shudders like an angry cloud as she smears peanut butter onto the bread, all the while mumbling to herself. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I threw on my clothes and went downstairs to the kitchen, where hot chocolate and buttered toast waited for me on the counter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Isaiah doesn’t say which is evil, butter or honey,” Dad said, grinning as my brothers lugged the white tubs to the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich and drinking a Dr Pepper. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Shainmark takes a scone and passes the plate to Mama, then butters her pastry with the thick cream. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But I would say”—her voice very flat—“‘Insert a quarter in the meter’ or ‘Betty bought a bit of better butter.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When he eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, he ends up with a pound of peanut butter caught in his braces. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a concrete bird- bath and tons of feeders—hollowed-out gourds and rows of big pinecones sitting everywhere, each one smeared with peanut butter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A jar of peanut butter had crashed to the floor; someone had gotten a running start, jumped into it, and skied a brown, onefooted track to the stove. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His tongue was dry and stuck to the roof of his mouth, as if he’d licked an entire jar of peanut butter. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was amazing what a bit of scarce butter could do to bring a family together. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The snow was almost up to her knees, and she had to lift her legs up to move through it, first one then the other—like she was trying to walk through butter. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘I got two hard-boiled eggs—already stuffed—with separate little packages of salt and pepper. And sandwiches—blackberry jelly with butter. Everything wrapped in oil paper. And paper napkins.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z How she was going to mix the brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter with the fruit we’d bought, and then she just stopped talking. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For, of course, Yang Sze-Fu had molded the butter with his hands and carved the decorations with one of his long fingernails. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But first I turn over in my mind which snack I should mention—peanut butter banana or tomato soup. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Gogol and Sonia sleep for as long as they want, watch television, make themselves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at any time of day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dinner was mashed plantains with butter and fried cheese, Seven’s favorite. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I lick the obituaries and the sad memorial poems, the sports pages, the market prices of eggs butter and bacon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “So how much is a buttered roll and a juice?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Cookies—sugar, butter, cinnamon, flour, and more sugar. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I think it’s great that Ajit Uncle cooks. My mom and dadi are the cooks in my place. But they never make peanut butter chocolate chip pancakes.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I realize that I still have the hanger and butter knife in my hands. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The rest of the jam he spread in a thick layer on his buttered toast. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the town I went to the café to have a second coffee and some buttered toast. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A chipped crockery bowl appeared from the pantry, alongside the butter and eggs and milk and the sugar loaf and the nutmeg grater and the small amber flask. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There were heaps of fresh-baked white bread on the tables, gobs of butter, pots of marmalade. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks up at me thoughtfully, his left hand balancing two plates and his right hand holding the tub of butter. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Toby grabbed a breadstick and took a bite, trying to lose himself in the garlic and butter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She rendered goat fat into something like butter, and pulverized antelope meat into hamburgers with a device I think had been rigged from the propeller of a motorboat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl ate a slice of bread spread with butter and sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Showed ’em to the latrine, showed them new ones the trail to the salt chuck, showed ’em the best place for butter clams. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I take a scone and spread butter and honey on it. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Grandpop was standing at the counter, using a spoon to smear peanut butter on the side of an apple. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Peanut butter shampoo!” we say at the same time. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A quarrel between Dussel and the Franks over the division of butter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z With the paddle Ma packed butter tightly into the mold until it was full. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Grits, eggs, biscuits, and butter, bacon, collard greens, ham hocks, all the food I couldn’t eat before, I ate. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We drink our coffees black because he has no cream and we eat our toast dry because we can't find butter or jam. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There’s a sourdough loaf and butter, and a salad in a Tupperware bowl. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He rewards them for their kindness with a basket full of fresh bread and butter that magically replenishes itself and a hollow stone with a flame inside that never burns out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Too bad she didn't realize I don't need to be buttered up. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She spread the peanut butter with her jackknife, then wiped the blade clean on her shorts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There is plenty of salt and butter in the potatoes and I wonder if there’s any chance Minnie could be my mother so that I could eat like this all the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It smelled the same—like baby powder and toothpaste and peanut butter. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We can trade butter and sugar for rice. Everyone in Japan, they think of rice day and night,” Jiichan was saying. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He reached into his bag for the pack of peanut butter crackers that Train Ear had crushed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It has to be so hot the butter melts right away. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We’d gather around the cans, open them, and spoon up the peanut butter like soup, giggling as our mouths stuck closed with the gooey stuff. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey went into the second market, just after the stoplight at the center of town, and bought milk, peanut butter and bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baxter had given me the usual peanut butter and jelly sandwich, potato chips, and apple. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z From flour or butter, or whatever else he might be getting into in his kitchen. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They’d drop the soft claws and tails into my bowl of melted butter, as though they were feeding the queen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z My parents discussed it with me one night over a dinner of buttered noodles, my favorite meal. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z "Break it and I'll give you some butter since you gon' eat it right here. Lots of folks takes 'em home. They got their own butter at home." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She was very kind and thoughtful; she knew exacdy how I liked my coffee and fixed me peanut butter and Ritz crackers, but she didn’t say much at all. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Its two soft door-posts of custard, Its dais of curds and butter, Beds of glorious lard, Many shields of thin pressed cheese. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d got the other sock on and was buttering toast and his hair stood on end and Mum would have said he looked ‘the spit’ of Stan. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z She made us hot Cream of Wheat with real butter, then oversaw us while we cleared the table and washed the dishes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If you stop now I'll just go down, melt down like butter and leak right off the canvas. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I wiped the peanut butter off my face and looked at Nico pleadingly, like Can we get out of here now? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z "There's corn bread to go with it. And butter and honey." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Do you have any butter for that burn?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her skin lightens to the color of whipped butter and cream. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The elbows with butter and salt are extra buttery tonight, just the way Axel likes them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I grate cheese and melt it down with butter and milk for the macaroni au gratin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Loaded with butter,” I say, setting it on the coffee table and stuffing a huge, salty handful in my mouth. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “The lever was above the peanut butter shelf, right?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Cheskin colored it yellow so that it would look like butter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Oh, honey. Not quite so much butter,” Mom chided. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Her eyes spread like butter behind her thick glasses. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles buttered a slice of bread, gouged out a knifeful of jam, and spread it over the butter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I waved my arms like a butter churn gone mad. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She piled our plates with succulent fatty ribs and steaming collard greens and passed around a basket with neatly cut squares of corn bread, which we slathered with butter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When Ma took off the churn-cover, there was the butter in a golden lump, drowning in the buttermilk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and there might be enough to go around for once, without this bonehead hogging the butter and syrup.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was their bread and butter, their cream and honey, too. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “It takes just one person to ruin the whole thing, and then you wouldn’t have your fresh eggs fried in my pure creamery butter any more.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Only another sister, Rosa Amalia, holds hunger at bay: each Saturday, she brings Enrique’s grandmother milk, cheese, butter, rice, sugar, beans, and vegetables. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “He just said the funniest thing about peanut butter gelato...” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Once the kitchen smelled of cinnamon and butter, I easied down. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Or they’d be dabbing pinecones with peanut butter for the birds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached into the back, pulled out a wrapped stick of butter, frowned, and tossed it into the garbage. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As he drowned them in butter and syrup, he decided that last night had just been a hitch. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Rudyard had packed a tall thermos of milk and a package of tall biscuits slathered with butter and bright strawberry jam. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I look up and she smiles, a spoonful of peanut butter in her mouth. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z As a proof he produces on the spot two pounds of sugar for us and a half-pound of butter specially for Tjaden. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Curt would open the fridge, hold up a container labeled “hair butter,” and ask, “Okay to spread this on my toast?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Byrd follows Axel inside, where their family is waiting, and the buttered noodles are already on his plate. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I haven’t had anything to eat since choking down that peanut butter sandwich that Ma made for me this morning. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z She found a loaf of bread on sale for fifteen cents and a jar of peanut butter for seventy-one cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been shelling butter beans on the porch, and sweat glistened on the pearls of hair around her forehead. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You need cows and people to milk them and more people to churn that milk into butter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “It has everything to do with the price of butter!” he said through his teeth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s a market down in Irishtown where the farmers come on Saturdays with their vegetables, hens, eggs, butter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “But the other kicked and kicked, and in the morning they found him there, floating on a big pat of butter.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The toaster spidered out a piece of buttered bread for him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Peanut butter, white bread, canned figs, and string beans; she could taste the dust in all of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They had no need for butter without any bread, but they’d miss the milk and cheese sorely. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And so from then on I wouldn’t eat anything but peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches for lunch. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Many items are rationed—meat, cheese, butter, lard, coffee, sugar, silk, nylon, shoes; our entire way of business changes as we work with those flimsy blue booklets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Next the beast knocked over a jar of apple butter, but the skin lid was tied on tightly, and, flail away at it as he might with his awkward paw, he could not dislodge it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The peanut butter is thick, and it takes a long time for me to swallow just one bite. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Look, Alex. Peanut butter. Look at all these different kinds of jams and jellies.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z To which Mom replies, “Serves you right. You shouldn’t be eating peanut butter before dinner.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She breathed in deep and, despite the unfamiliar clothes, could still smell her mother’s scent, shea butter lotion and a hint of pencil lead. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “She has a huge sweet tooth. I know your mom’s been buttering her up—bringing her Pakistani candy, making her sweet chai tea.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z To Alex, airplanes and dogs went together like peanut butter and baloney, which happened to be his favorite sandwich. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “He wants peanut butter. He misses peanut butter. He misses ‘good food’ in general.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They poured wine and ale and feasted on cured meats and aged cheeses and crumbly cakes, heavy with butter and cream. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z So did everyone else, even ‘Croaker’ as the girls called the old lady, and the unfortunate dinner ended gaily, with bread and butter, olives and fun. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We all get in line; it’s oatmeal and peanut butter. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She held the pencil like a butter knife and her penmanship was as bad as Clever’s. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Pads of butter floated on the surface and a faint chickeny aroma fumed up to my nostrils. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Would you like some peanut butter and crackers?” she said. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Chocolate and peanut butter—despite the fact that I do my best to avoid the intake of refined sugar—are a worthy combination. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Mama would laugh and rub cocoa butter on our skin to keep it from drying out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They didn’t eat meat, and they didn’t use butter. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Manet tore a piece of bread in half and daubed butter onto it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “But why you folks shouldn’t enjoy a bit of butter in your golden years, I don’t know.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Then he put the plate of peanut butter cookies on the table and sat down across from me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He’d built grenades that could spray acid, fire, shrapnel, or freshly buttered popcorn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The peanut butter, which was supposed to dissolve in the milk, broke off into clumps, like soft pebbles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Starving, he made himself a peanut butter jam sandwich and holed up in his room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She loved buttered bread, and probably felt bad about taking one more thing from a cow. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Loaves of bread, jars of peanut butter and grape jelly. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Peach meticulously put away the pickles, the butter, the biscuits. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The hallway was dark, except for the bathroom light spilling onto the carpet like melted butter. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Hanako remembered that Papa used to buy fresh butter for the restaurant twice a week. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He liked to steal her sneakers and bury peanut butter sandwiches. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The paper is rough, thick, and the color of butter. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z By sunset, though, the forest has disappeared, replaced by rolling wheat fields and cow pastures: Normandy, breadbasket and butter churn of France. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then Dad starts slathering his toast in butter, while Mom takes a long sip of her orange juice. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They had just had their snacks, so the room smelled of peanut butter, crackers, chips, and oranges. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He pauses with his knife against a piece of bread, a glob of butter waiting to be spread, and stares at the table. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A couple of weeks later they went to Kobe and got more butter and sugar to trade for rice. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But even the teachers got some—the best kebab in Isfahan, with buttered rice and roasted tomatoes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then I covered the chicken slices with caviar thickly as if I were spreading peanut butter on a piece of bread. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I scoop out a lump of peanut butter and dump it into a bowl. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I made us a good dinner of pork chops that was grilled with special sauce and potatoes cut thin and sauteed in butter and fresh green beans. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Besides milk they got cream and butter from it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come on. A guy like Adam going to a Yo-Yo Ma concert? He was buttering you up.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s more concerned with the placement of a butter knife than giving Axel the truth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I say with a mouth full of peanut butter. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I fixed each of us little bowls of vinegar, melted butter, and Old Bay spice for dipping the crabmeat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The peanut butter was smooth and dark and slid into the cracks in the floor. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I investigate the sacks from Mrs. Krawiecka, and there are four kilos of beans, four kilos of flour, kasha, butter, salt, a sack of potatoes, and two cabbages. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She was demonstrating the use of a pioneer butter churn, and her eyes roamed all over the crowds beside the street. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Sandwiches arrived from outside, strange granular bread, the butter on it liquid, some sort of beige meat paste that hinted of ptomaine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There was one small icebox that held milk, butter, eggs and cold cuts in plastic packaging. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m afraid all those childhood lessons in holiness slid off me like hot butter off the griddle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask, smearing a little extra butter on my crust and giving it to Boomer, who has been sniffing around the turkey waiting to be stuffed on the counter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “We will go tomorrow to Kobe for butter and sugar. That will help.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I ate hot biscuits with butter and peach preserve, drank some of his coffee, and had a little cold ham. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He hurriedly slipped the butter in and moved the wood so the butter would not show. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Open the kitchen cabinet where the peanut butter was kept and you were face to fossil face with an extinct fox. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He tried to say something, and began to choke on a mouthful of peanut butter and jelly. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He finds a peanut butter cluster ball covered in shiny silver wrapping. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dinner was at a big dining room table that was generously covered in platters of meat, bowls of mashed potatoes and corn on the cob, a teetering plate of bread, and a tub of butter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Under the sizzle of the frying butter and the hum of talk, Lyra shifted around to find a more comfortable position for herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z At the same time he sniffed, trying to get wind of the peanut butter at the end of the maze. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z While we were eating, she asked me to go to Kellam’s afterward to get some cream and butter. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When it’s my turn, I fill my plate with rice, shami kabob, lentils, and butter chicken, skipping the cauliflower and salad, and pile the naan high before carefully carrying it downstairs to the basement. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z An open tin of butter cookies sat on the table. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She poured the melted butter and the cheese into the egg-mixture, and whisked it some more. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z When she had finished the last bite of sandwich, she licked butter from her fingers and looked up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For the next half hour, Madge and I dump out our candy and swap, lollipops for chocolate bars, peanut butter cups for packs of gum. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He set Ralph down in front of an opening in a cardboard wall and said, “When Brad fires his cap pistol, go for the peanut butter.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The peanut butter molds to the roof of my mouth like a retainer. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He dug butter for his second slice and left a slop of jam on the butter roll. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At home she would have been having buttered toast and strawberry jam and probably a piece of sponge-cake to round it off. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the name of choice back in third grade when I ate peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches every day for lunch. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He had peanut butter in his whiskers, and he kept yawning and stretching. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Dinner was pretzels and peanut butter with a side of canned peaches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “I thought we had some from the butter and sugar we traded.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He wolfed down bread, butter, and a mushroom omelette. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The porridge was too thick, Tyrion felt, and wanted butter and honey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It has too many onions in it, and I push my food around on my plate with my naan, wishing I were eating the rest of my peanut butter sandwich from lunch instead. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Doc mom fed us bagels with butter and sweet tomato jam she’d made from her own summer garden, and we drank black coffee and orange juice. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She had a peanut butter sandwich and a heap of guavas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some peanut butter gets stuck in my throat, but it’s not the only reason I swallow. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “I know you’re under the table,” I tell him, watching the microwave warm up my peanut butter. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z When we go home Mam makes tea and bread and jam or mashed potatoes with butter and salt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The little, firm pat of golden butter came out, with the strawberry and its leaves molded on the top. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A few parents stand behind a long table and sell homemade baked goods, including Emily’s mom, who passes out her peanut butter cookies. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She slices the other half of the onion and fries it in butter with slices of bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Soup spoons, gravy boat, butter knives, salad forks and carving platter were additions to my vocabulary and in fact almost represented a new language. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, potato chips, and Dr Peppers were served by skeletal crewmen. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Every day she wiped every cheese carefully with a wet cloth, then rubbed it all over with fresh butter once more, and laid it down on its other side. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinner in the Mess was brown bread with butter, stew, and beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Peanut butter crackers were bad for playing the blues harp, but they were okay after a day of anger and starvation. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I insisted on “regular” lunch foods like peanut butter. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The trap was still there, a little glop of peanut butter as bait. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z His tongue felt like it was coated in peanut butter. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, I took my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and carrots out of my brown bag. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He sat down with his espresso and spread butter on the baguette. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He had been out and brought back with him a handful of tiny apples, some dried venison, fresh butter, and several dozen more bottles of wine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Gravy on the turkey" was what she called it when someone was buttering her up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Cold chicken, crisp pickles, butter biscuits, and peach pie were laid out on the table. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Walensky shrugged and fired a cigar, “Smooth as butter. What’s going on anyway, Doc? First, there’s no work for three days and then we have this mess of jiggers.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z But other books, they were as slippery as marbles in butter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “I can find all the fresh butter we need in Sicily for twenty- five cents a pound,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She held a small carton box of butter cookies in front of me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z As of tomorrow, we won’t have a scrap of fat, butter or margarine. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She ran past Reyna, who was cantering back and forth on her pegasus Scipio—nicknamed Skippy because he was the color of peanut butter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Several minutes later he emerged, bringing out cheese and a loaf of dark bread, cold chicken and sausage, butter and honey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was no butter for the potatoes, but there was salt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m hungry. I haven’t had peanut butter since we got here! Let’s go back to camp.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They jump up from the table, saunter into the kitchen for more butter, or the salt, which has been forgotten. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone knows butter comes from milk, not the other way around.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The other is comprised of the exterior walls and roof, a brick-and-concrete shell that fits over the cells like a dish over a stick of butter. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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