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• I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
• Rather should it be said that these ladies wore dress of military style, since there was nothing uniform about their outfits, one being in powder-blue with silver buttons and a forage-cap, the other in tan with gold buttons and the dinkiest of red-peaked kepis.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 88:

• Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.

• Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.

• The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.

• O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,c. 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen, act 3, scene 1, lines 4–6:

• Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the "button" at the stem end or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit.1969, Federal Register, volume 34, numbers 125-134, page 11315:

• In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.1984, Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada, page 42:
• The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway.1999, Les Morrison, Of Luck and War, page 69:

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• Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens, waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration, radioactive perfumes for the fashionably, for the terminally, insane.1984, “Fugazi”, in Fish (lyrics), Fugazi, performed by Marillion:
• It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:

• 'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.'1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
• As to that I did not care a button, but I had wanted to hear about Betty, and now her name was barely mentioned.1922, Van Tassel Sutphen, In Jeopardy:

• One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye. TONY: Bye.2006, David Kukoff, Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers, page 77:

• Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button. End your script with a twist!2002 November 8, Jean Ann Wright, “Animation Comedy and Gag Writing”, in Animation World Network:
• With our show, one thing we wanted to do was give our best effort to always put a button on the scene.2014 June 18, Daniel Schindel, “3 Comedy Sketches that Changed Key and Peele's Lives”, in Los Angeles Magazine:

• FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)

• Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had "blank rattles and a button". But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the true button and additional rattles having been lost.1936, Laurence Monroe Klauber, A Statistical Study of the Rattlesnakes, page 26: