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Examples

  • I got him a football and taught him how to do a button-hook and a square-out.

    Getting It Wrong vic fortezza 2011

  • I got him a football and taught him how to do a button-hook and a square-out.

    Getting It Wrong vic fortezza 2011

  • Bring your bite-guard that roll down into the Maury grade is second only to Christiansburg Mountain and the button-hook off Exit 118.

    Waldo Jaquith - On Amtrak. 2008

  • “I could not get it on again without a button-hook,” said Lucien, flushing up.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • Soames replaced the button-hook on the lace and pink silk of the dressing-table coverlet.

    In Chancery 2004

  • Soames stroked his shoulder, and, taking up a silver button-hook, examined the mark on it.

    In Chancery 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • She searched the room for a button-hook, and finding none, ran down to the kitchen.

    Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times Amy Brooks

  • 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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