The pawnbroker took it to the window and examined it attentively.
I might give you a dollar and a half," answered thepawnbroker composedly.
The pawnbroker took the box, and drawing out the ring held it up in the best light.
He went at once to the pawnbroker mentioned by Mrs. Graham.
But for his uniform he would have been questioned closely as to how he came by the ring; but telegraph boys are so often employed on similar errands that the pawnbroker showed no surprise.
There came the pawnbroker to swear how he sold me the knife those years ago.
The detectives are sure to discover the pawnbroker who sold it.
Some one else had entered the shop, but Meg was too absorbed and too anxious to take any heed of it The pawnbroker rolled the frock up scornfully, and gave it a push towards her.
Illustration: The pawnbroker spread out the half-worn frock, and held up the bonnet on his fist.
We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed.
At the end of half an hour me and Silver paid the pawnbroker $2,000 and walked out with the picture.
The pawnbroker smiles and goes on showing us plate watch-chains.
This unadulterated huckster or pawnbroker type is rarely keenly sympathetic in matters of social and industrial justice, and is usually physically timid and likes to cover an unworthy fear of the most just war under high-sounding names.
The pawnbroker questioned me so closely that I began to prevaricate: he called in a constable, and gave me into custody.
I fell in with a baronet and a swell cove of the name of Chichester, or Winchester, and who after all turned out to be the son of old Chichester the pawnbroker down the street here.
The jewels of half the high-born ladies in London have been deposited at different times in the hands of the very pawnbroker where yours were.
In San Francisco, many years ago, when I was a newspaper reporter (perhaps I should say I had been and was willing to be), a pawnbroker was taking care of what property I had.
The pawnbroker gave us an old derringer with a bullet as big as a hickory nut.
I come hup jest when the perleeceman and the pawnbroker were a-gripping yer.
Connie entered, and the next minute Harris was addressing the pawnbroker from whom he had stolen the locket.
The pawnbroker stared at the man; then he looked at Connie.
In that particularly improvident part of London with its floating population of struggling actors and music-hall artistes, each pawnbrokerhas thousands of chance clients, therefore recollection is well-nigh impossible.
The pawnbroker opened it, and within I saw a necklet of seed pearls and amethysts which I had seen many times around my love's throat, an old Delhi necklace which her father had bought for her when in India years ago.
The pawnbroker lived only round the corner, for like the publican he springs up wherever the conditions are favorable.
Eagerly, and with trembling hands, did Brandon toss over the motley contents of the mahogany reservoirs which the pawnbroker now submitted to his scrutiny.
The pawnbroker was impenetrable, and the lawyer was compelled reluctantly to dismiss him.
So an hour ago I slipped out the back way, and made for a safe pawnbroker I know of.
Whatever romantic element there might be in the story of the pawnbrokerand his daughters, M.
But the old pawnbroker subsequently married again to relieve his solitude, and after his death his will was attacked, and an interminable lawsuit ensued, with the result that the property was left unoccupied.
The pawnbroker made a very bad third--in fact, scarcely counted, owing to his own moroseness or reserve.
Perhaps he was not a good hand at pretences, and the pawnbroker outclassed him easily.
What would the pawnbroker lend him on that--his watch?
I am the only son of an honest pawnbroker of Shoreditch.
The three partners and the pawnbrokerwere put into the witness-box, and gave their evidence in a lame sort of way.
If Tom White's partners and the pawnbroker get their money, they may stop the case, and there'll be an end of it.
It was well no pawnbroker heard this declaration: she was too warm to consider economy.
Now, it happened that the pawnbroker was a man with social aspirations; his one ambition was to mix with the gentry, and as he possessed considerable wealth he had almost as much assurance.
There was only one thing to do: the pawnbroker must be induced to lend the plate for the occasion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawnbroker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bank; banker; broker; moneylender; mortgagee; pawnbroker; stockbroker
