Careful Words

button (n.)

button (v.)

button (adv.)

button (adj.)

  He did not care a button for it.

Martin Luther (1483-1546): Works. Book ii. Chap. xvi.

On fortune's cap we are not the very button.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Let me take you a button-hole lower.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.