Pins

Examples

• The conductor from the hopper to the machine is made of two strips of steel, down which the pins, held by their heads, slide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Am I responsible for putting back the pins? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At the pins end of the bed, this forms one of the sides and the bottom of the pit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many tons of pins are made in the United States weekly, and it is said that 20,000,000 pins a day are required to meet the demand. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The whitening is done by boiling the pins in a large copper kettle, which also contains layers of grained tin and a solution of argol or bitartrate of potash. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The sticking machine is of a simple construction, but is wonderful in operation, and requires no attention by the operator, except to keep it supplied with pins and papers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The first American pins were made in Rhode Island, during the Revolution, by Jeremiah Wilkinson. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Bowling, as we know today, is an indoor adaptation of, and an improvement upon, the old Dutch game of nine-pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He carried the production of machine-made pins to a commercial basis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The term pin-money dates from that time and originally came from the allowance a husband gave his wife to purchase pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Please to put THAT up the spout, ma'am, with my pins, and rings, and watch and chain, and things. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Of these receiving pins, one pair--1 and 3--are of iron, and the other pair--2 and 4--of tellurium. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Dr. John Neland Howe, a physician of Bellevue Hospital, New York City, formed a company in 1832 for the manufacture of pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They are now dropped through a blower, where the sawdust is separated from the pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At first five lines were used to carry these impulses to the receiving instrument, where there were five iron pins impinging on the drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If all the pin wire used for these 25,000,000,000 pins were in one piece it would go around the earth fifteen times. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nine years later, Samuel Slocum, of Connecticut, invented a new machine for sticking the pins on papers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With this positive current the tellurium pins make marks upon the paper tape, but the iron pins make no mark. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When we took up the carpet last year, Mr. Jennings, we found a surprising quantity of pins. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There is reason to believe they set great store upon their hair, wearing it in large shocks with pins of bone and afterwards of metal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With the coming of bronze, their pins and ornaments increased in number. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The largest of these pins were probably used for fastening the hair. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As the pins are knocked off into the gutters, or the pit, the pin boy picks them up and lays them flat on their sides into the pockets at the top of the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• From there the pins go to the sticking department, where they are stuck on papers as you buy them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then the woman put up Catherine's hair, and Catherine looked in the mirror and changed it a little, taking out and putting in pins; then stood up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The pins are separated from the sawdust as before. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As the latter moves up and down the pins play upon the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus canting it and pushing the type-wheels to the right or left, as the case may be. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• During the War of 1812, the industry was started because of the difficulty of getting pins from England, where most of them were made. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I'd have murdered her for two pins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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