But I wouldn't lay a new pincushion on it myself, sir, though you ARE so well informed.
Don't say it's you, Mr Whilks, and that poor creetur Mrs Whilks with not even a pincushion ready.
However it was so little, and she began asking the clerk in her very bad French, mixed with German words, to let the little gentleman have the pincushion for a franc.
I wrote a note telling you where I was going and I fastened it to my pincushion where I was certain mother would find it.
It lifted his note and newspaper clipping from the pincushion and carried them across to the farthest corner under the bookcase.
Old pincushion was human--long hours of waiting had made him ravenously hungry.
I mean that here in Haarlem, whenever a boy is born, the parents have a red pincushion put out at the door.
Don't you see that pretty red pincushionhanging on yonder door?
The bird could pass through the opening as it was, and would have to tear the pincushion to pull the brooch off--probably holding the cushion down with its claw the while.
Even that one touch of colour visible in the red satin pincushion bore affinity to coral; even that dark, shining glass might have mirrored a mermaid.
As to that pincushion made of crimson satin, ornamented with gold beads and frilled with thread-lace, I had the same right to know it as to know the screens--I had made it myself.
An old pincushion or several towels rolled into a firm ball, or a book which will fit exactly, should be placed inside the crown.
If you should have a silver and plush pincushion with a movable top, your small articles of jewelry go in its interior, or in a small box in the top drawer.
I mean that here in Haarlem whenever a boy is born, the parents have a red pincushion put out at the door.
The substance, therefore, although deprived of all its qualities will still retain its essence unimpaired, will still be equally a substance, just as a pincushion continues equally a pincushion after its last pin has been abstracted.
The pincushion factory was all very well, but the selling part did not seem so pleasant, now that she had come to the point.
We do all we can already; and I don't want to get a fine bag or a ridiculous pincushion in exchange!
It was in one of these flashes that she ran up the back stairs to put a vase of apple blossoms and a red tomato-pincushion on Rebecca's bureau.
Sha'n't I fetch you the pincushion too, while I'm there?
Out tumbled a small green velvet pincushion made in the shape of a clover-leaf, with a tiny stem of wire wound with green silk.
As he put the hat down his eye fell on a pincushion by the mirror, and he gave a start of surprise.
I found it stuck in a pincushion in the next room, beside the girl's hat.
After the great event, rills begin to flow from the pincushion towards the railroad; the rills swell into rivers; the rivers soon unite into a lake.
The course as pretty as ever; the great pincushion as like a pincushion, but not nearly so full of pins; whole rows of pins wanting.
Such were my reflections upon falsehood, nor could I help altogether blaming the owner of the pincushion for her hasty judgment relating to it.
Wilcox of the United States Army, who collected many plants in Arizona and other western states) How to identify and how it grows The Brown Pincushion Cactus grows with flabby stems, two or three inches tall with as great a diameter.
How to grow This Pincushion is not injured by temperatures of twenty to twenty-five degrees below zero and hence is well suited for growing in cactus gardens throughout the country.
Orcutt, who shared her husband's interest in these plants) How to identify and how it grows The Snowball Pincushion is covered with a dense coat of white spines, looking much like a snowball lying on the ground.
Green Flowered Pincushion (Mammillaria viridiflora) Southeastern Arizona (Globe) The Green Flowered Pincushion would make a lovely addition to my lady's bower in a window rock garden.
Devil's Pincushion; Pineapple Cactus (Coryphantha robustispina) How to identify and how it grows The Pineapple Cactus is the largest of the Pincushion cacti, with its large tubercles and coarse spines.
I don't just remember whether I stuck it on the pincushion or laid it in the china tray.
I thought I stuck it in my pincushion when I came home from church yesterday evening, but I can't find it anywhere.
Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to make myself a ring?
The walls were as white, the pincushion as hard, the chairs as stiffly and yellowly upright as ever.
Mrs. Kildair, stopping in her bedroom, donned a Watteaulike cooking apron, and slipping her rings from her fingers fixed the three on her pincushion with a hatpin.
Then going to her dressing table she drew the hatpin from the pincushion and carelessly slipped the rings on her fingers.
Mrs. Potten opened her bag disclosing the shilling pincushion (which now she need not have bought) and placed the collar within.
Mrs. Potten thought of her Buckinghamshire collar and the shilling pincushion that she need not have bought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pincushion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
