Mr. MacFurdle, on receiving my memo, adjusts his scarfpin and calls his secretary.
Well, as soon as the wind king placed the beautiful ruby scarfpin in the little rabbit's cravat he opened the door of his cave and gave a big puff, and away went Billy Bunny just like a bullet from a gun.
The little breezes are ringing the bells," said the wind king, and then he took out of a moss cushion a beautiful ruby scarfpin and handed it to Billy Bunny.
But he didn't care, for he landed as nicely as you please on a mossy bank, and then he looked in the brook to see if the rubyscarfpin was still in his cravat, and then he looked around to see what he would do next.
Lifting a scarfpin from a soused party is all right, for he is supposed to do something to remunerate the lady for wasting her time by taking her to supper.
I never will forget one time she was out riding with a handsome gentleman from Pittsburg in a cab and while leaning on his shoulder his diamond scarfpin got caught in her teeth.
The rings and the scarfpin were not plucked from his hands and necktie; they were found deep in his pockets where he had hidden them, thinking perhaps, to smuggle them past the bandoleros.
At that, the emerald scarfpin was but a very ordinary jimcrack and the diamonds of the two rings, though huge and pretentious, had the dishonest and glassy look of paste imitations.
But a gold watch, a few Spanish gold and silver peseta pieces, two rings set with diamonds and an emerald scarfpin were taken from him before he was liberated by the searchers.
The watch was taken from Paxton, thescarfpin from Ritter, and Coulter lost the five-dollar gold piece.
Not a trace of the missingscarfpin could be found.
You are positive that you had the scarfpinwhen you came home, Ditmore?
Some lad nicked me for my roll and my return ticket, and my gold watch and chain, and my horseshoe scarfpinwith the diamonds in it.
That was when Angus give Lysander John the scarfpin he'd sent clear to New York for--a big gold bull's head with ruby eyes and in its mouth a nugget of platinum set with three diamonds.
The turkey held his head upon one side, apparently in critical admiration of the darky's quaint old scarfpin which resembled a grain of corn mounted on a needle.
Now, only two persons knew that a scarfpin was picked up in the grounds of The Laurels after the murder.
The whole case turns on her explanation of the scarfpin episode.
Why, in the third volume of that book there is an episode of a scarfpin which is not mentioned in the report of the trial, but which was told to Miss Paynton by the man you call Kerry.
He denies that the garnet scarfpin ever existed, while Mrs. Bezel said she saw it herself.
The pearl in his scarfpin was a splendid specimen; he roughly calculated that it represented an expenditure of at least a hundred dollars; and she had flung it at him as carelessly as though she were tossing cherries from a tree.
His fingers touched his scarfpinand tie nervously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarfpin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
