breastpin

• “He wore no ornaments, except ear-rings, a plain breastpin, and one or two rings on the fingers.”

  Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It?

• “She wears an oldfashioned apron all the time and in cool weather there is always a little black cape around her frail shoulders and held together with a plain old gold "breastpin".”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1

• “I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin.”

  Fictionaut: Sole Music

• “Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it.”

  The Lady from the Sea

• “Wrapped in the little parcel was a breastpin worth at least two and one-half guilders, and ultramodern.”

  Tales From The Secret Annex

• “Sally was in high feather at the success of her exploit, and danced about like an elf, as she put her night-gown on over her frock, braided her hair in funny little tails all over her head, and fastened the great red pin-cushion on her bosom for a breastpin in honor of the feast.”

  An Old-Fashioned Girl

• “But when you see your grandma or great-auntie wearing a lovely old-fashioned breastpin, bound around with gold, and holding a pink stone, shining like crystal, with a white carved head or other figure standing out from the lower stone, you may know it is a very valuable ornament, and was probably made from one of the finest shells found in the sea.”

  Lord Dolphin

• “For where, pray, would Lord Dolphin wear a breastpin, or how would he look with a string of coral beads about his neck, or a bracelet pinched about his tail?”

  Lord Dolphin

• “With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat, -- one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862

• “One of the girls says she wears a trilobite for a breastpin; some horrid old stone, I believe that is, that was a bug ever so long ago.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867

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