A buttonhook is a hunchback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daring Fireball] Reference

"Bless my buttonhook!" cried Mr. Damon, who had gone with the lads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference

Removing her high-topped shoes without the aid of her buttonhook was nearly impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

“There is that,” Sophie agreed, doing up the back of the dress with a clever little buttonhook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clockwork Angel] Reference

When it became clear he needed to brace one hand around her ankle in order to wield the buttonhook, he did so doggedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

If the buttonhook could not be found she set out with her shoes unbuttoned, borrowing the necessary implement on the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Valley] Reference

He started working again, the buttonhook moving steadily up the front of her shin while his other hand cradled the calf of her leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

And it's going to make a big right hand turn, a big buttonhook, if you used to play sideline or flag football, and that is not going to affect anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2005] Reference

"Do you happen to have an old-fashioned buttonhook?" she asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Staircase]

Accordingly I took a buttonhook and tore all the adhesions loose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference

She ought to have noticed that the scissors and buttonhook were not hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher and Columbus] Reference

She put the baby down on the bed with a silver buttonhook and a bracelet, and sat down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Julia Page] Reference

He had come in for a lead-pencil and had bought, in addition, a stamp-box, a buttonhook, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book] Reference

His eyes reconcentrated themselves quickly on the buttonhook, and as if in apology James hurried on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

"Mr. Corey would never have let Grotch come up behind him with a buttonhook, let alone a spindle," Grid said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curtains for the editor]

Upon her return, she handed Nancy a long, silver-handled buttonhook inscribed with Mrs. Turn-bull's initials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Staircase]

After the sideline conference, Freeman tried a buttonhook to WR Micheal Spurlock but it was knocked away by CB Joe Haden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tampa Bay Buccaneers : News] Reference

After five minutes 'struggle he succeeded in fastening this with the aid of a buttonhook, and suddenly the thing he had feared was upon him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World] Reference

Johnny Knox for failing to break up Cutler's fourth quarter interception on a buttonhook route, they did think he could have reacted quicker after the interception and made the tackle.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

She tried to force the door open, but her silver buttonhook was an insufficient lever, and her tooth-brush handle broke when she pitted it in conflict against the heavy, old-fashioned lock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomplete Amorist] Reference

When they told her sharply that the scissors were very delicate and she was instantly to take them out of her hair, she tugged them out in a silence that was itself impertinent, and pinned up her pigtails with their buttonhook instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher and Columbus] Reference

She had regained her composure and was taking occasional furtive peeps at Mrs. Frank, now seated at the foot of the bed, busy with a buttonhook and the adjustment of a pair of very dainty boots of white kid, whose buttons gleamed like pearls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters] Reference

Why a souvenir buttonhook or a souvenir bootjack or a footstool, necktie, lap robe, or anything souvenir? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World] Reference

He held up a long buttonhook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decider]

He returned with a small buttonhook.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

The buttonhook dropped from her relaxed fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters] Reference

"Ain't swallowed a buttonhook, have you?" says I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy] Reference

Go out ten yards then buttonhook to the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Fact Zone] Reference

(1 / 7) buttonhook n.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double-Tongued Dictionary] Reference

A buttonhook or darning needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Two Children Did] Reference

You talk as if it was a buttonhook!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Jonathan Papers] Reference

"I didn't know it was your buttonhook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher and Columbus] Reference

"Towels, soap case, hairpins, buttonhook?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos] Reference