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
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 Harry Leon Wilson
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 Edna Ferber
The result was a dress pattern of soft black silk, brocaded with a small leafy design, a graceful lace-edged, muslin fichu, and an onyx bar pin upon which three butterflies were outlined by tiny pearls.
From People of the Whirlpool by Mabel Osgood Wright
C'mon over and help me hunt for that bar pin I lost.
From Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson
