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Likely, there's already a stick-pin iPhone attachment.
Michael Wolff: The ACORN Video Tells Us What We Need to Know 2009
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A totally no-sew curtain, and I do mean no sew - not even a stick-pin holding anything in place!
Decorating Redux...Etc. Jan 2009
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My silk hat gleamed, my immaculate suit (not evening wear, which I deemed would create too much of a distraction) did not; I gave my ebony stick a polish with a face-flannel and tucked my prized emerald stick-pin into the folds of my silk tie.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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With some reluctance, I removed the emerald stick-pin from my neck-tie and held it out.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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Wordlessly, I held out the pearl necklace; the singer took it, with hands that were uncertain with apprehension, and returned to me my stick-pin.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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TAYLOR: One of the, oh, big shots in the uniform puts a sort of stick-pin thing here and another one there.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Elizabeth Taylor Discusses Her Life and Career - January 15, 2001 2001
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But although Laddie felt very bad about his missing stick-pin, he would not cry.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope
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The loss of the wrist watch and the stick-pin could not be passed over lightly.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope
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However, Mother Bunker wrote the letter to Captain Ben, asking him to hunt all about the bungalow for both the wrist watch Rose had lost and the stick-pin Laddie was so confident now that he had left sticking in the cushion on the bureau in the bedroom.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope
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And there lay in cotton-wool the missing watch and stick-pin.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope
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