Read full poem →Close to the best known author Umbra sits,
The constant index to old Button's wits,
'Who's here?' cries Umbra: 'Only Johnson.'[86]--'Oh!
Dictionary Entry
One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
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Origin
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Common Phrases
. buttonbutton mousebutton okbutton radiobutton startbutton commandbutton close
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Poetry examples for “button”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Some few short years--no more;
Even Button's Wits to worms shall turn,
Who maggots were before.
Read full poem →when my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
Read full poem →And stopped and grinned at me over the wall,
With a cowslip bunch in his button-hole
And one in his cap. Who could say if his roll
Read full poem →Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad na gie a button for her!
Read full poem →Bible," now abroad; the Rev. Dr. Farwell, a member
of several Committees and Boards ; Dr. Button, whose
name we will spell, if we have occasion to use it, with
Read full poem →A thing that had never been heard of before.
"For the stigma of gluttony, I care not a button!" he
Cried, and ate all he could swallow—and more.
Read full poem →judges, and if they are not inclined to condemn him, he is in little care
about the highflyers at Button’s.”
Read full poem →Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright splendid shroud of your son,