The paper had proved to be the pawnticket of a watch pledged in Belfast for the sum of one pound, the name upon it being Henderson.
Of course it is quite possible the poor creature did not like to give her right name at a pawn office.
So from that on we went as men whose lives are held in pawn by a hidden foe, looking at every turn for an ambushment.
Truly, she had told me, or as good as told me, that her maiden love had pledged itself a pawn for Jennifer's redeeming.
As near, my Liege, as all my woman's power Can pawn it self to buy thy remedy.
If ever either my father, or I, were seen in the streets without a fresh wound on our faces, the neighbours knew that there was no money in the house, or anything that would be received at a pawn shop for so much as sixpence.
He would then return, abuse my mother, beat the children, take something else out of the shop; and pawn it for more money to spend in drink or dissipation.
And no one to know; for Jehan would sell or pawn the remainder, none the wiser.
And they would pledge and pawn everything they possessed, except their pride, on the results of Lateefa's skill with paste and paper.
He retired to his old dwelling at Mortlake, in a state not far removed from actual want, supporting himself as a common fortune-teller, and being often obliged to sell or pawn his books to procure a dinner.
He was more than once obliged to pawn his diamond, the sole remnant of his vast wealth, but successful play generally enabled him to redeem it.
This hooded cowl and prayer-mat pawnfor wine, Then will I boast me in security.
Yesterday, at evening, I put myself in pawn at the tavern for a cup of wine.
And from a knight to a poor pawn translate, You marshal all your force to tire me out, You take my rooks with yours, and then checkmate!
My subtlest stroke is to wait until Her Majesty is in front of the king, and then to place my castle in front of her, with a pawn in support.
The board is produced, I remind myself that the queen stands on a square of her own colour, and that the knight goes next to the castle; I push forward the king's pawn two squares, and we are off.
Sometimes I forget the pawn and he takes my castle, in which case I try to look as if the loss of my castle was the one necessary preliminary to my plan of campaign, and that now we were off.
Perhaps, after all, it would be best NOT topawn the mantilla.
She would be a tool, a necessary pawn in this game of cross-purposes, which had the freedom and greatness of England for its ultimate aim.
It was for his deft fingers to move this pawn in the direction in which he list.
Had he become the lesser pawn now in this gigantic game of chess, in which the hand of a Queen was the final prize for the victor?
The pawner, or an assignee or purchaser of the pawn ticket may redeem it within the time fixed by law or agreement, or even beyond the agreed time if the pawnee has not exercised his right of sale.
I had his diamond pin inpawn for seventy-five dollars, and another little fellow owed me eighteen dollars, or something like that, and I wanted him to pay me.
In order to raise money for this expedition he had to sell or pawn all the valuables he owned, but his ambition was aroused and he never doubted that "the game was worth the candle.
What was this life she had dared to trifle with--this man she had dared to treat as a mere pawn in her own game?
In London the agricultural labourer, of whom she had heard much, had been to her as a pawn in the game of discussion.
Most noble lord, Pawn me to this your honour, she is his.
The following morning we visited a pawn broker's shop and there in the window, hanging on a line, was my watch.
She was still a Spanish colony, and she was still a potentialpawn in the international games of diplomacy and war.
But she had no idea that she was only a pawn in a game that was being played by others.
It was his sheet-anchor in all the mental storms through which he had passed; but if in throwing his life into pawn he had pawned his honour at the same time what was there left to him that was worth possessing?
Over a century later it was restored, but suffered eclipse after the Thirty Years' War, was even in pawn for several years, and did not quite retrieve its fallen fortunes until after the coup d'etat of 1918.
If we stay here very long," said Rachel, still addressing her father, "I guess we should have to pawn our watches.
You will have to remain here in pawn till I go and sing you out.
But, lad, this Post is only a pawn in the game I am playing.
The Bishop of Kaminieck and Culm Lends money on the pawn of land and serfs.
That was because of the Mecklenburgh land, Which he held inpawn from the emperor's hand.
So you master the militant possibilities of Queen and Pawn without perplexing complications.
He will, let us say, give you King, Queen, and Pawn placed out in careless possible positions.
When John complained of want of ready-money to carry on his suit, they advised him to pawn his plate and jewels, and that Mrs. Bull should sell her linen and wearing clothes.
Mortgage thy manor of Bullock's Hatch, or pawn thy crop for ten years.
The pawncannot move backwards nor sideways, but only forward along the "file" on which he stands.
Is to give up a piece or pawn for another of equal value.
The approximate value of the pieces, as they stand on their respective squares at the beginning of a game, is estimated to be as follows: Taking the pawn as unit, the value of the Knight is 3.
The Rook (or Castle) moves upon straight lines only, in a horizontal or vertical direction, to any square not occupied by any piece or pawn of its own colour.
White is a pawn ahead, and if he had the move, would win with 1.
Strictly speaking, it is not a Gambit, the pawn not being sacrificed.
Unlike any other piece, it may leap over any piece or pawn of its own or the opposite colour intervening between {341} its starting-point and the square to which it moves.
The Pawn not being re-taken, as in the Scotch Game, constitutes the Scotch Gambit.
A counter-gambit is where the second player sacrifices a pawn with a similar object.
A pawn is said to be "passed" when there is no pawn of the opposite colour which can bar its progress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
