The buttony-things are the Mariner's suspenders, and you can see the knife close by them.
"Just So Stories"
Rudyard Kipling
His skin was sallow; his eyes were big, wide apart, of an untransparent buttony brilliancy, and in colour dully blue.
"Grey Roses"
Henry Harland
There is the weigelia that Dorothy has in front of this house; and forsythia-we forced its yellow blossoms last week, you know; and the flowering almond-that has whitey-pinky-buttony blossoms.
"Ethel Morton's Enterprise"
Mabell S.C. Smith