True, it is no longer cricket for the butler to be the killer in mystery fiction, but we are dealing here with actual people in real life and not imaginary characters and situations.

In the series, E. Blackadder Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales ( the prince is played by Hugh Laurie as a complete fop and idiot ).

In the Partridge story, an aristocratic family living in Park Lane is searching for a lost dog, and an American answers the advertisement with a shaggy dog that he has found and personally brought across the Atlantic, only to be received by the butler at the end of the story who takes one look at the dog and shuts the door in his face saying " But not so shaggy as that, sir!

The couple lives mostly on credit, and while Rawdon seems to be too dim-witted to be aware of the effect of his borrowing on the people around him, Becky is fully aware that her heavy borrowing and her failure to pay bills bankrupts at least two innocent people: her servant, Briggs, whose life savings Becky borrows and fritters away, and her landlord Raggles, who was formerly a butler to the Crawley family and who invested his life savings in the townhouse that Becky and Rawdon rent ( and fail to pay for ).

A butler is a domestic worker, generally in a large household and usually the senior male servant.

When the butler is mistaken for a wealthy Englishman, he becomes a small-town celebrity.

In Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, Daffy refers to the butler who is refusing to let him see the reclusive billionaire and ailing buzzsaw baron JP Cubish as ' Ruggles '.

Hans-Ribaldi's butler, Hans, is a comical man with a strange accent.

It is revealed that Wadsworth is the true Mr. Boddy, and that the " Mr. Boddy " who was killed was his own butler.

Irene is apologetic and offers him a job as the family butler, which he gratefully accepts.

Mistaken for the undertaker to a recently deceased pet chimpanzee, he is ushered in by the mysterious butler, Max Von Mayerling ( Von Stroheim ).

In the damaged tomb ( TT188 ) of the royal butler Parennefer, the new king Amenhotep IV is accompanied by a royal woman, and this lady is thought to be an early depiction of Nefertiti.

He is best known for playing the role of Niles the butler, in the CBS sitcom The Nanny.

He is a devoted butler with high standards and particularly concerned with " dignity "

The most important aspect of Stevens's life is his dignity as an English butler.

He is best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, as Gordon Brittas in the BBC sitcom The Brittas Empire and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the Tomb Raider franchise films.

The Prince Regent swaps clothes with Blackadder ( who is his butler ) and says " This reminds of that story-The Prince and the Porpoise ".

The elephant-headed butler is an unused creature from Gilliam's earlier film Time Bandits.

For example sending an SMS to someone reading " I have to go, the waiter is here " when you are not at a restaurant is an example of a butler lie.

* In Alexandre Dumas's The Queen's Necklace, the Duke of Richelieu and his butler discuss the arrangements to get one special bottle of Tokaji, which they expect to please the king Gustav III of Sweden at a dinner the Duke is going to host.

With assistance from Bear, who poses as a butler named " Mr. Belvedere ", Jim nearly succeeds in keeping the activities a secret, until Michelle's mother opens a closet door and is shocked to find Kevin inside, stripped to his boxers and tied to a chair ( following a kinky game with the strippers ).

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

The artist looks at an ankle, a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes drop away and he sees her as she really is.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

`` That tub is going to explode all at once ''.

But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Already accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions within the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disarmament and nearly all other questions of national security.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.

Nowhere in Isfahan is this rich aesthetic life of the Persians shown so well as during the promenade at the Khaju bridge.

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

That, at any rate, is what happens at the Khaju bridge.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

But it is different at Chartres.