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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Youse can put de candle on de floor, if youse like," she said grudgingly. "Dat's de only chair dere is." "Thank you!" he said. Rhoda Gray watched him with puckered brow, as he placed the gin bottle with its candle on the floor, and appropriated the chair. He might, from his tone, have been thanking her for some priceless boon. He wore a boutonniere. His clothes fitted him like gloves.
With his inevitable top-hat, his heavy eye-glasses cord, his military moustaches and upward pointing beard, his pouter-pigeon carriage, his glowing spats and his boutonniere, his aroma of distinction, and his ruddy consciousness of his prestige, he is our great tour-de-force as a figure in the artistic scene. He is here, naturally, now the target of popular interest.
"Don't say guess," said Jolnes, with a touch of pride in his air; "there is no such word in the lexicon of ratiocination. In Major Ellison's buttonhole there was a carnation and a rosebud backed by a geranium leaf. No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere. Close your eyes, Whatsup, and give the logic of your imagination a chance.
At Piccadilly Circus he bought a boutonniere, and as he was feeling slightly rocky after a late night at card-playing, he dropped into the St. James. He emerged shortly, fortified by a brandy-and-soda, and sauntered westward along the Piccadilly pavement.
"Quel mauvais signe!" muttered the driver, as he put on his much paraffined silk hat, settled his wedding boutonnière in its place, and drove on at a trot. Mary looked up at Vanno without speaking, but her eyes, saddened by the sorrow of others, asked a question. "'In the midst of life!" Vanno quoted. "But it is not a bad sign for us or for any one.
The usual hour for dinner-parties in America is seven o'clock; but whatever the hour, the guests should take care to be punctual to the minute. In the hall the gentleman should find a card with his name, and that of the lady whom he is to take in, written on it, and also a small boutonniere, which he places in his button-hole.
Her appeal to her worshippers would be doubled. When he returned to the theatre a throng of people filled the entrance-way, and he was emboldened to pass in even bowed to the attendants and to Hugh, who stood in the lobby, in shining raiment, a boutonnière in his coat, his face radiating confidence and pride. "We've got 'em coming," he announced, with glee.
The first boutonniere of my life from the bush that became my confidant through all those wondrous years before they packed my trunk and sent me off to college!
The excessively tall and the excessively short Germans who talked into one another's teeth; the young person who sang coon songs in a fashion not negro, but all her own; the giant with a boutonniere which a midget mounted a step-ladder to spray; the famous plump beauty whom Shelby whispered she resembled all the merry-andrew company won her laughter and applause.
Wayne to the climax of her just violence when his manner suddenly completely changed, and he said with the utmost good temper: "And what do you think of my get-up, Mrs. Wayne? It's a new suit I have on, and a boutonniere." The change was so sudden that no one answered, and he went on, "It's clothes almost fit for a wedding that I'm wearing." Mrs. Wayne understood him in a flash.
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