Although I knew Gately's name stood for all that was honorable and impeccable in the business world, I had not forgotten the hatpin on his desk, nor the queer smile on Jenny's face as she spoke of his personal callers.
The hatpin was, doubtless, left by a woman caller, but we've no reason to suppose she was there at the same time the shooting occurred.
This," and Norah pointed to a hatpinthat lay on the big desk.
If that therehatpin is a clew, you're welcome to it.
Oh, all right," she retorted; "I see her hatpin is still here.
No, I argue that if a woman shot Mr. Gately she would be cute enough not to leave her hatpin by way of a visitin' card.
The hatpin may have been left here this morning or any time.
Then I told him about the hatpin and the carriage check; and I also related how Norah had found and kept the "powder-paper" that she picked out of the waste basket.
You remember, we found a hatpin here that led us to Sadie, 'The Link,' as straight as a signboard could have done.
Placing the hatpin in the drawer with the checkbook, Mr. Talcott locked the drawer and slipped the key in his pocket.
Olive; "and I've studied thathatpin for hours and never could deduce a thing!
At a sudden impulse she drew a hatpin from her hair and knelt down on the geyser cone--not reflecting how long and slow had been its growth.
Remove the head from the hatpin and fasten the blunt end in the center of the safety-razor blade A with a piece of sealing wax so that the pin B is perpendicular to the blade as shown.
The length of this hook should be such that the pointed end of the hatpin will be at the top of the scale F when there is no current in the wire, D.
Illustration: Model Turbine Boat Using a Baking-Powder Can for a Boiler with Candles as Fuel] The turbine is constructed on an axle made of a hatpin which runs through the top of the standards for bearings.
Make a small hook, E, from a short piece of rather stiff wire and fasten it to the hatpin about 1 in.
Directly above and parallel with the motor shaft run a shaft--a hatpin will do--in bearings fastened to the deck.
In the next turn Rose's hatpin passed within a quarter-inch of Grace's jugular.
It was a battle for life; for there is no dagger more deadly than the hatpin these women carry, chiefly as a weapon of defence in the hour of need.
Hatpin in hand, she parried the thrust and lunged back.
Poppy would go halfway, but always a new insult would occur to her, and she would return to fling it at Mrs. Murdoch, stabbing the while into its place again a hatpin which during her retreats she always half withdrew.
She fixed him with her eyes that were beady like the head of the hatpin in her cap, and sweeping her hand upward over her nose, she vanished.
Make the bottom bridge by using an old hatpin or wire of the same size for E secured with pin staples.
Bend these pieces of brass over a piece of hatpin wire, thus forming two V-shaped pieces.
They both stooped to pick it up, and a hatpin in Mrs. Pickford's hat caught her in the nostril.
The death of a girl from blood-poisoning caused by a hatpin penetrating her nose was inquired into at Stockport, Cheshire, yesterday.
The coroner said that not many cases came before coroners in which death was directly traceable to the hatpin but there must be a very large number of cases in which the hatpin caused injury, in some cases loss of sight.
She drew forth the hatpin which is so much deadlier than the scarfpin of the species.
She followed up with a little hatpin treatment while the faithful fellow let forth a coloraturo lyrico outbursto for the intervention of from twelve to fifteen hundred saints.
The distrait girl used the hatpin lavishly on Hulda.
Well aware was he that he would remember that hatpin at meals for days to come and, expert chef that he was, he regarded with horror the idea of a future in which he would figure as Spaghetti enbrochette.
Three of you were in my bedroom when I took off my rings, placed a hatpin through them, and fastened them to the pin-cushion.
Then, going to her dressing-table, she drew the hatpin from the pin-cushion and carelessly slipped the rings on her fingers.
That was very reasonable, too--but I told him I didn't see how the hatpin was going to be pulled out.
He said: 'Did you, at school, Louis, have the lamp and orange and hatpin trick to explain night and day to you?
I said it would, and he went on to say the hatpin wasn't jabbed through my centre, and that's why I wobbled so much.
And I think that Destiny is often very kind--even to the Hatpin offspring.
With the other I sticks a hatpin into Uncle Dave where it will do the most good.
Indeed, he ate so fast and so wolfishly, that by the time I had finished my own meal, and had rung the bell for the bill, my piratical friend was also pushing away his plate with a sigh of satisfaction, and asking for his bill.
That her ridiculous and accursed hatpin should have dared to touch the eyes of his soul's lady, and scratch out the face of the child!
She would have torn the flesh from Amaryllis' face had she been there, and thrust her hatpin into her real eyes.
She took out her pearl hatpinand stabbed out the eyes of the Virgin, almost shaking with passion, and scratched and obliterated the face of the Christ child.
It was a battle for life; for there is no dagger more deadly than the hatpin these women carry, chiefly as a weapon of defense in the hour of need.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hatpin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
