1.   As Sharpless, the American consul at Nagasaki, advises Butterfly that perhaps Pinkerton will never return, she carries out the son born after Pinkerton left.

2.   A posh Damascus restaurant kicks out the American consul.

3.   He had gained the confidence of the American consul in Geneva, who permitted him to send messages to the United States using State Department cable facilities.

4.   He went to Havana, for convalescence, and under a special act of Congress, he was sworn into office there by the American consul.

5.   Ted Gong, an American consul in nearby Guangzhou, had already arrived on the island.

6.   The tenor Bernard Fitch was a suitably slick Goro, and the baritone William Shimell was an elegant Sharpless, the well-meaning but weak-willed American consul.

7.   Under an agreement between the United States and China, an American consul has the right to visit him.

8.   William Shimell sang the American consul.