There stood a large picture--the portraits of the two, and in the bridegroom's buttonhole was painted a thistle.
The young people amused themselves on the lawn, playing croquet and flitting about among the flowers, each young girl gathering a flower to put in the buttonhole of some one of the gentlemen.
If presently we learn that by order of the All-Highest every buttonhole in Brussels is sewn up, it will hardly be matter for surprise.
A scrap of paper is not the only strange but meaning device which has adorned the citizen's buttonhole in Brussels.
Their feelings may be imagined when, on the morning of that significant anniversary, they were greeted by the sight of a careless torn "scrap of paper" thrust negligently through the buttonhole of every Bruxellois.
Even the recently popular home zigzag machine, an outgrowth of the buttonhole machine, was in commercial use by the 1870s.
This hole is located immediately below the button being centered seven-eighths of an inch below the button on the shirt, and similarly seven-eighths of an inch below the buttonhole on the opposite side.
Actually, it is a hole through both the button line of the shirt and the buttonhole line which overlap down the front of the shirt when it is buttoned.
In each instance for these holes, the one through the button line and the one through the buttonhole line, the hole amounts to a ragged slit approximately one-half inch in height.
I will wager a pair of gloves against a buttonhole bouquet with you that she doesn’t land him.
Laughing, he plucked a red, red rose from his buttonhole and jammed it carelessly in his pocket.
This new one, after all, she put into his buttonhole with her own hands, while he held her great bunch of them.
Sharlee put the flag in his buttonhole under her mother's watchful gaze.
They were made into little buttonhole posies, and, as Parkinson says, "worn abroad by curious lovers of these delights.
With (P) buttonhole around the eyelets in border at hem, sleeves and collar.
Keeping continuity of pattern and working a buttonholein Garter st.
Working buttonhole as for Right Front, continue even in pattern until work from beginning measures approx.
Keeping continuity of pattern continue to correspond to Right Front, omitting buttonholeand being careful to have all shapings for opposite side.
I only want a buttonhole sewed up; wouldn't the goddess allow that?
He stood there awkward and sheepish, while the corner of his napkin slowly glided from his buttonhole into his soup plate.
Passed me a note saying that you had the buttonhole when you left the Cecil.
Now, I say again, trust me, believe in me; do not think of taking me into your family until you have the ribbon in your buttonhole on the morrow of the day when you take your seat in the Chamber.
A long needleful of the same cotton or silk used for the tatting is left at the beginning of the work, and a common needle used to buttonhole over bars wherever they occur.
In many patterns a needle is used to work over, in buttonhole stitch, the thread which passes from one loop to another.
Worse than that, perhaps, we find that one of them has a buttonhole torn out at the neck.
The buttons were there," the amateur detective answered gravely, "but the buttonhole next the top one was torn through.
He wore a bit of scarlet geranium in the buttonhole of his new light overcoat; he flourished a new walking-stick and new grey gloves.
All in all, nothing except the expression of Noble's face and the somewhat ill-chosen pansy in his buttonhole hinted of the remarkable.
It was taken, it was held to Italo's lips while he made one of those deep bows that bent him double; then the stem of the rose was pulled through his buttonhole and secured with a pin from Aurora's dress.
With a rapid gesture he tore the decoration from his buttonhole and throwing it in the fire exclaimed: "That is what a decoration is worth which is given by a scoundrel of your order.
Suddenly she drew a long hair out of the buttonhole and began to laugh.
She had taken Mrs. Carder the flowers last night, and Rufus had put some tiny blooms in his buttonhole and caressed them at supper-time with significant glances at her.
You'd better have one more buttonhole bouquet, don't you think?
He will buttonhole you with his forefinger, and with an idiotic smile on his face say.
Probably one of the nicest old meal-tickets in the world," she added, confidentially addressing the top buttonhole of his sweater.
We are to meet at the ferry, and I'm to wear a primrose in my buttonhole in case he's forgotten how I look.
At the most the people of Brussels had intended to wear in the buttonhole a little "scrap of paper.
The little celluloid portraits of the King and Queen which one wears in the buttonhole serve the same purposes.
She wearily picked up a little gown, cut a buttonhole at the throat, and proceeded to work it.
I've yet all these sleeves to set, and stitch in, and the fronts to finish off; and a buttonhole to work in each neckband.
He wore a pink in his buttonhole and his hair was scalloped up off his forehead in what is known as the lion tamer's roach.
I then told him I feared there was some mistake, as no buttonhole bouquets had been ordered, but he insisted on his former declaration, and so I brought them away and sent them to their respective destinations.
Let me tell you how it is,' said the stranger, inserting his forefinger in the reporter's buttonhole and badly damaging his chrysanthemum.
