With the aid of the tortoiseshell hairpin he dislodged the paper he had forgotten.
But when I looked again she had a hairpin between her white teeth, and was carefully adjusting her toreador hat.
That is just elegant," said Henry, as his eyes rested on a very rich gold hairpin set with diamonds which were sparkling in their beauty, as the rays of the sun brought out their brilliancy.
So when he received Julia's answer of acceptance he ordered by wire a diamond ring, a gold watch set in diamonds, a diamond necklace, and a gold hairpin set with diamonds.
But at last the dead woman's hairpin turns into a butterfly, and serves as a guide to vengeance by hovering above the place where the villain is hiding.
So all of those beautiful persons were assembled together in one place; and you were set free to fly among them; and it was decreed that the damsel upon whose hairpin you perched should be augustly summoned to the Imperial Chamber.
A stout hairpinof Mrs. Baxter's did the trick; a nice tool, Pippin pronounced it gravely.
One dexterous turn of Mrs. Baxter's hairpin (a dandy tool for light work, sure!
Judith it is this time, following hard upon the sunburned heels of Elizabeth, Evelina, and I do not know how many more hairpin gardeners.
The next day Juan went to look for the hairpin at the place where he had thrown it.
Juan was too lazy to get up and drive them away, so he took Ines's gold hairpin and threw it at the birds.
Then take a piece of wire about six inches long, or a hairpin will do if straightened out.
But what was a hairpin more or less, or even a "transformation" a little awry, to a woman about to become a corpse?
As it was, I sat with every muscle tense and a feeling as if my hair was standing up so straight on my head that every hairpin must fall out.
Yes, even if next week they were in the Hohenzollern, or the Hairpin trench at the Quarries, or that ugly angle at Hooge.
Its steering-gear was pretty dicky, and the bad surface and continual hairpin bends of the road didn't improve it.
Miss Entwhistle, taking the hairpinout of her mouth and in her turn staring.
As one leaves Bethany and proceeds down the Jericho road one passes along a steep zigzag with several hairpinbends until one reaches a guardhouse near a well about a mile east of Bethany.
IV The next morning we found more fish awaiting us, and on the smooth sand of the beach was a message written with a stick:-- If you will leave a wire hairpin or two on this stone I can get bigger fish.
With the hairpin one could easily make a fair fish-hook--and with a bootlace or a good hemp cord one could make a rabbit snare.
My sole worldly possessions are a stone hatchet and a hairpin fishhook.
In the afternoon we finished putting up the tepee, and Tish made a fishhook out of a hairpin and tied it to a strong creeper I had found.
Tied to the end the pole was a grapevine line, and a fishing-hook made of a hairpin was attached to it.
And you say that you put a piece of your hairpin in the lock, and that prevented him reopening it on the second night?
One hairpin among so many would only have caused dissension.
From that hairpin we could have made a needle; with that needle we could, out of skins, have sewn trousers of which your lordship is in need; indeed, we are all in need of them.
Lord--and he's dropped off to sleep as quiet as a lamb--with Barnes holding the gash in his throat open with a hairpin to let the air in.
Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour--landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair!
This hairpinshall be my birthday gift to you," says I.
Here I came nigh to tossing her half-finished hairpin into the fire; but seeing her turn her head, carved on for very shame.
So he had taken full advantage of the curves and hairpin bends of the wadi to place his machine guns in position sweeping the spurs and giving each other mutual support.
If by the hairpin vision, you glimpse an act as needing for completion the sacrifice of your life, you'd give it?
Though the Hairpin Vision shone full and steady as limelight upon the future, she was yet willing to take all the hazard of lessening love, so she might keep love.
And its god was the unknown, and its fear the Inevitable, and retrospect its recreation, and in the Hairpin Vision lay its safety, and in sex its slumbering danger.
He's an upstandin' citizen with all his brains and legs and arms and fingers and feet, and that's the kind of hairpinhe is.
Promptly every hairpin she possessed lost its grip and her hair came down.
Somewhat surprised, I approached to look at it, and perceived a hairpin fastened in the centre of the glossy satin.
She tried to pierce my eyes with thathairpin that you saw just now.
Tam banked over and came round on a hairpin turn, with his eyes searching the heavens above and below.
Trench mortar batteries bombarded far lip of left Hairpin crater, but were unsuccessful in destroying it.
The 4th of May saw 3 more mines exploded in the Hairpin crater, after which our bombers advanced to secure the lip of the crater.
They could not quite imagine Bassett--Whirlwind Bassett--lying dead out there at the bottom of Hairpin Gulch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hairpin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
