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Green has come to stay with us again; she has been lying outside in the canvas chair for seven hours and feels the better for it. The children are very attached to their mother, and one and another visit her during the day. Her mother's eye at once detects a button off or whatever is amiss. The services were well attended to-day, only five persons being absent morning and afternoon.
Epaulettes were not used by any, and the anchor button, with the tint that is called navy blue, and which is meant to represent the deep hue of the ocean, with white facings, composed the principal peculiarities of the dress.
In the manufacture of baju buttons they first make the lower part flat, and, having a mould formed of a piece of buffalo's horn, indented to several sizes, each like one half of a bullet mould, they lay their work over one of these holes, and with a horn punch they press it into the form of the button. After this they complete the upper part.
"I do not believe there is the danger that you imagined in the first moment of alarm." "It was natural." "Very natural, I admit, but reflection must show how little foundation there is for it. The button has not the name of the tailor who furnished it?" "No, but it has the initials and the mark of the manufacturer; an A and a P, with a crown and a cock." "Well!
“The Merrimac’s steering-gear broke as she got to Estrella Point. Only three of the torpedoes on her side exploded when I touched the button. A huge submarine mine caught her full amidships, hurling the water high in the air, and tearing a great rent in her side. “Her stern ran upon Estrella Point. Chiefly owing to the work done by the mine, she began to sink slowly.
Gordon's leg ached from his strained position, but he shifted his weight onto it more heavily, and sweat popped out on the croupier's face. His eyes darted down, to where the full weight of Gordon seemed to rest on the heel that was grinding into his instep. He tried to pull his foot off the button that was concealed in the floor. The heel ground harder, bringing a groan from him.
The clergyman was one of those odd types that oscillate between remote country towns in England and the conduct of English Church services on mutual terms in enterprising hotels abroad, a tremulous, obstinate little being with sporadic hairs upon his face, spectacles, a red button nose, and aged black raiment.
The shining collar itself fastened with a button which, if not gold at least had the appearance of the precious metal, was evidence that he was bound upon an important mission and when he arrived at Doctor Wells' house and rang the door bell his fearsome features wore such a murderous expression that the maid who came in answer to his summons was startled. "What do you want?" she asked.
'No, you are quite right there. 'Well, oblige me by pressing that electric button. Holmes did so with much eagerness, but, although the trio waited some minutes in silence, there was no response. 'I deduct from that, said Doyle, 'that the servants have gone to bed.
Sit down and sew that button on as if you were doing it for your own son. No pretending, mind you. Sew it on as if " He hesitated a minute and got a first-class inspiration. "Sew it on as if it was a button on your husband's coat that you told me about. Every two or three stitches look up to show us how happy you are. When you get it sewed, take the coat up this way and hug it.
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