bar pin

Example Sentences

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Then she went to get a gold bar pin for her dress front, to make the neck higher, and I went out to the porch for a drink of well water.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

She was dressed in the style of twenty years before, with her linen collar inside the high collar of her dress, which was fastened with a bar pin, straight and plain like herself.

From Purple Springs by McClung, Nellie L.

Realest of all, there reposed on Miss Jevne's bosom a bar pin of platinum and diamonds—very real diamonds set in a severely plain but very real bar of precious platinum.

From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna

Well, this morning I'm back for a bar pin of Baxter's I'd lost, and there he is again, no overcoat, shivering his teeth loose, and all in.

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon

C'mon over and help me hunt for that bar pin I lost.

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon