52 collocations for buttons

And Donnegan, as he buttoned the coat, was nodding slightly to the rhythm of a song which came from the cabin of the colonel near by.

CHAPTER XIV A COOL ENCOUNTER On leaving the house Mershone buttoned his overcoat tightly up to his chin, for the weather was cold and raw, and then shot a quick glance around him.

" "Exactly so," said Louis from the doorway, where he stood leisurely buttoning his gloves.

Had it not been for him we should have been going about with locks unkempt and buttoning our jackets (like barbarians) on the left.

Not a word was spoken for miles: for the circumstance of its being dark increased the distrust of all, and, in the firm conviction that I was an adventurer, they had already, I make no doubt, buttoned up their pockets, and diligently adjusted their watch-chains.

As the Boy buttoned the fur-lined flap down over their heads he felt angrier with the Colonel than he had ever been before.

Then he buttoned the two lower buttons of his vest and pulled the garment in question over the protruding butt.

Ay, Landlord, this will be best; for I can button the cape over the lower part of my face.

I can button up my vest and look respectable, but they's hayseeds and shuttlin's all over you, and besides I got a necktie, and yore handkerchief is so sloshed up you can't tie it round yore neck.

To hide it as far as possible he buttoned his overcoat collar about his neck.

And, in verity, I near slapt her then upon her pretty shoulders, but that she ceased from her tempting of me; and instead she turned her shoulders to me, even as a child, that I button her garment for her.

Her exclamation had no apparent effect on him until he had buttoned his waistcoat and arranged his watch-chain.

"I managed a little note to Mark," he said when she had buttoned the loose shirt again and he had sunk back, white and exhausted, among his pillows.

These are such whose fathers had need leave them money, even to make them ready withal; for, by these hilts, they have not wit to button their sleeves without teaching: close, squat, close.

When she was settled in her saddle, the maid stepped up on the block and buttoned her habit, which I must say fitted beautifullyas if she were melted into it.

Tunk Hosely stood by the door, buttoning suspenders with one hand and holding a musket in the other.

"Nothing can be more injurious to health," says a foreign writer, "than the tight jacket, buttoned up to the throat, the well-fitted boots, and the stiff stock."

So one of the angels in the house knitted for him a sort of woollen sweater buttoned down his neck and under his belly, and trimmed it with some white fur that gave it an exceedingly smart appearance.

Do we not feel that if we had been on the point of offering comfort or alms to the mourner, and saw him go through this extraordinary piece of pantomime, we should have buttoned up our hearts and pockets forthwith?

" With a sad little smile Miss Lydia watched him button his "Father Hubbard" and depart, pausing at the door, as he always did, to bow profoundly.

it do seem that comical!" saying which, Adam buttoned the money into a capacious pocket, slapped it, nodded, and rose.

For some miles the Professor had been drawing things about him, and as he buttoned a newspaper under his coat remarked, "The modern newspaper is admirably designed to keep people warmboth inside and out.

Spread one poncho on-the ground, buttoned end at the feet, buttoned side to the left; spread the blankets on top of the poncho; tie the edges of the blankets together with the tapes provided; spread a second poncho on top of the blankets, buttoned end at the feet, buttoned side to the right; button the two ponchos together along both sides and across the end.

The next morning, therefore, I buttoned a whole ream of paperof which there was never a scarcity in our homeunder my coat, and went to the office.

One time the maid pinched her foot while buttoning her shoe and what does the prima donna do but bounce her whole makeup box on the top of the maid's defenseless nob.

52 collocations for  buttons