Literary usage of Buttonholer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr ... Recollections and Correspondence by Henry Hallam Parr, Sir Charles Fortescue Brickdale (1917)
"... buttonholer (he that runs over his chases in his easy-chair) should, I would
submit, be viewed with distinct favour by a long-suffering public as being ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"... for, provided you are a ' safe' man, and to be relied on not to give anyone
away, the ' buttonholer' is a marvellous instrument for enlarging your mind, ..."
3. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1893)
"... 5s ; gen. hand (male), 4s ; gen. hand (female), 2s Gd ; feller, 2s; buttonholer,
3t Gd ; apprentice, 9s per week (thirteen hands in all). ..."
4. East London by Walter Besant (1901)
"closer, the fitter, the machinist, the buttonholer, the table hand, the sole
maker, the finisher, ..."
5. Convention by Convention, New York Press Association (1903)
"In connection with the above, it is well to have a plausible " buttonholer," who
can interest progressive people without exaggeration. ..."
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