Jordan stood and neatly buttoned his suit jacket.

Mr. Magnani sat across from the Mayor, in an expensive-looking three-piece suit, in a blue shirt neatly buttoned at the wrists, to make an impassioned plea about taxes.

It was buttoned neatly all the way to the loose, razor-reddened flesh of his neck, although he wore no tie.

She wore a floor-length orange housecoat, with white collar and cuffs, buttoned neatly and completely from throat to hem.

"All neatly buttoned up, eh?"

The sleeves would be rolled back down and the jacket neatly buttoned into place for her eleven o'clock meeting with a client, but for now it was just Kate and numbers.

The other, Nynaeve's age and with his gray coat neatly buttoned, was slender and dark of hair and eye.

It must have seemed like a classic locked-room mystery to Ailey Mason: a man with a brassiere wrapped murderously around his throat, and the only woman in the room has her blouse neatly buttoned and tucked into her skirt.

His bony jaws were reddened with scraping and the hair on his neck was clotted in wet spikes, most of the dust beaten from his coat, and the round neck of his shirt neatly buttoned to the collarbone.

He was wearing a powder-blue cardigan sweater buttoned neatly over a shirt and tie striped yellow and red.