Read full poem →Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux.
Dictionary Entry
To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pinspins safetypins two
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Poetry examples for “pins”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In a translated suit, then tries the town,
With borrow'd pins, and patches not her own:
But just endured the winter she began,
Read full poem →Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white.
Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux.
Read full poem →Nous n'irons plus au bois,
Les pins sont eternels,
Les cors ont des appels!...
Read full poem →When I used to tie the willow boughs together for a swing,
And fish with crooked pins and thread and never catch a thing,
With heart just like a feather, now as heavy as a stone;
Read full poem →And, timid, gentlier presses its returns;
Then stealing pins with innocent deceit,
To loose the ’kerchief from its envied seat;
Read full poem →She hastens out and scarcely pins her clothes
To hear the news and tell the news she knows;
Read full poem →She spelt the word, then looked at me so lovin'-like an' mello',
I tell you 't sent a hunderd pins a shootin' through a fello'.
O' course I had to stand the jokes an' chaffin' of the fello's,
Read full poem →And ho! what a Skittle-ground! quoth he aloud
And wish'd from his heart nine Nine-pins to see
In brightness & size just proportion'd to me.