Long story short, my cousin pawned it because he needed the money. From Wordnik.com. [Beware The Oddball Gun] Reference
Pwnd as in pawned (controlled) pawned needs to be a real word though now that would be sweet. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another geek plate.] Reference
"You even pawned his fishing rods and golf clubs.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
And has pawned his last bed, their coffers to fill. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Their Regalia has been pawned for their high living. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
TUCHMAN: And pawned his watch to pay for Jaguar gas money. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2009] Reference
They stole all my clothes and pawned them to a whiskey dealer. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference
I even pawned my crutches, which I still used and still needed. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
On her wrist was a watch that might get pawned for a plane ticket. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
The money, the clothes, the paraphernalia he had pawned, were returned. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Come to me las 'week, an' pawned his coat for my back room to sleep in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
I had been arrested and had pawned my trunk to get money to pay my fine. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
Rubens made a drawing of it, for it was pawned in his time for a large sum. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath] Reference
In ten years I have lost, given away, and pawned over fifty suits of clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
I fear there is no escape for you -- you pawned the thing yourself in your own name. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
The pawnticket was on the table and related to a diamond aigrette pawned by one James. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
In 1340 Edward III. pawned even the queen's jewels to raise money for fighting France. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
If her jewelry was pawned after her death, number one, we have to find out who pawned it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2004] Reference
"Maybe he -- pawned it," suggested Belle, who had rather vague ideas concerning pawnshops. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
I shall issue the necessary orders to have my large golden dinner-set either sold or pawned. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Butter, dates, olives, broken and pawned articles, are mixed up in the most absurd confusion. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
You never know, things that can be pawned, things that are made of silver and so forth, gold. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2005] Reference
Along the way, they burglarized somebody ` s apartment, got some items, pawned them in Vegas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2005] Reference
"Nevertheless," interposed Garry, "they and a number of other things you pawned were Brian's.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Investigators seized over 900,000 pawned pounds of raw material, raw powder from that country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2007] Reference
I started from home with two suits of clothes which I pawned for whisky after my money was all gone. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
One night when Shepherd came to her and told her he had pawned the last thing he had for half a crown. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Hadn't a stiver left one night, but I pawned my grandfather's Louis xiv. watch for the next evening's play. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
But between you and me I believe the old man is getting a bit looney, and that he has pawned them long ago. From Wordnik.com. [Dick the Bank Boy Or, A Missing Fortune] Reference
I'd been on half rations before that, till my strength was all gone: I'd pawned my clothes till I wasn't decent. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Behold their houses stripped gradually of their furniture, and pawned, or sold by a constable, to pay tavern debts. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Soon after, in the far-away city he died; she pawned her wedding ring to make up the price of tickets back to Georgia. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
Famine, high prices, and depletion of the treasury were the consequences of the war; Lucretia had even pawned her jewels. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
A diamond star not yet definitely identified had been handed over to the police, the same having been pawned by James Merritt. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
He failed in his examination, and then, in despair, he pawned the borrowed clothes, to the great anger of the publisher who had lent them. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
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