Illustration] You may some time have occasion to make a shelter on a ledge or floor where you cannot drive a pin or nail.
Cut away the wood from just above the notch towards the back of the head; this will prevent the notch of the pin from splitting off when it is driven.
She had always respected him, he remembered, and he did not want to lose her respect now; and the fear that he would lose it set his shoulders back and steadied the grip of his feet on the floor.
He hoped that his father would not come and help him unharness the horses.
He could see his father carrying a basket of wood to the house.
Crawling out of the blanket in the morning, I have met the cold--such a shock throughout, that it centered like a long pin driven in the heart.
But, when you see her, stick a pin into the palm of her hand, and suck the drops of blood that flow.
He knelt down by her side, and pulling a pinhe stuck it into the palm of her hand, so that a drop of blood gushed out.
Now the young man had a pin sticking in the sleeve of his jacket, and the moment the girl's hand touched him she pricked it so sharply that the blood came.
Young girls saw their husband that was to be, upon dropping a pin into its depths in the twilight.
My own you would be heartily welcome to, but she is a fresh, foolish wench from the Sologne, and would sooner groom a nag of Beauce than pin aright a lady's stomacher!
I once saw scratches on an open pin oak and cane ridge; then others at twenty paces, and again at fifty paces still others.
One of the last seasons I spent in the vicinity of the Tombigbee country in Alabama there were no grapes or muscadines in the bottoms, but a good pin oak crop of acorns, such as the turkeys like.
This pin extends below the lowest point of the crucible a couple of inches, and by knocking it upward the molten metal is allowed to flow out.
Before filling the crucible with the thermit, however, the pouring hole is very carefully plugged up by a special process, with a little steel pin protected by fire sand and fire clay.
I can sodder some sort of a pin an' catch on the badge, too.
Then you must pinyour sheriff's badge on your chest where it'll show good an' plain.
She told, too, what Tess did each month with her own pin money, and the next allowance day Tess was surprised to find an extra half dollar in her envelope.
Carefully undoing it, he revealed a lady's handkerchief, pinned through the folds with a pin of discoloured Venetian gold, the stone of which had fallen from the socket.
To prepare the rough shell for use, you must first take a long pin and free the interior of each shell from all grit or dirt; next with your scissors clip the extreme tip of the shell so as to leave a tiny hole like the eye of a needle.
Doubtless Jay Dee had stuck a pin into Albion, but maybe Albion had mussed Jay's hair and jabbed his ear, had dragged and shaken him in the aisle at least.
But this pin had stuck fast, and Mrs. Yorke was in quite a panic.
It was the little pin that Keith had found in the Ridgely woods and returned to her so long ago; though Keith did not recognize it.
A big boy was preparing a pin to evoke from a smaller neighbor the attention he himself was withholding.
The larger of the two objects in the annexed woodcut represents a pin or bodkin, formed from the left metatarsal bone of an ox of small size, in which the natural form of the joint has been turned to account for forming its head.
Another smaller pinof the same class is in the Durham collection.
This also contained a pair of oval brooches, an ornamental pin or bodkin, and a pair of combs.
The woodcut represents a bronze pin about one-fourth of the natural size, which was found in a tumulus at Sandwick, in Orkney.
A small bronze pin or bodkin was likewise picked up among the interesting contents of this cist.
The married women bind up their hair with a large pin into a knot on the crown of their heads.
The commonest form consists simply of two thin circular flat stones, the upper one of which is pierced in the centre, and revolves on a wooden or metal pin inserted in the under one.
These experiments succeed best with tubes about twenty or twenty-two inches long, which have in each end a pretty strong pin fixed in cork for their axis.
At Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight, is a well 210 feet in depth, and twelve feet in diameter, into which if a pin be dropped, it will be distinctly heard to strike the water.
