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Updated: May 9, 2025
He found me one day in the outskirts of the village, in a secluded place, hot and private, where the taro-pits are deep and the plants high. Here he buttonholed me, and, looking about him like a conspirator, inquired if I had gin. I told him I had.
In the meantime Lancaster had buttonholed Doe. "You used to be a great cricketer, usedn't you?" "When I was a boy, Honion," said Doe. "And you've slacked abominably." "Thou sayest so, Honion." "Well, my son, the last place in the Team is vacant. You should be too good for the Second. Practise like fury, and the situation's yours."
Her doll, forgotten, lay across a corner of the table, in limp abandon, the buttonholed eyes staring nowhere. Grandsir spoke wheezingly: "We're keepin' house, 'Melia an' me. We thought we'd crack us a few nuts. Help yourself, Hetty." 'Melia lifted her bowl with two fat hands, and held it out, tiltingly. Her round blue eyes shone in a painstaking hospitality. She was a good little 'Melia.
All his movements, whether he lolled back on a chair, or leaned his elbows on the table, or chucked his cap in a corner betyár tricks every one of them was proof positive that he must have been brought up in good circles. A real betyár would never have dared to lift up his head here; but this fellow, metaphorically speaking, buttonholed everybody.
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. Another kind of cut work is that known as broderie anglaise, and sometimes as Madeira work, over which our grandmothers spent much time, perhaps without adequate result.
She buttonholed him as he was limping out quickly with a glass of lemonade for a young lady and asked him was it true. Yes, it was true. "But, of course, that doesn't alter the contract," she said. "The contract was for four concerts." Mr. Holohan seemed to be in a hurry; he advised her to speak to Mr. Fitzpatrick. Mrs. Kearney was now beginning to be alarmed. She called Mr.
She had committed an infamous breach of trust. An overwhelming desire came over her to tell him everything. She took a quick step forward and found herself face to face with Somerfield. The Prince was buttonholed by some friends and led away. The moment had passed. "Come and talk to the Duchess," Somerfield said. "She has something delightful to propose."
The judge now observed that Roger had buttonholed a reporter, who had been dashing off hieroglyphics that meant a spicy paragraph the following day.
But you must keep it quiet," with a sidewise nod that pledged Smithers to honorable secrecy. Had Gilmartin met Sharpe face to face, he would not have known who was before him. Shortly after he left Smithers he buttonholed another acquaintance, a young man who thought he knew Wall Street, and therefore had a hobby manipulation.
The faithfully reproduced atmosphere of Barnesville had almost a literary colour. Occasionally, though not frequently, he encouraged delineation of Jenny and Tom Scott and Thacker and "the boys." He had even inhaled at a distance vague whiffs of Sophronia's waffles. On the morning after the evening spent at Dupont Circle Judge Rutherford frankly buttonholed him in the lobby.
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