39 Words to use with buttons

Don't you think the ribbon would look well in your button-hole?" Simmonds was staring at the speaker as though he thought he had suddenly gone mad.

'Poor little button-boy!'

INGREDIENTS.1/2 pint of button mushrooms, 1/2 pint of good beef gravy, No. 435, 1 tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup (if at hand), thickening of butter and flour.

Button hand book.

There was a shrill squeal, a flutter of white, and a neat pair of button boots waving in the air.

INGREDIENTS.1/2 pint of stock No. 105, 1/2 pint of port wine, 1 dozen button onions, a few mushrooms, a faggot of herbs, 2 blades of mace, 1 oz. of butter, 1 teaspoonful of minced parsley, thyme, 1 shalot, 2 anchovies, 1 teacupful of stock No. 105, flour, 1 dozen oysters, the juice of 1/2 lemon; the number of tench, according to size.

He said they looked foppish, but I just got the button-hook and put them on him while he was arguing, and asked him who thought of this picnic anyway!

"But if he is a button-maker, he can't be a professor," said Ann shrewdly.

If a plucky girl who works in a button factory refuses to buy an ornament which she at first thought of getting to decorate her belt, and puts that twenty-five cents into a War Saving Stamp, all in the spirit of backing up her man at the front, she will not find herself thrown out of employment; instead, while demands for unnecessary ornamental fastenings will gradually cease, she will be kept busy on government orders.

The little button-sewers of Muscatine, Iowa, formed a juvenile union during the long strike of 1911.

Instructions for using and adjusting Singer machine 178-1, hand operated single thread chain stitch for button sewing.

And into his boot-button eyes, that had long ago lost their polish, there came a look of wisdom and beauty, so that even Nana noticed it next morning when she picked him up, and said, "I declare if that old Bunny hasn't got quite a knowing expression!"

The whole of a sum can be gone through on this board with the button-moulds, and on boards and chalk with figures, side by side, thus interpreting symbol by material; but the whole process is abstract.

Perhaps he is a button-moulder.

Button-men who go visiting on Sunday must learn to wait.

Button-moulding is what he professes.

Her face was round; her little button mouth was round; the comical stub of a nose which perched above it gave the effect of being round, too, while the deep dimple that indented her chin was very, very round.

"Will I die soon?" Schulze reflected, rubbing his red-button nose with his stubby fingers.

As for the book-shelf beside the chimley, sirexactly three foot three,sunk in a recessheight, the third button o' my coat,capacity, fourteen books.

There are literary green-groceries at every corner, which will buy anything, from a button-pear to a pine-apple.

Even if it is just the framework for a much more substantial future version, it is based on a fundamentally flawed vision of push-button politics.

Merle, dressed in his Sunday clothes, trod squeakily in the new shoes, which were button shoes surpassing in elegance any he had hitherto worn.

Every so often he sewed a button tighter.

The willows and button-wood trees at the back of the workshops were still smoking with sunlit mist, and the quiet, massive, pretty water looked like a sleepy mirror, as it softly flooded along to its work on the big, dripping wheels.

He had frequently restored to me sixpences and shillings carelessly dropped upon the floor, for I am apt to be very reckless in such shirt-button affairs.

39 Words to use with  buttons