Underneath the photograph of the lost shaft Hemmings was buttonholed by the Rev.
While the dead colonel was awaiting burial, one aspirant buttonholed the governor, asking: "Would you object to my taking the place of the colonel?
After dinner he buttonholed me on the front porch.
Hemphill was a particularly disagreeable figure in the outer office, for he always buttonholed one to listen to a tiresome anecdote.
As we passed into the living room, Mrs. Claybourne buttonholed me.
Bordenave had forbidden him the other, came and buttonholed the count in order to keep himself in countenance and offered at the same time to show him the dressing rooms.
And forthwith, in his delight at the meeting and with a sudden desire to be confidential, Fauchery buttonholed him and said in a low voice: "It's tomorrow.
A Maltese cross] A buttonholedbar is made by laying two or three threads and buttonholing over them (Figure 196).
Continue across till you reach the buttonholed edge around the linen square in the centre.
Start the first thread for the drawn work in the centre of one of the buttonholed corners.
Pass on to the next stitch and when the row is finished fasten in the second buttonholed side.
The little filling stitch I am going to suggest to you is so simple that really after you have buttonholed the handkerchief your task is almost completed.
The entire eyelet may be carried out in buttonholing or the lower half may be buttonholed and the top worked in the regular way.
An edge of buttonholed loops with a picot in the centre of each bar as described on Hardanger is also good.
Buttonholed loops] There are many pretty edges that can be used as finishes for work.
Fasten thread in the centre of one of the buttonholed sides.
As it was, he buttonholed another grimy stoker on his way to the forecastle and put his question again.
They buttonholed every arrival, volunteering all sorts of information in bad English.
A real betyár would never have dared to lift up his head here; but this fellow, metaphorically speaking, buttonholed everybody.
But you were not to put the pictures in until you had shown me the buttonholed edges.
When Concetta, who had begun to dress a golden-haired doll, saw what a pretty scrap-book Nellie was making on sheets of blue cambric with edges buttonholedin red, she immediately threw down her doll with a gesture of impatience.
He had buttonholed the Chief, and was gassing away--joy!
Well, this beast buttonholed me months ago, and began to spin a cuffer about Saxham.
This completes the picot, the bar is then buttonholed to the end.
This is repeated to and fro until there is a loop composed of three threads ready to be buttonholed over.
The pattern has to be specially planned with the idea of holding strongly together, but, if necessary, buttonholed bars can be added to form strengthening ties in any weak part.
I see nothing of your white-hatted and gardenia-buttonholed friend," said Ivor.
There were a good many persons there, and a foreign minister immediately buttonholed the Under-Secretary of State.
When Tomlin admitted him to the Hare and Hounds, he buttonholed the landlord, who, at that hour, was usually somewhat obfuscated.
One corner is turned under on the wrong side and buttonholed on the right side through both thicknesses of linen.
On the morning after the evening spent at Dupont Circle Judge Rutherford frankly buttonholed him in the lobby.
I suppose I ought to have stayed and buttonholed him in spite of himself," he thought, ruefully.
John had buttonholed old Devine; Jinny and Agnes were still lost in domesticities.
On his way to her Mahony ran into his brother-in-law, and John buttonholed him to discuss with him the prospects of the morrow.
The ground is of buttonholedbrides arranged into hexagons strongly suggestive of Point d'Argentan.
This lace may be distinguished from Alençon by the use of a single thread instead of a buttonholed stitch in the cordonnet as well as by the make and lay of the meshed ground, point de Venise à réseau.
In the former, they are made entirely of a strand or two of thread thrown across, and then buttonholed over, sometimes with tiny loops on the edges, and in Venetian lace often having minute stars worked upon them.
The fine lawn of which it is made is buttonholed round and then cut away.
The thread is then worked over with fine buttonhole stitches; the modes or fillings have a fine network of threads stretched across, afterwards being buttonholed into a variety of designs.
The weaving of the basket was a marvel of bands of buttonholed material, which stood out in appropriate thickness.
Each of these littlebuttonholed rings should be begun and finished off independently of the others.
The bases of the pyramids likewise consist of bars, buttonholed on both sides and edged on the inside with picots.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buttonholed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
