"Unbutton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the evening Dyukovsky returned. He was more excited than ever. His hands trembled so much that he could not unbutton his overcoat. His cheeks were burning. It was evident that he had not come back ...
— The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... one clear morn, She in the garb by village lasses worn; He, with unbutton'd frock that careless flew, And buskin'd to resist the morning dew; With downcast look she courtsied to the ground, Just in his path—no room to ...
— Wild Flowers - Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry • Robert Bloomfield
... not answer. He took a backward step and regarded her for a moment with a frown. Then he began to unbutton her blouse. ...
— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman
... odious vision came back again. First, it sounded in his ears like a kind of snorting such as is made by a threshing machine or the distant passage of a train over a bridge. Then he commenced to pant, to feel suffocated, and he had to unbutton his shirt-collar and his belt. He moved about to make his blood circulate, he tried to read, he attempted to sing. It was in vain. His thoughts, in spite of himself, went back to the day of the murder, and made him begin it all over again in all its most secret details, with all the violent ...
— The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) - Une Vie and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893
... They were ranged in monotonous rows on all sides of the church, above and below. They all had tiny old-fashioned panes of glass and were fastened with wooden buttons. It was the work of a minute to "unbutton" one of them and ...
— Three Young Knights • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... to a man she had a habit of playing with the buttons of his waistcoat. Saving one day some occasion to talk to the Chevalier Buveon, a Captain in the late Monsieur's Guard, and he being a very tall man, she could only reach his waistband, which she began to unbutton. The poor gentleman was quite horror-stricken, and started back, crying, "For Heaven's sake, madame, what are you going to do?" This accident caused a great laugh in the Salon of ...
— The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, Complete • Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans
... girl," he said, encouragingly, when Harrie had hushed a couple of children, and sat wearily down to unbutton her boots. ...
— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... I've half a mum-mind to do it. If you'd only unbutton yourself a little, and let me see what my backing is ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.—Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.—Off, off, you lendings!—Come, unbutton here. [Tears off ...
— The Tragedy of King Lear • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... said Angela. Jim began to unbutton his jacket. "Don't," she said sharply; "all the coats in ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell |
