Breastpin

He wore no ornaments, except ear-rings, a plain breastpin, and one or two rings on the fingers. ❋ Unknown (1870)

She wears an oldfashioned apron all the time and in cool weather there is always a little black cape around her frail shoulders and held together with a plain old gold "breastpin". ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

"I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wrapped in the little parcel was a breastpin worth at least two and one-half guilders, and ultramodern. ❋ Frank, Anne (1983)

Sally was in high feather at the success of her exploit, and danced about like an elf, as she put her night-gown on over her frock, braided her hair in funny little tails all over her head, and fastened the great red pin-cushion on her bosom for a breastpin in honor of the feast. ❋ Unknown (1950)

A few days after this, as I was walking in Broadway, musing on my condition, and convinced of the truth of the saying that "there is no solitude so complete as in the midst of a great city," but firmly believing that something would soon "turn up," I saw on the sidewalk an elegant and costly breastpin, which must have belonged to a fashionable lady. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)

For where, pray, would Lord Dolphin wear a breastpin, or how would he look with a string of coral beads about his neck, or a bracelet pinched about his tail? ❋ Harriet A. Cheever (N/A)

One day something lay close beside her that glittered splendidly; then the Darning-Needle believed that it was a diamond; but it was a Bit of broken Bottle; and because it shone, the Darning-Needle spoke to it, introducing herself as a breastpin. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat, -- one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom. ❋ Various (N/A)

"So now I'm a breastpin!" said the Darning-Needle. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

It was a black hat, of soft felt, with a wide flat rim which had been turned up in front and fastened with a breastpin, a measure which had obviously been taken because the rim caught the wind in such a way as to cause it to blow down over the eyes -- a thing which a true sombrero would not do. ❋ Charles D. Stewart (N/A)

But when you see your grandma or great-auntie wearing a lovely old-fashioned breastpin, bound around with gold, and holding a pink stone, shining like crystal, with a white carved head or other figure standing out from the lower stone, you may know it is a very valuable ornament, and was probably made from one of the finest shells found in the sea. ❋ Harriet A. Cheever (N/A)

A day or two after the adventure of the breastpin, my landlord represented to me, with much gravity, that I had been living with him above a fortnight, had not paid a cent towards my board, and, so far as he could see, there was no prospect that I ever would pay any. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)

One of the girls says she wears a trilobite for a breastpin; some horrid old stone, I believe that is, that was a bug ever so long ago. ❋ Various (N/A)

You see her there, in an every-day dress-cap with a mortal thread-lace border, and with a very ordinary worked collar, fastened by a visible and terrestrial breastpin. ❋ Various (N/A)

But just at a time when she had been having experience with the tribulations of a big leghorn on horseback, she saw a woman with a man's hat turned up at the side; and the next day she had procured one like it, which she turned up in the same manner with a breastpin. ❋ Charles D. Stewart (N/A)