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Saxon, still unaccountably fumbling with her hatpins, stole a glance at him.

There were no variously coloured hatpins on her dressing-table; no scent-bottles; no narrow curved pairs of scissors; no great variety of shoes and boots; no silk petticoats lying on the chairs.

If I could have done as I did with the hats -- stood them both up together, shut my eyes, and jabbed with a hatpin -- it would have been quite easy."

She never told me of those marks on her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well that they come from a stab with a hatpin. The sly devil--God forgive me that I should speak of him so, now that he is dead.

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Wearing designer disguises, she uses poisoned perfume and delicately crafted hatpins - as well as guns and knives - to execute her victims face to face.

Wearing designer disguises, she uses poisoned perfume and delicately crafted hatpins -- as well as guns and knives -- to execute her victims face to face.

It is a line of my own blood, a dot pricked with a hatpin, because yes, my mother carries hatpins.

He remembered how, when he was little, she used to help him make costumes from oddments around the house: tunics crafted out of pillowcases, pantyhose rabbit ears, even, during his Medusa phase, an old straw boater with candy worms speared onto hatpins. Sometimes he gave impromptu dance recitals for his mother's chess club while Amma directed in stage whispers from behind the record player, conducting Gershwin with a celery stick.

From elsewhere came hatpins, necklaces, brooches and pendants from sources such as the Birmingham School of Art designers Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, and the famous enameller Ernestine Mills, whose work was sold at suffragette fundraising events.