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"She had no pincushion, she has a pin tray." "I hardly see how it matters, Babbie; it was on her bureau, anyway! Just like a servant girl!" Mrs. Toland persisted. "Well, anyway, it seemed best to push it right through," said Jim, "especially as they persisted that they would do it again or die or rather, Sally did!" "Oh, Jim, DON'T!" wailed Sally's mother. "Poor, deluded child!"
Unconscious of what he was doing, he parted the fringe still more and thrust out his head for a better view. The top of his head struck the edge of the sofa with a dull thump. Santa Claus jumped as if someone had stuck a pin into him and turned. That portion of his face not covered by the scraggly beard was as white as mud and dirt would permit.
Glancing quickly about for a weapon, Grace picked up a good-sized stick she found on the ground, and ran in the direction of the sound, Anne at her heels. Miriam was struggling desperately to free herself from the grasp of a rough, unkempt fellow who had her by the arm and was trying to abstract the little gold watch that she wore fastened to her shirtwaist with a châtelaine pin.
Lieutenant Baldwin saying that the hunt would be worth seeing, and well repay one for the fatigue of the hard ride. So, one morning after an early breakfast, the horses were led up from the stables, each one having on a strong halter, and a coiled picket rope with an iron pin fastened to the saddle.
Let any one find me a happier man in all the town," she went on, with a scolding grimace. "He has silver in his purse, a gable over the Seine, a stout halbert on one hand, an honest wife on the other, a house as clean and smart as a new pin! And he growls like a pilgrim smarting from Saint Anthony's fire!"
One detective is now serving time in the state prison for retaining a stolen diamond pin." The mayor thought he had a machine for grinding blackmail from every criminal operation in his city, but he had only a gang, without discipline or coordinating power, and weakened by jealousy and suspicion. The wonder is that it lasted fifteen months.
With us it thrives in a warm greenhouse, producing its beautiful flowers in summer. Introduced about 1850. This plant is distinguished by the gouty-looking tubercles into which its broad, spiral ridges are divided, and which look as if they would suddenly burst like a blister if pricked with a pin.
'It was all there was, said Anthea, with timid firmness. She knew it was not her fault. 'There should be another piece, said the Psammead, 'and a sort of pin to fasten the two together. 'Isn't half any good? 'Won't it work without the other bit? 'It cost seven-and-six. 'Oh, bother, bother, bother! 'Don't be silly little idiots! said everyone and the Psammead altogether.
Ah! the good, good story!" sung in a strange voice, and at the same time there appeared to me the vision of the pinkish-yellow butterfly which two years before I had pricked with a pin, and placed under glass in my little museum.
What had happened he was unable, in the first fierce struggle for freedom, fully to determine. It was as if a living hand had reached down to pin him fast in the tunnel-like space. Then he discovered that a huge splinter on one of the joists was thrust like a great barb into his coat.
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