My hand shook as I pushed a hatpin through my cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweetapple Cove] Reference

Miss Snark always carries a hatpin for straitjackets.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOM 46-100 with comments] Reference

I put my foot firmly on the weapon-a long, sharp hatpin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Pharaohs]

A hatpin, he thought, she had a hatpin in the work basket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Prey]

Quick, like somebody had stabbed me with a hatpin, but deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

I'll bet a hundred to a bent hatpin Quillan knew before the race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Then she walked to her dressing-table and picked up a long hatpin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference

I'd lay a fiver to a bent hatpin they know more than they're telling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Then again, Santorum isn't the sharpest hatpin in the box, so who knows?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PA-SEN: Columnist Charges Santorum's Polka Ad Is A Fraud] Reference

"Well, one of you was mad enough to use something like a hatpin to stab him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder by Six]

So I took out my hatpin and showed it to him and said: ‘Condense yourself!’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Words] Reference

The jeweller had wanted Mrs. Callcott to have it mounted in a brooch or a hatpin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

Right before his head was cut off and Clodia stuck her hatpin through his tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Missing Faction] Reference

I am not YET sold on the Pretties Hardware Kit... dyeable flowers and hatpin pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

I lost my hat, my gold hatpin, every hairpin, and brown locks flew out two feet behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference

Her collection of antique hatpin holders -- she had hundreds of them -- was kept spotless.    From Wordnik.com.  [One For The Table: Maybe It's in the DNA] Reference

A pearl-headed hatpin protruded from his chest; a small bull's eye of blood stained his shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder by Six]

Each guest is provided with a hatpin, and when the word is given all begin jabbing for peanuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference

But Clara talking, Clara telling a slender tale of a hatpin and an inebriated man and herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Side of Paradise] Reference

It's one thing in a ~, bowing and jumping around and screaming like there's a hatpin in your colon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

At any rate, he reacts like he's been stuck in the backside with a hatpin, jumping about and causing a scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [lost dogs] Reference

And yes, I know about hatpin pain from experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tucson Citizen] Reference

His implement at first was a long hatpin of Cora's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flirt] Reference

It was a heavenly jade hatpin, an exquisite bit of carving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty Blossom] Reference

She took out her pearl hatpin and stabbed out the eyes of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Things] Reference

With that out came her hatpin, and she made a lunge at Sheeny Rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Tenements] Reference

Monny's hat was off, and Biddy's was apparently hanging by a hatpin.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Happened in Egypt] Reference

He had to get up and push up his seat before the hatpin was recovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets] Reference

Sometimes a pain, sharp as a hatpin, entered between her shoulder blades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

Mrs. Dawes stabbed the man who had pushed her through the wrist with a hatpin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference

In the next turn Rose's hatpin passed within a quarter-inch of Grace's jugular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Tenements] Reference

"Eh?" says I. "Is it a woman-eatin 'mouse, or did you grab a hatpin by the business end?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy As A Pa] Reference

"Wow!" he howled, clutching convulsively at that part of his person which had felt the hatpin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Merriwell's Chums] Reference

One lady, pointing to her friend, said 'well I used my hatpin, during the war, to kill germans'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

She snatched out her hatpin, flung his coat and waistcoat from over his chest, felt for his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference