hairpin , also: hair pin , also: pin **

Always, he seemed in the grip of some force beyond him.

But we do not have much of a grip on the situation.

She wanted to get a good grip when the time came.

I could and did begin to get a better grip on myself then.

She still had a grip on the bush with her other hand.

Then he got a grip on himself and made one more try.

Just one more thing I could never get a grip on.

He just happened to have a grip on his own.

Nothing else happened until she let go the left grip.

Death certainly had a better grip on him than life did.

I sat down and tried to get a grip on things.

The boy never had felt quite so strong a grip on his body.

He's got a real grip on what needs to be done.

Without a good grip, one cannot play to his or her potential.

Yet for just a moment he actually had a grip.

I got a grip of myself and started to move.

She gave him time to get a grip on himself.

She took a grip on the side of the door.

He tried to get some sort of grip on himself.

His grip was strong, and she thought he must be used to hard work.

I tried to free my hands from her grip, but she was too strong.

My voice was too high and I tried to get a grip on myself.

The women, after all, held a grip on economic power.

This is a man who needs to get a grip on life.

But no one ever seems to really get to grips with why.

The implant is a small, flexible tube about the size of a hairgrip.

She had long dark hair pulled back with a red butterfly hairgrip.'

She took a hairgrip from the dressing-table and turned back the rug beside the bed.

My hands were turning the hairgrip key, working the clutch, feet on the pedals, wishing for a start.

She can't to say "no" when somebody asked her for a favor and during matches she uses same hairgrip.

Even a hairgrip might do.

She finds a torch, picks the lock of the boot with a hairgrip and sprays antiseptic into the librarians' eyes.

I reached into my pocket for the hairgrip of Suze's, dipped it in the Vaz, fed it to the starter.