You talk as if it was a buttonhook!
"More Jonathan Papers"
Elisabeth Woodbridge
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.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
"I didn't know it was your buttonhook.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim