safety-pins

In addition to their ornaments of bead and shell and bone, their pierced ears and nostrils were burdened with safety-pins, wire nails, metal hair-pins, rusty iron handles of cooking utensils, and the patent keys for opening corned beef tins.

Chapter 2 2010

If this weren't the case you'd search for other explanations, colic, teething, wayward safety-pins (nope, I'm not quite that old), etc.

A Voice from the Middle Ground 2007

I snapped this shot while I was working on some trinket bags, entertaining the kidlets and trying to find where I put my safety-pins.

Archive 2008-06-01 jek-a-go-go 2008

"They all had their names attached to their coats with safety-pins, and they carried little bags or satchels, and the regulation gas-mask" p.

Archive 2007-05-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2007

Talk about the use of an expression, like the use of safety-pins and table-knives, helps us to avoid thinking that we are talking about any queer relations or queer entities; to suppose or half-suppose that “studying the meaning of the phrase ˜the solar system™ [is] ¦ the same thing as studying the solar system” (1953, 306).

Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007

Cover it with patches of various lame pop-punk bands, attatched with safety-pins.

hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004

Better than those fat knackers you saw on the streets back home, hair dyed green and purple, safety-pins through their nostrils, with pasty, drab faces like dead fish on a slab.

Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992

These other cases contain more fishhooks, needles and thread, safety-pins, aspirins, water purifying tablets, things like that. '

Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

These other cases contain more fishhooks, needles and thread, safety-pins, aspirins, water purifying tablets, things like that. '

Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

I wished to God that Colonel Sam Colt had gone in for inventing something else, something useful, like safety-pins.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966