1 There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
2 It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our fender flicked a button on one man's coat.
3 At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
4 After another and a final squeeze with both arms, she got down from the cart and ran away; and, my belief is, and has always been, without a solitary button on her gown.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 5 'Suppose you had never seen me at all,' said Dora, going to another button.
6 As the boy read, he kept twisting and trying to tear off a button that was nearly off his jacket.
7 His mother had several times taken his hand from it, but the fat little hand went back to the button again.
8 His mother pulled the button off and put it in her pocket.
9 Then there was a laugh; a button and two nuts were found in the box.
10 "Oh, dear me, he's got a button unbuttoned," worried Erik, kneeling.
11 We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
12 No: he don't know what to make of the doubloon; he takes it for an old button off some king's trowsers.
13 "There's a button here, ole sport," said Master Freddie.
14 "Lights," commanded Master Freddie; and the butler pressed a button, and a flood of brilliant incandescence streamed from above, half-blinding Jurgis.
15 The butler had paused below but a few minutes to give orders, and then followed them; now he pressed a button, and the hall blazed with light.