When he recovered his footing, which was a business of some difficulty, for the bus pitched upon a broken pavement, what was his chagrin to find that a front button of his coat had hooked in her back hair!

how many applicants there were always for the most insignificant placesa Frenchman loves a cap with gold braid and gilt buttons on his coat.

He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts.

His heart, you may be sure, looks through the buttons at his back.

Twelve dozen of buttons for three shillings.

Told him to his face his gold was dirty, and washed it off his hands with a lookGawd! you could see Austin was mad clear through, from his shirt-buttons to his spine.

Rub the buttons with a piece of flannel and salt, to take off the skin; cut off the stalks, and put them in a stewpan with the above ingredients, previously kneading together the butter and flour; boil the whole for about ten minutes, stirring all the time.

I have but two lawyers in Russia, and one of those I mean to hang as soon as I return;" or when at Berlin, having been shown a new gibbet, he ordered one of his servants to be hanged in order to test it; or in his review of parade fights, when he ordered his men to use ball, and to take the buttons off their bayonets.

" Kaviak had meanwhile made a prosperous voyage to the plenty-bowl, and returned to Mac's sidean absurd little figure in a strange priest-like cassock buttoned from top to bottom (a waistcoat of Mac's), and a jacket of the Boy's, which was usually falling off (and trailed on the ground when it wasn't), and whose sleeves were rolled up in inconvenient muffs.

In her dark-blue dress, with the row of silver buttons down what was hip before the hipless age, the chest sufficiently concave and the silhouette a mere stroke of a hard pencil, Miss Selene Coblenz measured up and down to America's Venus de Milo, whose chief curvature is of the spine.

Before commencing to make the bed, the servant should put on a large bed-apron, kept for this purpose only, which should be made very wide, to button round the waist and meet behind, while it should be made as long as the dress.

A thousand memories rushed upon me at the sight of the long plush coat which I had so often buttoned about her, with a troubled heart.

It was buttoned into a flap pocket.

His eyes were rivetted on something; at last he touched it with his knife, arid exclaimed, "Kirhappa, dar dhia!"[A button by G.]

When they grew up, a wooden button like the bowl of a spoon was set in the hole and constantly enlarged.

Some there be who regard pictures as implements of idolatry; while the Hook-and-Eye Baptists look upon buttons as immoral.

She took off the great goggles that covered half his face and opened the coat that was so tightly buttoned around his neck, which it seemed must be choking him.

I have likewise received eleven bad shillings on the road between Liverpool and this place, and it is hardly to be wondered at, for the shilling pieces here are just like old buttons without eyes, without the sign of an impression on them, and one who is not accustomed to this sort of money will never know the difference.

The chair went over backward and came down with a crash, but not before his excellency's fingers had succeeded in touching an electric button near the desk.

This article he wore very tight to the leg, and buttoned over the ankle, exactly as we see it in old prints of 'the fashion.'

'O, ho!' says he, 'what you didn't see was the electric button under the table cover which rung a bell when the mouse was picked up.

Six full-grown persons, he added, could be easily buttoned within his waistcoat; and his tailor, he asserted, was obliged to mount a ladder when he measured him for a jacket.

The other day I brought home a few fish, and in preparing one of these for table our cook discovered your button inside itI wonder the fish had not come to an untimely end before from such an indigestible meal!

"What is it?" demanded Mr. Vickers, in a voice husky with astonishment; "a bean-feast?" Miss Vickers, who was doing up a glove which possessed more buttons than his own waistcoat, looked up and eyed him calmly.

" The incident had had such a besetting and disagreeable effect that Jack would have found it difficult to rid his mind of it if he had not had a more centering and pressing object in prospect in the citadel of the push-buttons behind the glass marked "Private.