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Definition of Buttles
1. buttle [v] - See also: buttle
Literary usage of Buttles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Condensed Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of Ohio by Phineas Bacon Wilcox, Charles Hammond, Ohio Supreme Court (1832)
"That decision is decisive of this case. Tnc non-suit must be set aside, and a
new trial directed. STARLING t-. buttles. Where a surely, under the statute, ..."
2. The Dictionary of English History edited by Frederick Sanders Pulling, Sidney Low (1896)
"He reigned only seven months, and during that time he had fought live great
buttles, in three of which he was completely victorious, and in the others only ..."
3. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"Carrion-crows, hva-nas, jackals etc. perform the duties of medical police after
buttles. During epidemic diseases etc., earthen pipes, about 20 inches deep, ..."
4. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1894)
"There are names that stir one like a trumpet, or like the sound of the sea, or
like the ripple of leaves : names Girl Blowing buttles. ..."
5. Vital Records of Granville, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 by Granville (Mass. : Town) (1914)
"buttles, Silence and Elijah Clark of Suffield, Hartford Co., and July 9], PR6.]
Conn., int. Mar. 31, 1823. [m. [rec. between Apr. 3 BUTTOLPH, Jonathan] Jr. ..."
6. History of Stoneham, Massachusetts by William Burnham Stevens, Francis Lester Whittier (1891)
"He then went to work in the shoe factory of Sweetser, buttles & Co., where he
was also employed about ten years, when he accepted a salaried position with ..."
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