I have always tried to be good, and there doesn't seem to be a hatpin in the world that makes a halo sit comfortably.

And be careful how you poke that ladder down, or you may stick it through me like a lady's hatpin.

" In the meantime Dick was looking at some fancy belt buckles and hatpins.

And he picked out the best buckle he could find, and likewise a handsome hatpin, and had them put into a fancy box, along with a fancy Christmas card, on which he wrote his name.

" She released her fingers from his, drew out the hatpins from her hat, unwound the veil and threw them both on to the opposite seat.

" As she spoke, she drew out her hatpins, still laughing in a half scornful, half good-natured way.

"A. Jones strikes me as having a fair intellect in a shipwrecked body, and I'll wager a hatpin against a glove-buttoner that he won't bore you.

Now I had been kidded enough about that legacy of mine, and when that doll, that ain't such a muchness herself, commences to hand out inferences, I naturally lost my goat, but remembering that I am now a lady I let go of my hatpin and merely remarked, 'Yes, but I came by it honestly, and I can safely say that I am no Foxy Grandpa's fair-haired child.'

give a final touch to your hairpins and hatpins, button your gloves, pull the rubber straps of your habit over your right toe and left heel, and you are ready.

But he reckons without her hatpin, which in the course of his deplorably abrupt attempts at seduction she pushes adroitly into his heart, and next day well-informed St. Petersburg winks discreetly when it learns that the Baron has died after an operation for appendicitis.

Sooner or later he must learn whether Katherine had hidden the evidence, whether she had used the stout and deadly hatpin, whether she struggled now in the grasp of vindictive men.

He ought to have the hatpin.

" The detective, however, failed to find the hatpin or any other weapon.

" "Except that I had no hatpin," Paredes yawned.

At one moment, after an absence, she would come into the parlour with a mouthful of hatpins; at another she would rush out to assure herself that the indispensable keys of the valise and bag with her purse were on the umbrella-stand, where they could not be forgotten.

Angela stabbed a hatpin viciously into her hat.

She set the lamp down, and with swift deftness slipped out hatpins, unhooked furs, unbuttoned and unlaced and loosened, until Sylvia woke from her lethargy and quickly completed the process, slipping on her nightgown and getting into bed.

And if she could not avail herself of that, she always relied on her hatpin.

She wore her almost flaxen-gold hair waved, and parted low on the forehead, beneath a black astrachan toque, with a red enamel maple-leaf hatpin in one side of it.

I have searched in vain for a statute relating to hatpins.

With bated breath they watch while I give them proof that my long hatpins do not go straight through my skull.

And jest think of every single thing that wuz ever manufactured from a hatpin to a rose-wood bedstead, and from a needle to a piano, and there it wuz in plain sight if you could git to it, for truly you got bewildered amongst the endless displays.