fastening

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In fact, there are few things in life I find more entertaining than watching a man in a Thor costume emerge from a toilet stall, refastening his breastplate, his Asgardian warhammer tucked beneath one arm.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2012

"Where are they?" she would say, running her white fingers over his head and daintily refastening the ribbon of that antiquated queue that made him always look the chevalier.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

Silently, swiftly, he unbuckled his belt, refastening it across the straps so as to hold canteen and haversack noiseless, and then, revolver in hand, began creeping down under cover of the low banks.

From Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier by Blumenschein, Ernest L.

After refastening our girths, we mounted and set out on the road to Egypt.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia

He proposed that the mother and daughter, after refastening the window and locking up, should retire to their beds, while the boys returned to the launch to make sure no harm befell it.

From The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Hughes, Burton Donnel