He wore no ornaments, except ear-rings, a plain breastpin, and one or two rings on the fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It?] Reference
Wrapped in the little parcel was a breastpin worth at least two and one-half guilders, and ultramodern. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From The Secret Annex]
And Sally'll go crazy for a sight of her breastpin!. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Raised] Reference
There is a breastpin like a breastplate, and a necklace like. From Wordnik.com. [A Fair Barbarian] Reference
He has had it, just as it was found, converted into a breastpin. From Wordnik.com. [The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources] Reference
He wore a jewelled breastpin and a heavy gold fob-chain and seal. From Wordnik.com. [Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi] Reference
Madam Delia, however, wore a new breastpin and gave Gerty another. From Wordnik.com. [Oldport Days] Reference
Then there was no feather in her hat, and no breastpin at her throat. From Wordnik.com. [Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's] Reference
The result was that I lost all my rings and a breastpin down the wastepipe. From Wordnik.com. [Wondermark] Reference
A small gold pencil-case, a gold breastpin, and a pair of small gold earrings. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference
Then Sally was elevated to the seventh heaven by the gift of the coral breastpin. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Raised] Reference
Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady from the Sea] Reference
I never had a real gold chain, or even a real gold breastpin, in my life -- or a ring. From Wordnik.com. [Life at High Tide] Reference
A silver watch guard; a small brooch, a breastpin, and a ring. -- 12 pairs of garters. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference
Peyton pearls must be taken from the strong box -- a necklace, earrings, breastpin and tiara. From Wordnik.com. [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference
"Why, no, not unless it is a breastpin or a scarf-pin and you wilfully throw it to the fishes.". From Wordnik.com. [Three Little Cousins] Reference
Mrs. Budlong rested all her chins upon her cameo breastpin and received the explanation coldly. From Wordnik.com. [The Dude Wrangler] Reference
He's goin 'plumb daft lookin' night and day fur that man that got his thirty dollars and his breastpin. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
And, by the way, bring with you that sweet breastpin I saw you wear at Mrs. May's last Thursday evening. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper] Reference
He went straight to town and bought Mandy a red silk dress and a brass breastpin, when she had no shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
He was dressed both showily and shabbily, and a great breastpin was like a blotch upon his rumpled shirt-bosom. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
It seemed in her dream that there was something at the bottom that she wanted -- a breastpin or a piece of money. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
"He never said it was anywhere; he only said he had a coral breastpin in it for Sally," put in the literal Hannah. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Raised] Reference
He bent down to look closer at the ornament; it was a round breastpin of onyx and pearl set in a heavy rim of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Lahoma] Reference
An excessively coloured man in a rasping white shirt and brand-new slops, a shining hat, and a breastpin, turned round. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Handicap] Reference
As they passed out she stepped hastily back, and unclasping a rosebud from her breastpin laid it on the table beside me. From Wordnik.com. [A Day of Fate] Reference
He had placed in the little box with the breastpin a piece of paper on which he had given expression to his feelings in verse. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
"That fat sister in the cameo breastpin -- she swiped a can of potted chicken on me yesterday -- she's a regular 'camp-robber'.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dude Wrangler] Reference
Once I just borrowed a breastpin of hers out of her drawer, to wear to a party; and she saw me with it on, and said I had stolen it. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper] Reference
As soon as she had put away her breastpin, the Crab King started to dig in the sand and pretty soon he brought up two lovely pearls. From Wordnik.com. [The Iceberg Express] Reference
Then by and by she remembered how Miss Louise Parlin had lost a breastpin in a very singular manner, and both the ladies wondered if. From Wordnik.com. [Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's] Reference
And if he can do such gold-leaf, kid-glove, diamond-breastpin piloting when he is sound asleep, what COULDN'T he do if he was dead! '. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
Around her throat there was a lace collar of some common sort, held by a breastpin of enormous value if calculated by the square inch. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference
One of the girls says she wears a trilobite for a breastpin; some horrid old stone, I believe that is, that was a bug ever so long ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian Angel] Reference
Then, exciting moment, came linen collars for some and neckties and bows for others, -- a magnificent green glass breastpin was sewed into. From Wordnik.com. [The Birds' Christmas Carol] Reference
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