Similar guttae are carved under the mutules of the Doric cornice, representing the pinsdriven through the mutules to secure the rafters.
In the gusli the strings, of graduated length, are attached to little nails or pins at one end, and at the other they are wound over a rod having screw attachments for increasing and slackening the tension.
She took it, and with great efforts managed to roll it up, and fasten the roll with two large pins she found in it, which had shiny black heads.
The whole was set off by a diadem of long pins with large heads beautifully chiselled, and inlaid with beads of metal or glass, these pins being stuck through a sort of leathern fillet which bound up the hair.
Mrs. Wayne, who had prepared for walking with overshoes and with pins for her trailing skirt, did not seem too enthusiastic at the suggestion.
In her short petticoat, with her ankles showing and her arms bare, she looked like a very young girl, and when she put up her hands and took the pins out of her hair, so that it fell over her shoulders, she might have been a child.
I felt all around to see if its clothes pinched anywhere, or if there were any pins pricking.
When I took out the pins and unrolled it, it fairly popped like the cork out of a champagne bottle.
But I go to church for the looks of the thing, and for business reasons; and then stick pins into myself to keep awake while I listen to pedagogical Borwell tell what he doesn't know about God and man.
I came to the conclusion that there were mighty few down-and-outs who couldn't be set upon their pins again, given half a chance by any one sufficiently interested.
Then, as the servile element of her sex was comparatively small in her, she turned bitter and cold, and avenged Leonard indirectly, but openly, with those terrible pins and needles a beloved woman has ever at command.
The veil of light gauze, fastened to the big pins in her headdress, and covering her face, although it might show her desire to preserve her incognito, in no way masked the Princess; she was recognized at the first glance.
Some might substitute, for the tortoise-shell pins generally used, others of similar length, but made of filagree gold; their neighbors might prefer to adorn their hair with nothing but flowers and silk cords.
The Queen had in her hair large pins of light tortoise-shell elaborately wrought, and on her brow was a small round mirror surrounded by a row of pearls.
The embroidery of their kirimons glittered, and the great shining pins in their hair gleamed.
So eight papers of pins were bought, not to speak of a good deal of white paper muslin.
They wrapped it round the frame, and it went around three times, being large, so that a couple of pins held it fast.
Louise, over by the mirror, continued to put pins into her hair, and Miss Lawrence did not try to super-intend her toilet at all, though Louise was getting herself up to look as near twenty as she could.
It was cheaper to pay over the dollar than to buy back several thousand pins at monopoly prices.
The young playwright was Roderigo, the play was given in the loft of the Edwards barn, and twenty-five pins was the price of admission (thirty if the pins were crooked).
A warrior's rank and bravery are denoted by a great number of little pins made of bones or green talc, which are worn across the breast at the edge of the matting.
Their garment is simply a piece of woollen cloth fastened together by a couple of pins over the bosom.
She gave Helen her dress complete, down to the satin shoes, and the fan and the long gloves, and a turquoise necklace, and turquoise pins for her hair.
And why on earth did you let me bring out all those pins and things?
Anyhow, that's better than using infernal pins that are a danger to the community," said Colonel Faversham.
He burned to impart the news to the drudge in curling-pins who brought in his tea and haddock, he wanted to pat the heads of the children who were playing tip-cat in the roads.
He found it on the heads of two large bronze pins (figs.
The shell objects (in addition to the disks and gorgets mentioned) werepins made from the columellae of Fulgur (Busycon perversum?
In Armenia it was found on bronze pins and buttons; in the Trojan cities on spindle-whorls; in Greece on pottery, on gold and bronze ornaments, and fibulae.
My pins always come out," said Ethel, disconsolately, crumpling the black folds into one hand, while she hunted for a pin with the other.
The ninepins soon began to simmer in Moiley's[19] milk.
It is also useful to study the changes which the form of the ellipse undergoes when one of the pins is altered, while the length of the loop remains unchanged.
A loop of twine passes over the two pins in the manner here indicated, and is stretched by the point of a pencil.
If the pins be separated more widely the eccentricity of the ellipse will be increased.
If the two pins be brought nearer together the eccentricity will decrease, and the ellipse will approximate more closely to the shape of a circle.
That the circle is an extreme form of ellipse will be evident, if we suppose the two pins to draw in so close together that they become coincident; the point will then simply trace out a circle as the pencil moves round the figure.
She liked the little pearl buttons in the pill box, and the safety pins were nice too.
Kind and trustworthy pins they were to hide their points beneath smooth, round shields.
As Tommy watched, Smithers stopped them, oiled the pins carefully, and painstakingly inserted a fourth ring.
There were three of them, and each was fitted into the next largest by pins which enabled them to spin noiselessly and swiftly at the touch of Smithers' finger.
I guess I shall get one of those pins that Nanny Corey had in her hair.
PAUL came back to Port aux Pins five days before the time of his departure for the South.
And you to stay in Port aux Pins with Paul," thought Hollis.
I am well now, at any rate, and you can return to Port aux Pins whenever you like; no doubt you have been much missed there.
The Port aux Pins days were, in themselves, harder for the judge than for Cicely.
At last, on the fifth day, Port aux Pins was in sight, a spot of white amid the pines.
She returned towards Port aux Pins by the fields, avoiding the road; the shadows were dense now; it was almost night.
The Port aux Pins doctor had at length given a name to her listlessness and her constantly increasing physical weakness; he called it nervous prostration (one of the modern titles for grief, or an aching heart).
She was seated on a sofa in Paul Tennant's parlor, a large room, furnished with what the furniture dealer of Port aux Pins called a "drawing-room set.
Bonham had a forest farm about five miles from Port aux Pins on the road to Betsy Lake, and his wife kept Paul's cottage supplied with butter.
He reached Port aux Pinsat night, and let himself into his cottage with his key; lighting a candle, he went to his room.
Needles and pins of pain All pointed the same way; Parellel lines of pain When the lips are gray And know not what they say: Rain, Rain.
The Gallipoot made a signal and at once his attendants picked up General Guph and carried him away to a prison, where the jailer amused himself by sticking pinsin the round fat body of the old Nome, to see him jump and hear him yell.
By this time the jailer had tired of sticking pins in the General, and was amusing himself by carefully pulling the Nome's whiskers out by the roots, one at a time.
Guph was so delighted that he forgot all the smarting caused by the pins and the pulling of whiskers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
