117 Verbs to Use for the Word buttoning

I pressed the electric button, and in answer a tall, clean-shaven Russian servant opened the door.

Someone touches a button ... you know.

" The boys waited for fully a minute and then, as nobody came to answer their summons, Dick pushed the button again.

They haven't seemed to care a button whether they told the truth or not!

I was in the matron's room, getting her to sew two buttons on my waistcoat.

"My fur and whiskers," said Bunny, "I never had a grandchild named Tippy Toes!" "Bless my buttons," said Susan, "What a cute little name.

"There's one old woman, over a hundred years old, whose skin is like a piece of parchment, and she wears the hideous lip-button which most of the Thlinkits have stopped using.

'Only I must cut off those buttons.

I turned the button and a door at the back of the wardrobe flew open.

" "All right; have you got a coin?" "No, but I think I've got a brass button.

At the end of the unaltered play of Lear, there is a beautiful example of poetic painting; the old King is introduced as dying from grief for the loss of Cordelia; at this crisis, Shakespear, conceiving the robe of the king to be held together by a clasp, represents him as only saying to an attendant courtier in a faint voice, "Pray, Sir, undo this button,thank you, Sir," and dies.

Only a week before, they had passed through the same country-side crying "Nach Paris!" and polishing up buttons, belts, rifles, accoutrements generally, so as to enter the French capital in grande tenue.

And sure enough Dick, gravely arming himself from the store in Rosa's "catch-all," set to fastening the big buttons as composedly as if he had been brought up in a tailor's shop.

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

"We shall all have to live up to your shoulder-straps and brass buttons after this, Wesley," she cried, as the proud young dandy strutted over the arabesques of the library, where the delighted papa marched him, the better to survey the boy's splendor.

She was to all appearances attempting to twist the top-button from his coat.

I'm not going to turn my back before the enemyI would disgrace my button if I did.'

He slipped off his jacket and vest and began to unfasten his collar-button as the train gained speed.

With one hand he was fingering a large brass button, which figured conspicuously in the centre of his small waistcoat, and this button was the subject of his theme.

Suppose I lost my button, do you know what I would do?' Nancy gazed at the young orator with a little awe.

Once more I re-entered the wardrobe and deliberately broke off the button which opened the secret door from within.

"It's warm in here," she said, taking off her jacket and opening the top two buttons of her tight blouse.

He placed his hand upon the back of a chair wherein was concealed an electric button, and next instant a little stout man in shabby black appeared as though by magic through a secret door hidden in the dark paneling of the audience chamberthe man who was his personal guard against the plots for his assassination.

"Colonel Espinasse," said he, "you are a villain, and I hope to live long enough to tear the buttons from your uniform.

You speak too late, Dear; it is my first fight, and I must do bravely, I must not look with partial eyes on any; I cannot spare a button of these Gentlemen; did life lie in their heel, Achilles like, I'd shoot my anger at those parts, and kill 'em.

117 Verbs to Use for the Word  buttoning