best-buttoned

Updated: May 20, 2025

Although the Chinese astronomers may have recognized the aerial machine as the moving body that had given rise to such disputes, it was to the Celestial million, from the humblest tankader to the best-buttoned mandarin, an apocalyptical monster appearing in the sky of Buddha. The crew of the "Albatross" troubled themselves very little about these demonstrations.

Jules Verne - Robur the Conqueror