scarf-pin

• “His well-brushed top hat glittered, his varnished boots glittered, and his rings and scarf-pin glittered; in fact, so resplendent was his appearance that he looked like an animated diamond coming along in the blazing sunshine.”

  The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

• “He may not answer your kind enquiries, but look you up and down from the welt of your boot to your scarf-pin.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914

• “The man, whose incinerated body still lay curled in its bed of cinders, had been dressed at the moment of disaster; even to the watch, the cuff-buttons, the studs, the very scarf-pin.”

  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

• “He wore a double-jeweled ring on his apoplectic finger, and a scarab scarf-pin.”

  The Witness

• “He took a bath and changed his clothes, and then proceeded to town and bought himself a white neck-tie, and a scarf-pin that cost seventy-five cents.”

  Hepsey Burke

• “Except for the miner's hip boots, which he wore, he was rather handsomely dressed, and would have been called tastefully so in the betting ring of a metropolitan race-track, where his diamond scarf-pin and ring would have been admired.”

  Hidden Gold

• “However, either bride or groom gives something to the bridesmaid and a scarf-pin to each usher.”

  Manners and Social Usages

• “You spoke too soon, Frank," said Phil, showing a pair of cuff links, while Joe made every one laugh by assuming dandified airs as he stuck in his tie a pretty scarf-pin.”

  Glenloch Girls

• “You can buy very pretty owls 'heads under glass, arranged to wear as a scarf-pin.”

  Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly

• “His father had inspired him with a horror of jewellery; for once, when he had spent the savings of a month upon a cheap scarf-pin, the elder Armstrong had wrathfully asked him what he meant by sticking that brass-headed nail in his chest, and had thrown the gewgaw into the fire.”

  Despair's Last Journey

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