collar-buttons

A note of yearning pathos comes into his agreeable voice, and he holds out a handful of the old-fashioned collar-buttons.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

Utterly he convinced himself that ladies not only use no collar-buttons, but also never pick them up and put them away among their own belongings.

Seventeen 1915

They have done harm in the world, and there have been collar-buttons that failed when the destinies of families hung upon them.

Seventeen 1915

There have been collar-buttons that bore last hopes, and, falling to the floor, never were found!

Seventeen 1915

Meanwhile, every day before our eyes, fate works on, employing for its instruments the infinitesimal, the ignoble and the petty -- in a word, collar-buttons.

Seventeen 1915

For decades, collar-buttons have been on the hand-me-down shelves of humor; it is a mistake in the catalogue.

Seventeen 1915

There have been collar-buttons that thwarted proper matings.

Seventeen 1915

I've got to put on my shirt and swear at my collar-buttons myself.

T. Tembarom 1913

Venders of fruit, shoe-strings, collar-buttons, and other light merchandise were scattered along the sidewalks and gutters, trying to earn a living by the sale of their wares, while beggars occasionally stopped the more fortunate members of society with pathetic importunities for money to buy bread.

Born Again Alfred Lawson 1911

Mona removed from her ears two tiny devices like collar-buttons.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908