bar pin

Example Sentences

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Then she went to get a gold bar pin for her dress front, to make the neck higher, and I went out to the porch for a drink of well water.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"To this day ma believes that five-hundred-dollar bar pin I brought her two years ago from Pittsburgh cost fifty at auction."

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie

Finally it purchased a silver bangle a little larger than a ten-cent piece, had it hung from a bar pin, and inscribed "First Prize."

From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth

Then it flew up on to the dressing-table, seized a small gold bar pin in its beak, and flew back into the ventilator pipe.

From The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories by Carter, Nicholas

Well, this morning I'm back for a bar pin of Baxter's I'd lost, and there he is again, no overcoat, shivering his teeth loose, and all in.

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon