scarfpin
Example Sentences
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He was dressed in cheap, conspicuously patterned clothes, and his gay necktie bore a large scarfpin.
From The Shadow by Ovington, Mary White
She tossed him a box containing a scarfpin, and she nursed her knees, humming to herself and clicking her slipper heels while he examined it.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
"A watch, a scarfpin, and a five-dollar gold piece."
From The Mystery at Putnam Hall The School Chums' Strange Discovery by Stratemeyer, Edward
H'only this morning I come upon this scarfpin," exhibiting a very striking instance of that article, "an' I recalled as 'ow Sir 'Ugh give it me when 'e was acourting of Lydy Elling.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert
That was when Angus give Lysander John the scarfpin he'd sent clear to New York for—a big gold bull's head with ruby eyes and in its mouth a nugget of platinum set with three diamonds.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
