hatpin

"I suppose in the end you had to get out the old hatpin?"

It looked about the size of a hatpin in his giant hands.

"It is a short hatpin, not long enough to reach the heart of a strong man.

He also buys her a new hatpin, as she had lost hers when they first met.

The tool he now used looked like an extremely slender hatpin.

I pulled the hatpin out and held my handkerchief over the bleeding.

"I somehow imagined one used a hatpin or a hammer."

But with regard to the hatpin, I don't remember him being surprised.

Granny replaced the hatpin in her hat and ran for it.

Hatpin: ought to have a guard on those things.

The door opened, and Hal jumped as if he'd been stuck with a hatpin.

Did someone stick a giant hatpin into the supermodels, or what?

It was stuck to a piece of foam with a hatpin."

There in her cap was the huge metal hatpin he had spied before.

It was also worn by women as well, often with hatpins to keep it in place.

A hatpin is a decorative pin for holding a hat to the head, usually by the hair.

Quick, like somebody had stabbed me with a hatpin, but deep."

There was some wire stiffening to give it a shape, and a couple of hatpins.

My own heart was pounding as if I'd been the one chased by a lunatic with a hatpin.

Sometimes the hatpin had to be used, sometimes not.

Her black straw hat, secured by a beaded hatpin, had seen its best days long ago.

There was a hatpin lying on the table.

I put my foot firmly on the weapon-a long, sharp hatpin.

And then I said that I was concerned about the hatpin.

"Sliced off like a chicken neck and stuck with a hatpin.