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    1. He was so fascinated with that vision that it took him a moment to realize that Fernanda was wearing a white nightgown that reached down to her ankles, with long sleeves and with a large, round buttonhole, delicately trimmed, at the level of her lower stomach


    2. In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when the milk was about to boil


    3. He was inebriated and jabbing his elbows through the air, for he was trying to rid himself of his vest and had got his thumb stuck in a buttonhole


    4. "You are using buttonhole thread, aren't you?" he asked the woman pushing a needle in and out of Derrick's lips


    5. No good, thought Soames, no good at all, putting on spats and sticking a carnation in your buttonhole if you were a coot


    6. You might as well try, she thought, to buttonhole water; and she would laugh and go back to whatever she was doing with a blithe feeling that it was very ideal, this perfect independence of one another, this spaciousness of freedom to do exactly what each one liked


    7. breast pocket, sported a gold watch with a chain attached to his buttonhole, and


    8. Luzhin has any orders of merit; I bet he has the Anna in his buttonhole and that he puts it on when he goes to dine with contractors or merchants


    9. Brooke, still watching the river, and playing with the wild rose in his buttonhole


    10. "I'll do my best to gratify you, Sir," was Laurie's unusually dutiful reply, as he carefully unpinned the posy Jo had put in his buttonhole

    11. She put them in his buttonhole as a peace offering, and he stood a minute looking down at them with a curious expression, for in the Italian part of his nature there was a touch of superstition, and he was just then in that state of half-sweet, half-bitter melancholy, when imaginative young men find significance in trifles and food for romance everywhere


    12. In his buttonhole is an immense dahlia


    13. It was unusual for Clyntahn to buttonhole someone—especially another member of the Group of Four—outside his office or a council chamber, and especially not when there were other witnesses, like the dozen or so priests and upper-priests taking advantage of the morning sunlight


    14. “Just put that in your buttonhole,” Rick said


    15. Suddenly the Buzzin’ starts again, an’ I am pull’d, like a silk Scarf thro’ a Buttonhole, an’ lo! I am back in me own Body, an’ in horrible Pain as the Blood returns to its proper Channels, an’ with horrible Pain in me Neck as I hang upon the Fatal Tree


    16. Same man: remarkable northern accent, knack for dressing sensibly despite belonging to a nation of civil servants who favoured morning coats with buttonhole flowers


    17. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the sepulchre


    18. extent, and one is accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding nosegay in its buttonhole


    19. Then Florentino Ariza stopped kissing her and letting her kiss him so that he could do the only thing he was responsible for in that precise ceremony: he took his watch and chain out of the buttonhole in his vest and took off his glasses and put them in his boots so he would be sure not to forget them


    20. First she smelled the jacket and the vest while she took the watch chain out of the buttonhole and removed the pencil holder and the billfold and the loose change from the pockets and placed everything on the dresser, and then she smelled the hemmed shirt as she removed the tiepin and the topaz cuff links and the gold collar button, and then she smelled the trousers as she removed the keyholder with its eleven keys and the penknife with its mother-of-pearl handle, and finally she smelled the underwear and the socks and the linen handkerchief with the embroidered monogram

    21. He was buttoning his fly as he came, and his old hands were having trouble finding the buttons, for he had buttoned the top button into the second buttonhole, and that threw the whole sequence off


    22. George at his buttonhole and a plain forage cap set straight on his head


    23. The Honourable John appeared, resplendent in all the glory of a silk hat and frock coat, with a flower in his buttonhole, his hands gloved in lemon-coloured kids, and his feet shiny with patent leather; the people parted to let him pass, and stared at him as if he were a marquis at the very least, but the porter flung his portmanteau over the bulwarks like that of any other common tourist; John himself, with more agility than I gave him credit for, sprang aboard only just in time, as the men shouted "All clear aft, sir


    1. She suspected that she was going to be buttonholed


    2. It's why I went away--because you were buttonholing me, just as he buttonholed somebody


    3. She buttonholed him as he was limping out quickly with a glass of lemonade for a young lady and asked him was it true


    4. When he got back ashore, he walked up to a reporter at the shell house, buttonholed him, and rendered a startling verdict: “Tom Bolles has a fine rough-water boat,” he said quietly but forcefully


    5. He buttonholed people on the street and related details of his child’s miraculous progress without even prefacing his remarks with the hypocritical but polite:


    6. In another corner was the general, holding forth to a group of hearers, among them Ptitsin, whom he had buttonholed


    1. His brown hair is tousled, his shirt buttons in the wrong buttonholes


    2. I notice that his shirt’s buttons are in the wrong buttonholes


    3. She does her own hair, and I am teaching her to make buttonholes and mend her stockings


    4. I was thanking my stars that I'd learned to make nice buttonholes, when the parlor door opened and shut, and someone began to hum, --


    5. He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches


    6. Then a rush was made to Sweater's Emporium and several yards of cheap green ribbon were bought, and divided up into little pieces, which they tied into their buttonholes, and thus appropriately decorated, formed themselves into military order, four deep, and marched through all the principal streets, up and down the Grand Parade, round and round the Fountain, and finally over the hill to Windley, singing to the tune of `Tramp, tramp, tramp, the Boys are marching':


    7. And there on the dummy in the center of the room was the phosphorescent, the miraculously white-fired ghost with the incredible lapels, the precise stitching, the neat buttonholes


    8. Grampa, fumbling with his chest, had succeeded in buttoning the buttons of his blue shirt into the buttonholes of his underwear


    1. It's why I went away--because you were buttonholing me, just as he buttonholed somebody


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