And the sneering that accompanies every use of the word pawnbroker is palpable. From Wordnik.com. [Beachwood Reporter] Reference
I come hup jest when the perleeceman and the pawnbroker were a-gripping yer. From Wordnik.com. [Sue, A Little Heroine] Reference
The safekeeping of property given to the pawnbroker is the pawnbroker's responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Persfin]
Yes, I'm a pawnbroker, don't have nothing but the best. From Wordnik.com. [B.B. King Lyrics] Reference
Yes, I'm a payin 'pawnbroker, I pay the best price in town. From Wordnik.com. [B.B. King Lyrics] Reference
More than 97% of U.K. pawnbroker pledges are gold and diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [Pawnshops Grab] Reference
Next to it was a no-name vitamin shop and then another pawnbroker. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
Yes, I'm a ring pawnbroker, don't have nothing but the best that's made. From Wordnik.com. [B.B. King Lyrics] Reference
"But when I go broke, all other things failin ', I allers tackle a pawnbroker.". From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
The pawnbroker collects interest on the pledge if the consumer redeems the item. From Wordnik.com. [Pawnshops Grab] Reference
Some of the stock was used; the proprietor probably acted as a pawnbroker as well. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The pawnbroker roared Also, so, so did the landlord The scene was so crazy, wasn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [SHE'S YOUR LOVER NOW] Reference
Q As a pawnbroker, I represent one of the most misunderstood industries in the country. From Wordnik.com. [President At Small Business Heroes Health Care Event] Reference
I am a pawnbroker by trade and I see on a daily basis how this economy is crushing people. From Wordnik.com. [Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans] Reference
'You had better take those back to your wife; the baby will need them,' said the pawnbroker. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
The pawnbroker had given her twenty guineas for the earrings and one of her diamond necklaces. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
Tremblingly he unwrapped it, and handed the articles to the pawnbroker, saying, 'Give me ten cents.'. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Her father, Peter Winokur, was a successful pawnbroker whose family had emigrated from Eastern Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Kumin.] Reference
Eric Modell is a pawnbroker as well as the executive director of the National Pawn Brokers Association. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2009] Reference
We went down to a very busy pawnbroker to find out what happens when to your gold when you bring it here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009] Reference
` ` Certainly, there are many of them there: Itzok, Rachum, Samuel, Khaivalkh, Evrei the pawnbroker -- ''. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
The Dina Collection, however, is the largest and Dina himself has been labeled "pawnbroker to the stars.". From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Grant: Art Collectors Turn to Pawn Shops] Reference
He did not even know where any pawnbroker lived, nor what he could take to him, and the time was terribly short. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
He had been to a pawnbroker on Rue des Blancs-Manteaux and there had exchanged his clothes for a set of filthy rags. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Loner]
NGUYEN (voice-over): When it comes to being a pawnbroker, Phil Pavone knows his stuff, but it wasn't always that way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2009] Reference
This year, the number of first-time pawnshop users is up 10%, according to Mr. Adelman of the pawnbroker trade group. From Wordnik.com. [People Pulling Up to Pawnshops Today] Reference
I could make a long and terrible history of our dealings with the pawnbroker; I shall make a short and simple story of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
The pawnbroker looked from money to jewels and from jewels to money with an expression of curiously mingled grief and greed. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Seraphina Popps was the daughter of Mr. Hezekiah Popps, a highly respectable pawnbroker, residing in ---- Street, Bloomsbury. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841] Reference
With nowhere to turn for justice, the student proposes a radical but wrong way to deal with the cruelty of the old pawnbroker. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA)] Reference
Its ternate character is shown even in the uncoiling of the fronds, the three round balls suggesting the sign of the pawnbroker. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
They would have excited the pity of a pawnbroker, if he had not known them, so frightened and anxious and disconsolate they looked. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
A pawnbroker in Lawton had written him to say that he would be glad to sell the watch left with him as he had a good customer for it. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
I took him out and bought him clothes, got back his watch and chain from the pawnbroker, and went with him to the Grand Central Station. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
She bought useful things, and when her husband was out of work she could always get a large percentage of their cost from the pawnbroker. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
But it is still (comparatively) a secret that the proprietor of the establishment carried on on the premises the business of a pawnbroker!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891] Reference
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