37 examples of breastpin in sentences

That breastpin she wears has gray hair in it; her mother's, no doubt;I remember our landlady's daughter telling me, soon after the school-mistress came to board with us, that she had lately "buried a payrent."

The sheriff stood at the open window; he wore ruffles, and a dainty breastpin decorated the front of his shirt; he was neatly shaven, and a tiny little strip of sticking-plaster covered the little cut he had given himself during the process.

I began talking aloud to myself, leisurely taking off my cuffs and collar as I did so, and laying my breastpin and watch upon the table.

My watch and breastpin, which I had left on purpose, were still lying on the table.

Fanny bought the most splendid glass breastpin, which she pretended, with a merry laugh, to admire "to distraction."

"Look what a very handsome breastpin I have!" said Fanny, as they returned through the garden; "I'm sure nobody would know that it is not a diamond.

Don't you?" "I do!" cried Fanny; "I'm sure my great grandmother's diamond breastpin is much handsomer than this horrid thing!"

This circumstance was the appearance of Miss SalliannaMiss Sallianna arrayed in all her beauties and attractions, including a huge breastpin, a dress of enormous pattern, and a scarf around her delicate waist, azure-hued and diaphanous like the sky, veiled with an imperceptible cloud.

Beside him sits his wife Sheeley, rotund and ruddy, with a coronet of potatoes, a necklace of potatoes, a breastpin of potatoesand lastly, an apron full of potatoes.

Don't you remember this breastpin?"

For where, pray, would Lord Dolphin wear a breastpin, or how would he look with a string of coral beads about his neck, or a bracelet pinched about his tail? You needn't laugh so hard.

But when you see your grandma or great-auntie wearing a lovely old-fashioned breastpin, bound around with gold, and holding a pink stone, shining like crystal, with a white carved head or other figure standing out from the lower stone, you may know it is a very valuable ornament, and was probably made from one of the finest shells found in the sea.

I MET WITH A DREADFUL ACCIDENT!The other night, while dancing with cousin Frank, I dropped my Breastpin and Ear-Ring on the floor and broke them all to piecesNever mind, my dear.

Susie's affectionate heart, which had been swayed a moment from its orbit by the irresistible attraction of Bertie Leon's diamond breastpin and city swagger, swung back to its ancient course under the mild influence of time and the weather and opportunity.

He continued: "You no sooner let a woman git out of the wagon there now than she's crazy for a pink nubia, and a shell breastpin, and a dress-pattern, and a whole bolt of factory and a set of chiny cups and saucers and some of this here perfumery soap.

Till they centered in the breastpin, Centered in the golden breastpin.

Till they centered in the breastpin, Centered in the golden breastpin.

She Chewed Gum and kept her Sailor Hat pulled down to her Eyebrows and had her Name worked out in Wire and used it as a Breastpin.

And unfastening a breastpin, I jabbed it mercilessly into the flanks of our nag, who bounded forward, nearly, throwing us out.

I would join such a sect, and live and work for the poor" "Yes, I'll be bound!" said Mrs. Plausaby, feeling of her breastpin to be sure it was in the right place.

"Mother," said Albert, when they were gone, "is Katy going to be married in the spring?" "Why, how should I know?" queried Mrs. Plausaby, as she adjusted her collar, the wide collar of that day, and set her breastpin before the glass.

There's a young man hangs round here Sundays, and goes boating and riding with her, and makes her presents, and walks with her of evenings, and calls her his pet and his darling and all that kind of nonsense, and I half-suspect"here she took out her breastpin entirely and began over again"I half-suspect he's in earnest.

Immediately afterward, he placed his hand on a small breastpin in the centre of the shirt front, and turned it to the right and left.

The coroner was a jovial man, with a bulging forehead, a ruddy nose, a large diamond breastpin (a real diamond, of that superlative style only seen in its perfection on the shirt fronts of aldermen, contractors, and Washington Market butchers), and the native New York manner of speaking, which is sharp and mandatory.

When trees blossom, there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits, that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long.

37 examples of  breastpin  in sentences