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

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

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

The salesman, who wore blue-and-white-striped soft collars with a bar pin across the front, does not even enter the story.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

The result was a dress pattern of soft black silk, brocaded with a small leafy design, a graceful lace-edged, muslin fichu, and an onyx bar pin upon which three butterflies were outlined by tiny pearls.

From People of the Whirlpool by Wright, Mabel Osgood