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such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork.

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butcher meat slaughter	He observed that the butchers stalls contained neither mutton, goat, nor pork; and, knowing also that it is a sacrilege to kill cattle, which are preserved solely for farming, he made up his mind that meat was far from plentiful in Yokohama-- nor was he mistaken; and, in default of butcher's meat, he could have wished for a quarter of wild boar or deer, a partridge, or some quails, some game or fish, which, with rice, the Japanese eat almost exclusively. Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context (an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years) contrived the marriage, at a period when Sparsit was just of age, and chiefly noticeable for a slender body, weakly supported on two long slim props, and surmounted by no head worth mentioning. Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context For my part, I was never overfond o' gentlefolks's servants--they're mostly like the fine ladies' fat dogs, nayther good for barking nor butcher's meat, but on'y for show. Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context	But if but then but- But-thorn butacaine butacaine sulfate butadiene butane butanoic acid butanol butanone butat Butazolidin butch butcher butcher bird butcher block butcher board Butcher Cumberland butcher knife butcher meat butcher paper butcher shop butcher's butcher's broom Butcher's meat butcher's-broom butcher-block butcherbird Butchering Butcherliness Butcherly butchery Bute Butea Butea frondosa butea gum butea kino Butea monosperma Butenandt butene butenedioic acid buteo Buteo buteo Buteo jamaicensis Buteo lagopus Buteo lineatus buteonine Buteshire Buteyko method Buthelezi	butcher block Butcher Block Mountains Butcher blocks Butcher blocks butcher board Butcher Cumberland Butcher Harris butcher knife butcher linen butcher meat Butcher of Baghdad Butcher of Baghdad Butcher of Beijing Butcher of Beijing Butcher of Lyon butcher paper butcher shop Butcher steel Butcher Treatment Planning Inventory butcher's Butcher's Apron butcher's block butcher's block butcher's broom butcher's broom butcher's brooms butcher's brooms butcher's dog disease butcher's jelly butcher's joints Butcher's meat Butcher's Warts butcher's-broom Butcher-bird Butcher-bird butcher-block butcherbird butcherbird Butcherblock Butcherblock Butcherblock Mountains butchered butchered butcherer butcherer butcheries butcheries butchering butchering Butcherliness butcherly butchers butchers Butchers block Butchers block Butchers Broom Butchers Broom butchery butchery butches BUTD

He observed that the butchers stalls contained neither mutton, goat, nor pork; and, knowing also that it is a sacrilege to kill cattle, which are preserved solely for farming, he made up his mind that meat was far from plentiful in Yokohama-- nor was he mistaken; and, in default of butcher's meat, he could have wished for a quarter of wild boar or deer, a partridge, or some quails, some game or fish, which, with rice, the Japanese eat almost exclusively.

Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context

(an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years) contrived the marriage, at a period when Sparsit was just of age, and chiefly noticeable for a slender body, weakly supported on two long slim props, and surmounted by no head worth mentioning.

Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context

For my part, I was never overfond o' gentlefolks's servants--they're mostly like the fine ladies' fat dogs, nayther good for barking nor butcher's meat, but on'y for show.

Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context

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