button-holes

I have written a couple of letters to the Irish papers on the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland, but they have been very short, for I do not find that I have much to say upon such matters.1 Kings and Queens come and go, and men wear emblems in their button-holes and cannons fire; and we all grow excited, and forget how little meaning there is in the cheers that such things buy.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

A lot of things that experts are making a big deal out of now-a-days, such as pin-tucks, ruffles, zippers, button-holes, or collars, are more easily learned from these sewing patterns.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

Many wore the silver fleur-delys suspended from the white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from button-holes in the year 1817.

Les Miserables 2008

A lot of things that experts are making a big deal out of now-a-days, such as pin-tucks, ruffles, zippers, button-holes, or collars, are more easily learned from these sewing patterns.

A Few Opportunities at Home 2006

Here is a chance to draw upon my decades of rumination about fabric, lapels, desired number and depth of vents, if any, and other vital concerns that have been on my mind since the tenth grade, when a classmate showed me the functioning button-holes on his sports jacket, a hand-me-down from his natty dad.

Alfred Gingold: My Birthday Suit 2008

They will spend whole days at a stretch, smoking a cigar that has gone out, and enter a drawing-room with the buttons on their garments not in every case formally wedded to the button-holes.

The Magic Skin 2007

Henriquinquiste party, wore gloves perpetually, for fear (they said) that they should be obliged to shake hands with the best of kings; while the republicans adopted coats without button-holes, lest they should be forced to hang red ribbons in them.

The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

When he was seen coming out of church with the straps of his breeches tied into the button-holes, devout women would redeem the buckles from the clock-maker and jeweler of the town and return them to their pastor with a lecture.

Ursula 2006

There were a good many people about, and those near paused and looked at her transit, in the full stroke of the level October sun, which went under the brims of their hats, and pierced through their button-holes.

A Changed Man 2006

Henriquinquiste party, wore gloves perpetually, for fear (they said) that they should be obliged to shake hands with the best of kings; while the republicans adopted coats without button-holes, lest they should be forced to hang red ribbons in them.

Burlesques 2006