Example Sentences

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Against his master’s protests, he resigned his butlership.

From Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Barr, Robert

For once, and once only, in the long course of his butlership did the placid and unmoved calm of his manner entirely desert Jessop.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie

And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand; but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

From Types of Children's Literature by Barnes, Walter

"Madame is dressing," announced that most faithful of old servitors, Henri, who before Alice conferred a full-fledged butlership upon him in his old age was since his youth a stage-carpenter at the Th��tre Fran�ais.

From A Village of Vagabonds by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)

But it will all come right; and if I were you, I should go in for the butlership.

From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville