drawing-pins

And the letter wasn't there - but the drawing-pins were scattered on the ground below so somebody must have taken them out to get the letter.

Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

Then he found some drawing-pins and took them and the code-letter outside the van.

Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

He also brought mapping pens, Indian ink and blotting paper, and even remembered drawing-pins to pin the sheets of paper to the board.

Five Are Together Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

The contents revealed nothing, except that Saint-Hilaire, like everybody else, accumulated useless little objects, some old empty wallets for instance, two or three gold-rimmed amber cigar-holders which had not been used for a long time, a cigar-cutter, some drawing-pins and paper-clips, and pencils in every conceivable colour.

Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962

A sheet of clean paper should be laid on a drawing-board, and the photo placed on it face downwards, and firmly secured with drawing-pins.

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

Take some of the prepared canvas, and cut it an inch and a half larger than the photo; wet it thoroughly, and fasten it to a board with drawing-pins, the prepared side uppermost.

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

In maps of the enemy territory are hundreds of red drawing-pins.

Night Bombing with the Bedouins Robert Henry Reece

Fix the work down to the board with drawing-pins, inserted at regular short intervals round the edge, endeavouring during the process to stretch the material to its original shape.

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

There were also white drawing-pins, each bearing a letter, placed at irregular intervals.

Night Bombing with the Bedouins Robert Henry Reece

Small steel staples are convenient for fastening the collecting wires upon the paraffin; or, in the case where these wires have to be often removed and changed about, drawing-pins are very handy.

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall