122 collocations for pin

But Simmonds had come to see that Grady was tottering on his throne; he realised, perhaps, that his own head was not safe; and he had made up his mind to pin his faith to Godfrey as the only one at all likely to lead him out of the maze.

Now Beltane had wrestled oft with strangers in the greenwood and had learned many cunning and desperate holds; moreover, he had learned to bide his time; thus, though Gefroi's iron muscles yet pinned his arms, he waited, calm-eyed but with every nerve a-quiver, for that moment when Gefroi's vicious grip should slacken.

But just then it happened, fortunately, that the remnant of the biplane began to settle more positively than before, warning him that it was folly to pin any hope on its buoying him up more than a few minutes at most.

" Just then I noticed a gentleman, who was rather stoutly built, and who wore a blue military coat, on the left breast of which were pinned about twenty gold medals and badges of secret societies.

"You miserable rascal," cried Desmond, "lay a finger on a bill on that seat and I'll pin your hand to the car seat.

"I said I'd make that my last venture, and to remind myself how desperate my chances were I just jotted down those words, and pinned the note to the bill.

Just such a trinketa broochhad pinned the collar of her close habit three days before, when she and M. Raoul had stood together discussing the panel.

The governor made a speech and pinned the cross on Mary's left shoulder.

"Of course you know, darlings, I would never leave Beulah save for the coldest months; or only to earn a little money," said Mrs. Carey, smoothing her dress, flattening her collar, and pinning up the braids that Nancy's hugs had loosened.

As we rode up, they hastily scattered, and we saw pinned to the post a sheet of note-paper.

Then the near wheel struck my head, making a dirty little scalp wound, and pinned down my sleeve so that I couldn't pull away my arm, which is consequently barked all the way down.

The child was dressed in rich clothes and jewels; for Hermione had made it very fine when she sent it to Leontes, and Antigonus had pinned a paper to its mantle, with the name of Perdita written thereon, and words obscurely intimating its high birth and untoward fate.

"Do you take me for a sentimental idiot that I should pin silly labels on my old friend, Death?"

However, I like better the Spanish names, dormiderathe sleepy floweror copa de orocup of gold," I added as I pinned the flowers to my coat.

The tall, blue-eyed stranger had paused for a moment on the last step of the car to pin up her veil, fully revealing her face.

Of course, Herman, or whatever his real name is, never wrote the line on that card, and never pinned that card on his door!"

"I wonder if I could pin my hair up in a towel and dry it after lunch?" "Of course you may," said Mrs. Will Watterby warmly.

The firing of course ceased, and the German colonel saluted and thanked the officer, and pinned a ribbon to his coat.

I followed her up to the platform, while they pinned a little badge on her, and every one laughed at me.

She seized it and ran like an antelopewith the same gliding motionto a tree about thirty paces distant, on which she pinned the bit of paper.

He took from his waistcoat pocket the paper that declared his birth, unfolded it once, pressed it to his lips once, took pins from the edge of the collar of his vest, and pinned the letter fast upon the bosom of his flannel shirt.

" That rattled the trainer and he remembered that he had forgotten to pin the tail on me, so while I was using the finger bowl he went to the screen and got the tail and came out and was pinning it on to my dress pants, when the audience began to yell: "Fraud!

" They pinned a piece of paper on the tent-flap to say they were "Gone prospecting: future movements uncertain.

Just then as she raised her head and pinned her shawl more securely the door opened and something happened.

Whisking off her coat and hat, she rolled up her sleeves, and for want of an apron pinned a big towel round her; a very dirty towel it was too, but something she must have to protect her frock, and it had to be the towel or nothing.

122 collocations for  pin