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

Almost under the scaffold he saw the shine of precious stones and called to her as he picked up the pin, a bar pin splendidly set with diamonds.

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon

She was dressed in the style of twenty years before, with her linen collar inside the high collar of her dress, which was fastened with a bar pin, straight and plain like herself.

From Purple Springs by McClung, Nellie L.

"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