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"Well?" resumed his vigorous aunt, walking on with him, while Clare and Adrian followed. "I really never saw you looking so handsome. There's something about your face look at me you needn't blush. You've grown to an Apollo. That blue buttoned-up frock coat becomes you admirably and those gloves, and that easy neck-tie. Your style is irreproachable, quite a style of your own!
On this more and more frequented road, the masculine element displayed different costumes, according to the age and tastes of each rider. The young men appeared in careless array: leggins, short coats, and small caps. The older men, faithful to early traditions, wore long trousers, buttoned-up redingotes, and tall hats, like those worn by their fathers, as shown in the pictures by Alfred de Dreux.
Mr Tite Barnacle never would have passed for half his current value, unless his coat had been always buttoned-up to his white cravat. 'May I ask, said Lord Decimus, 'if Mr Darrit or Dorrit has any family? Nobody else replying, the host said, 'He has two daughters, my lord. 'Oh! you are acquainted with him? asked Lord Decimus. 'Mrs Merdle is. Mr Sparkler is, too.
Prosperous old gentlemen pacing home, rotund in their buttoned-up coats, had clear drops at the end of their noses. Sometimes they stopped their trousers legs flapping behind them and trumpeted loudly into red silk handkerchiefs. Young Gourlay had fled the streets. It was the kind of night that made him cower.
It was Doctor Torvey who entered the old still-room now, buttoned-up to the chin in his greatcoat, and with a muffler of many colours wrapped partly over that feature. "Well! hey? So poor Feltram's had an accident?" The Doctor was addressing Sir Bale, and getting to the bedside as he pulled off his gloves.
Whether or not some joy at the incident of the previous night had served to rejuvenate my uncle, I know not, but he looked to me ten years younger when Lady Ellinor entered. How carefully the buttoned-up coat was brushed; how new and glossy was the black stock!
Mary found herself for the moment in a world where bodies were in the habit of being despatched by all sorts of conveyances to all sorts of places. And at the funeral two young men in buttoned-up uniforms stood beside the grave and spoke to her afterwards. 'You're Miss Postgate, aren't you? said one. 'Fowler told me about you. He was a good chap a first-class fellow a great loss.
So might an industrious fox or bear make up his account of chickens or stray travellers with an eye to his cubs, not to disparage by that word the three raw-visaged, lank, and buttoned-up maidens who dwell with the parent Vholes in an earthy cottage situated in a damp garden at Kennington.
A cold breath of air hung about him as he went backward and forward from the cart with buttoned-up cloak, and he stamped as loudly on the sharp cobble-stones as though his boot-soles too were made of stone. Then they went on to Due's cottage; Lasse was anxious to see how matters were prospering there. "It isn't always easy when one of the parties brings a love-child into the business."
One of the people whom he disliked most said that he was "a buttoned-up man," and Richard Dryce could never forgive him the description was so true.
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