"No, the pretty things aren't here," said the demi-god in buttons, caressingly.
One day she heard him imploring the little slavey to put some buttons on his shirts.
Michael realized that the image of God in nickel buttons was asking him how he had come there.
At length Michael sated himself with the mere sensual music of the voice of the man in buttons.
I have got a frock which I will bring with me as a present for Potsey; and I will make her sew on the buttons for herself.
The boys wore shoe-packs, blue flannel shirts with enormous pearl buttons, and mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow, and foxy brown.
She touched a bell that stood upon a table near by, and at once there came into the room a little boy doll, dressed in a brown suit with brass buttons.
For one thing Mrs. Pepper was very strict about--and that was, Polly should do nothing else till the buttons were all on again, and the boots buttoned up firm and snug.
And as he did so a thunderbolt struck his soul. A man, a heavy, ordinary man, with a composed indifferent face, and a prosaic sort of uniform, with a row of buttons, blocked his way.