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  • "My father had a set of cuff-buttons made of abalone shell," she said.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • His ample chest, which spread out a little lower in around and constantly enlarging stomach, was ornamented by a heavy-link gold chain, and his white cuffs had large gold cuff-buttons set with rubies of a very notable size.

    The Financier 2004

  • I presented him with a pair of cuff-buttons silver-enameled with the Bermuda lily, and I thought he seemed pleased with them.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Jory could not distinguish who the several big, cloaked figures were but he did notice two things -- they all carried swords hidden by their cloaks, and the sleeve of the arm that had paid off Yedy was dark velvety brown, with silver Obayyo police officer's cuff-buttons indicating the Imperial service

    The Saturn Game Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1981

  • The souvenirs given by the groom to the ushers usually take the form of scarf-pins or cuff-buttons.

    The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions Walter Cox Green

  • He sits at the head of the table and the best man opposite, and on this occasion he may give scarf-pins, link cuff-buttons -- or neckties and gloves, if he wishes -- to the best man and ushers.

    The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions Walter Cox Green

  • You, with your Socialists and your cuff-buttons, tryin 'to keep me from gettin' what I go after.

    32 Caliber Donald McGibeny

  • In spite of their mother's feeble attempts at authority, the little girls pulled at the ribbons on her cap, picked at her cuff-buttons, and one of them made a sudden snatch at her brooch, my cherished gift; the mother ran to the rescue, but not till the pin attached to the brooch was first bent, then broken.

    Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past

  • He sits at the head of the table and the best man opposite, and on this occasion he may give the scarf-pins or cuff-buttons, also neckties and gloves, if he wishes, to the best man and ushers.

    The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions Walter Cox Green

  • He also pays for the cuff-buttons or scarf-pins, and, if he wishes, for the gloves and neckties given to the ushers and the best man.

    The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions Walter Cox Green

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