while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons each at the musketeer (which everyone knows is the opening at the wrist), there are, indeed, eighteen buttons on each in length. That button is a standard of measurement of approximately one inch. The approximate part is because it is a French standard of measurement.
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And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.
Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere – buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid. There was the cold-bath button. There was the button that produced literature. And there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world.
"I see you're looking at my cuff buttons."
I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
עשרים ושבע עצמות,
שלשים וחמישה שרירים
יש בכל כרית של אצבעותינו החמש.
הרי זה די והותר,
כדי לכתוב את ״מיין קאמף״
או את ״פו הדב״.
They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word <i>undone</i>. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.
There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it’s what we do with them that’s important
Losing one glove is certainly painful,
but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other,
and finding the first one again.
Your hands already know too much.
To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely like the Texas Longhorns logo.
Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with great beards - look as grave as you will - I'll make merry work with my button-holes - I shall have 'em all to myself - 'tis a maiden subject - I shall run foul of no man's wisdom or fine sayings in it.
A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.
And how easily a hand becomes a fist.
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