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Examples
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I got him a football and taught him how to do a button-hook and a square-out.
Getting It Wrong vic fortezza 2011
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I got him a football and taught him how to do a button-hook and a square-out.
Getting It Wrong vic fortezza 2011
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Bring your bite-guard that roll down into the Maury grade is second only to Christiansburg Mountain and the button-hook off Exit 118.
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“I could not get it on again without a button-hook,” said Lucien, flushing up.
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Soames replaced the button-hook on the lace and pink silk of the dressing-table coverlet.
In Chancery 2004
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Soames stroked his shoulder, and, taking up a silver button-hook, examined the mark on it.
In Chancery 2004
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Five minutes were allowed him, and then he came down with a large sandwich in one hand and a button-hook in the other, with which he was prepared to complete his toilet.
The Duke's Children 2004
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Why, bless my necktie, there isn't anything he can't invent; from a button-hook to a battleship!
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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She searched the room for a button-hook, and finding none, ran down to the kitchen.
Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times Amy Brooks
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Aubrey's pocket-knife, a paper-cutter, and a button-hook to eat with, and rather than to stop and wash out his shaving-cup we drank out of the bottles.
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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