hook and eye

Example Sentences

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Not only have I examined the various materials for stains, but I've tested each hook and eye and button and pin.

From The Film Mystery by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Good-bye!' said he, feeling for the unfastened hook and eye on his coat.

From The Cossacks by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I can get them fer her easy enough; the twins have been helping her some, one with a sinker and the other with a hook and eye.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

—They're only in the hook and eye department, Myles Crawford said.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

She always had hooks off her dress, or a hook and eye put together that did not mate, or her dress was broken from its gathers.

From Cricket at the Seashore by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt