The boatman Thomas White was arrested yesterday at Glistow, and will be charged before the magistrates on Saturday with fraudulently pawning the boat Martha, knowing the same to be only partially his own property.
But of course Tom White may catch it forpawning the boat.
They are going to arrest you for pawning that boat that didn't belong to you.
English thieves termpawning one’s clothes, “to sweat one’s duds.
Pawning is frequently resorted to by the women who attend each other in their confinements.
There was a good deal of pawning that morning, I know, from an eye-witness, and all to give the little children a copper or two to spend.
I am not surprised to hear of so many persons pawning their employers' property, when they are paid so badly.
Gronnow, a journeyman shoemaker, was charged with pawningeight pairs of ladies' shoes intrusted to him for making up.
That will get him--provided, of course, he's desperate enough to take the chance of pawningany of it.
Mr. Withers has told me," Bristow said, "that there was a repetition of the pawning of the jewels in Washington about a year ago.
She knew Enid was distressed and was giving away or risking in some manner large amounts of money--even pawning her jewelry, jewelry which I had given her and which she prized above everything else.
What did you think of him when he was in here pawning jewels and wearing a disguise?
Above all it would be necessary to preserve in obscurity that little mistake which had been made as to the pawning of the commission.
At this time he had heard the whole story of the pawning of the commission, had been told something of money raised by worthless cheques, and had run to ground that lie about the Goodwood races.
Picture by Quentin Matsys of Antwerp, showing a lady selling or pawningan illuminated manuscript.
With the utmost effort, and by pawning jewelry and clothes, the company gladly saw the last trace of Texas disappear over the horizon.
By pawningsome of his clothes and making other sacrifices he was able to get them off.
I have done worse than you, Harry, for I am pawning my estate, piecemeal.
Many persons in London are in the habit of pawning their apparel from Monday morning till Saturday night, when they are redeemed, in order to make a decent appearance on the next day.
Persons who are in the constant habit of pawning are generally known by the Pawnbrokers, in most instances governed by their will, and compelled to take and pay just what they please.
He didn't give you credit for pawning them outside the city, but I do.
Pawning our clothes, or what's left of them, is bad economics.
When this habit of pawningis discovered, it appears to the poor a kind of Eldorado.
But I fear that I--I shouldn't know how to set about pawning a lace petticoat even if I wanted to save myself from going hungry.
Mr. Gibb, do you mean to tell me that Miss Lindsay has been pawning her things?
But he did not wish his wife should know HOW poor: he could not bear that she should suppose him arrived at the necessity of pawning a shawl.
Day after day I saw my last few dollars leak away, and, though I replenished my thin purse at times by pawning everything pawnable I had, yet this, too, gradually oozed away.
The Irishman at Grainger’s was wont to boast that he always sold his work by pawning it.
Every circumstance, sir; the pawning the watches, and all.
It is an unfortunate business, the pawning them watches and things which you had never paid for," continued the lawyer.
On the charge of illegally pawning brought against Captain B----, M.
No matter how funny a story you make at home of pawning your Grandfather's watch, the heads of the family never see the joke.
At length he reduced himself to poverty, pawningall he had for drink.
I lost my clothes, pawning most of them to the rum-sellers, until I was unfit to be seen, so few and dirty and ragged were the garments which I could still call my own.
But it was a difficult task to force the needy nuns, reduced already to pawning the very vessels of the altar, to give up this more certain and less sacrilegious method of adding to their income.
The alienation or pawningof plate and jocalia was often resorted to in an extremity.
The sale of timber and the alienation or pawning of plate were other expedients to which the nuns constantly resorted and which were as constantly prohibited by the bishops[679].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: debt; financing; touching
