| 单词 | buttonhook |
| 例句 | My frantic search uncovered a plethora of random objects—clothing, shoe brushes, buttonhooks, photographs of wives and sweethearts, tins of wax and pastes—things that seemed so ordinary, so human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Pinned with numbers from the Giulia's manifest, they’d filed past a line of health inspectors who’d looked in their eyes and ears, rubbed their scalps, and flipped their eyelids inside out with buttonhooks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I drove the thoughts from my head and ripped at the shoe buttons with the buttonhook, yanking so savagely that one of the abalone rounds snapped free and rolled under the cot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sam Houston gave me a buttonhook, and Lamar gave me a pincushion shaped like a fat red tomato. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Setting down my buttonhook, I rose to my feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Some are emblazoned with catchy brand names like Presto, U-Neek and Pullezi, and their resourceful attachments include saws, hatchets, chisels and buttonhooks. 5 Books to Take a Deep Dive Into Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Early photographs from Ellis Island show health inspectors using buttonhooks to flip over immigrants’ eyelids, looking for the telltale white pustules. Now in Sight: Success Against an Infection That Blinds 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Ivory, at the time, was used for all manner of things, from buttonhooks to boxes, piano keys to combs. A Brief History of Plastic's Conquest of the World 2011-05-29T14:15:02.467Z "I said some good tugs would get us in, sir," he replied, raising his voice, and pulling paper out of the lock with a buttonhook. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z One, patterning after her idol, sought success in a stage career, beginning to "act" before a mirror, with a kitchen apron for a train and a buttonhook for a dagger. Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott "If I had a buttonhook and a piece of string," he said, turning to Mrs. Baird, "I could demonstrate what I mean." Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School Gas was administered with a bicycle pump, and a shoehorn and buttonhook were employed in place of the ordinary instruments of torture; but Excalibur did not mind. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman After five minutes' struggle he succeeded in fastening this with the aid of a buttonhook, and suddenly the thing he had feared was upon him. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World He had come in for a lead-pencil and had bought, in addition, a stamp-box, a buttonhook, and a plated silver photograph frame, not one of which newly acquired treasures he had the slightest use for. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book You talk as if it was a buttonhook!” More Jonathan Papers If the buttonhook could not be found she set out with her shoes unbuttoned, borrowing the necessary implement on the way. Green Valley There was a fascinating hole on top of his head, thus making it possible to secrete things like medicine or food until they were fished out with a buttonhook or darning needle. What Two Children Did She ought to have noticed that the scissors and buttonhook were not hers. Christopher and Columbus Accordingly I took a buttonhook and tore all the adhesions loose. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Drawing a small buttonhook that he always carried from his pocket, he inserted it in the keyhole. The Boy Allies on the Firing Line Or, Twelve Days Battle Along the Marne And such things as buttonhooks and hairpins had a way of disappearing just when she was in the greatest hurry. Green Valley One young man made silver buttonhooks and a young lady sold them. Russell H. Conwell A hundred times in my boyhood days had I picked locks with a buttonhook. At the Earth's Core She tried to force the door open, but her silver buttonhook was an insufficient lever, and her tooth-brush handle broke when she pitted it in conflict against the heavy, old-fashioned lock. The Incomplete Amorist I want to tell you—' 'Mother, can I have your long buttonhook?' Tenterhooks "There you are!" exclaimed Aunt Lu, as she buttoned Bunny's shoe on him again, using a hairpin for a buttonhook. Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue She put the baby down on the bed with a silver buttonhook and a bracelet, and sat down. The Story of Julia Page "Bless my buttonhook!" cried Mr. Damon, who had gone with the lads. Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record Here Archie came to the door and said, 'Mother, can I have your long buttonhook?' Tenterhooks |
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