"Button up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that going uphill one wants to peel to the minimum; sitting on top of a mountain or ridge in a wind, one wants to pile on everything one possesses, and going downhill one wants a medium amount, all of which will button up so that the snow cannot penetrate inside. Ordinary country clothes will usually suffice for the first season, especially if they are of smooth material which will shake ...
— Ski-running • Katharine Symonds Furse
... that by your own self you can have it for two dollars," he said, pocketing the crumpled bill. "I don't button up nothing for nobody." ...
— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass
... as it may, I had but a doleful walk of it; moreover, I was fain to button up my coat and pull my collar close about my neck, by reason of the cutting wind which blew across from the German seas. Nor did I meet any adventure on the way, but in avoiding the turnpike at Broxall I was forced to leap a ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward |
