shirt-buttons

"Aht pipes, straighten up - orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away.

Fiancée 2010

She keeps the accounts, writes out the bills, superintends the linen, and sews on the general shirt-buttons.

Dr. Birch and his young friends 2006

The thing has taken such a hold of me that it not only goes round my head all day, but last week in a dream I gave a chap my shirt-buttons to differentiate, and he ran off with them.

Steve Steve and the Pirates and Philosophers of the Prairie - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Dillon nearly lost all his shirt-buttons getting the money-belt off.

Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992

Or else he'd end up like Wally over there, balding, fagging it, looking ten years older than his forty-five, shirt-buttons straining to hold back a phantom pregnancy nearing full term.

Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992

"Aht pipes, straighten up — orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

"Aht pipes, straighten up - orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

In reality we have our flies in the ointment -- nay, our shirt-buttons in the soup.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 Various

The chief of the flies is artillery, both our own and that of the people opposite; and the worst of the shirt-buttons is jam.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 Various

But not combs or shirt-buttons, thank you, nor any ribbons or lace -- is that good lace, Miss Livingstone?

The Path of a Star Sara Jeannette Duncan