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With an effort he pulled himself together, and, gripping the stick, felt for the safety-pin, removal of which would allow explosion of the grenade once it came into contact with any body. Then, rising to his knees, and unsteadily to his feet, he stretched out his left hand to the wall, while with his right he swung the hand-grenade backwards and forwards.
Now, I'll have to hunt for a safety-pin " "I don't want a safety-pin! I'd rather let it flop." The horsewoman continued to survey herself dubiously, took in the bright scarlet sweater which formed the top part of her costume.
And there were Kitty and John and they were both magnificent at least Kitty was she being altogether resplendent in black alpaca finished off by a fichu of white lace, her big, full-bosomed, robust body filling it without a crease; and he in a new suit bought for the occasion, and which fitted him everywhere except around the waist a defect which Kitty had made good by means of a well-concealed safety-pin in the back.
I've even run out of safety-pins. And since the enduring necessity for the safety-pin is evidenced by the fact that it's even found on the baby-mummies of ancient Egypt, and must be a good four thousand years old, I've had Whinnie supply me with some home-made ones, manufactured out of hair-pins.... My little Dinkie, I notice, is going to love animals.
Marjorie looked a little wistful, as if she did not quite like to bother grandmother. There was another trip made to the closet, and the safety-pin was in Marjorie's hand. "You are a pretty nice grandma," she said, over her shoulder, as she ran out. Not very long after, Marjorie came into the kitchen again.
This idea can be carried out very easily by raising the bed covering in such a way as to remove its weight from the body, thus providing what we might call a chamber of air in which to sleep. With the aid of a large safety-pin or a horse-blanket safety-pin, the bed clothing may be kept thus suspended.
I asked the Persian to tell me by what trick the ghost had taken twenty-thousand francs from Richard's pocket in spite of the safety-pin.
Thus in one short week had Darsie's jewellery risen from a total which she herself described as consisting of "a few glass beads and a gold safety-pin" to five separate articles of real beauty and value.
Just at present he was achieving a spirited effect by always wearing an austere black necktie fastened with a small gold safety-pin; he wore this necktie for weeks to a bewildering variety of suits, and then plunged into a wild polychromatic debauch of neckties.
Ajax boasted with reason that the loosening of a single safety-pin left him in condition for a plunge into the pool at the foot of the corral. "I hope you're well, lord," said the little woman; "an' if ye ain't, why what I've got here'll do ye more good than a doctor. I reckon ye hev a mother, an' naterally she thinks the world of ye. Well, sir, I bring ye a golden word from her very lips.
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