hair-pin

From a place of incredible abundance and achievement, with the kind of status and prestige that people only dream of, her journey took an unexpected hair-pin turn, and suddenly she was plunged into a pit of shame, confusion, sadness, betrayal, loss and illness, all very much in the public eye.

Janice Taylor: Elizabeth Edwards: From Public Humiliation to New Reality 2009

I saw the hair-pin curve of consequences ahead and suddenly speed and power were my bane.

The Wreck 2006

"Those doors open into each end of a hair-pin shaped corridor," she said hurriedly.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

"Those doors open into each end of a hair-pin shaped corridor," she said hurriedly.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

She saw them sitting round a table; and a detail that she had not thought of for years came back to her — how Milly used to take her hair-pin and fray the wick of the kettle.

The Years 2004

Eleanor took out a hair-pin and began fraying the wick of the kettle.

The Years 2004

The play acted on that occasion was, “The record of the boxwood hair-pin.”

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Furtively peeping through an aperture in the fence, Pao-yü saw a young girl squatting under the flowers and digging the ground with a hair-pin she held in her hand.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Hsi Jen immediately picked up the hair-pin, as she remarked:

Hung Lou Meng 2003

But as he stood gazing at her in a doltish mood, he realised that, although she was tracing on the ground with the gold hair-pin, she was not digging a hole to bury flowers in, but was merely delineating characters on the surface of the soil.

Hung Lou Meng 2003