Before the policeman could even reply, the owner of the pawnshop had come up.
Then hup comes a man wot said as he had a pawnshop, and that inter the pawnshop had come a man and a gel ter buy a ring, and when they come hout there wor a diamond locket missing.
These others," I said to myself, thinking without passion for once of the sons of the Secure, "would find it difficult to run their romances on a pawnshop basis.
I hesitated at a pawnshop on my way home to my midday meal, but I determined not to pledge my watch until I could bring my overcoat also.
It was in a pawnshop window in the narrow High Street of Swathinglea that I found my choice, a reasonably clumsy and serious-looking implement ticketed "As used in the American army.
And then suddenly she remembered that she knew a finished expert in pawnshop work in the person of Susan Burnet.
If I went into a pawnshop near here," she said, "it would seem so odd.
He glanced quickly through the pawnshop window and made out the figure of a woman standing within among the shadows.
These she took to a pawnshop and upon them she realized something more than the sum necessary to obtain Tulitz's bondsman.
Then he flung himself on the pawnshoplike a battering ram, the howling inside, which had subsided, burst out afresh, and finally the door was broken down.
Here is a watch the pawnshop man wouldn't give me anything on, but it keeps good time, and you are welcome to it if you will take it.
He took his gun into a pawnshopand left it there for thirty-five cents.
It was quite true that he had gone to Multenius's pawnshop about five- thirty of the previous afternoon, on his own business.
They were at the pawnshop by that time, and all six trooped in at the side-entrance.
He and Lauriston waited while Zillah went into the telephone box: she felt sure that Melky and Purdie would have returned to Praed Street by that time, and she rang up Mrs. Goldmark at the Pawnshop to enquire.
And--yesterday--your expected money not having arrived, you were obliged to visit the pawnshop again?
How much money had you--in the world--when you went to the pawnshop yesterday afternoon?
But he promised to look round at the pawnshop later in the evening, to see if he could be of any use, and to give Melky a full account of his finding of the old pawnbroker.
It was half-past five o'clock of that Monday evening when Lauriston, for the second time, turned into the narrow passage which led to the pawnshop door.
Janina pondered over this, but a moment later she went to thepawnshop to redeem her bracelet and on the way bought herself an inexpensive autumn hat.
From her companions Janina had heard something about the pawnshop and she immediately went there to pawn her gold bracelet, the only one that she possessed.
Rear door of pawnshop opens into hall, and exactly opposite very short flight of stairs leading directly to doorway of Isaac's den above.
At the bottom, he opened the door leading into the rear of the pawnshop itself, and, bidding Burton follow, entered.
I'll have an alert sent out for the cab driver, and I'll have the owner of the pawnshop picked up.
As the cab shot away from the curb with the three cadets, the proprietor of the pawnshop stepped out of the doorway and watched it disappear, a puzzled frown on his face.
We come to start a pawnshop in these parts," he added.
Six stalwart young fellows entered Reichman's pawnshop at eleven-thirty in the morning.
If a pawnshop could be so easily looted, why not Tiffany's, or one of the great wholesale jewellers in Maiden Lane?
If he was a Westerner, his buying a pistol in a pawnshop was at once disrobed of its mystery; but the inconsistent elegance of his evening clothes doubled my suspicions.
But the fact that I had seen him selecting a pistol in a pawnshop rather neutralized the good opinion I was willing to form.
The Chinese pawnshop differs from those of Western nations, as it is not merely a place for the advance of money upon goods deposited, but also the receptacle for all spare valuables.
Sometimes very valuable pieces of jewellery or porcelain remain on the hands of the pawnshop keeper, and interesting objects may from time to time be procurable from his store.
As Larry neared the pawnshop with the intention of making his escape through the western stretch of the street, he saw that Old Isaac has switched on the lights; and he also saw Officer Gavegan bearing down in his direction.
He had calculated correctly and unmolested he gained the pawnshop door, passed the solemn-eyed, incurious Isaac, and entered the room behind.
But as he neared his grandmother's house all such thought was banished by Detective Gavegan of the Central Office stepping from the pawnshop and blocking the door with his big figure.
In the musty museum of a room behind the pawnshop he found Hunt and the Duchess and Old Jimmie and Barney; and also Maggie, coming down the stairway, hat and coat on and carrying a suitcase.
Her real name is Maggie Carlisle, and she used to live at a dump of a pawnshop down on the East Side run by Brainard's grandmother.
Her young figure stiffened in angered pride, and her mind was gathering hot phrases to fling at him when the door from the pawnshop began to creak open.
The safest method would be to call at the pawnshop in person; the police, and his old friends, and the Ginger Bucks would expect anything else before they would expect him to return to his grandmother's.
And the money you get from me will be honest money, too; the interest on loans made in my pawnshop is honest all right.
He turned out the light in the back room, and called to Old Isaac to darken the pawnshop proper.
He dashed into the pawnshop and into the back room.
To the police mind, now that Larry was aware he was known to be in New York, the pawnshop would obviously be the last place in which he would seek refuge or through which he would have dealings.
From the pawnshop he returned to Scab Johnny's with eight dollars in his pocket, routed out the contrite McGuffey, and carried the latter off to ham and eggs.
Ten minutes later he took his sextant under his arm and departed for a pawnshop in lower Market Street.
Might have been a student, but he thought he was a stranger because most students would know where the pawnshop was, even if they didn’t have any business there.
Hal started out to the pawnshop the policeman told him about, but when he got there he found it closed.
Hal’s explanation of his intended flight and the causes which made him want to know where the pawnshop was, brought to an end the clew which the authorities had thought would quickly locate the thief.
He had never been in a pawnshop in his life and he was nervous.
I can’t remember having used my handkerchief on the train,” said Hal, “but I do recollect now that when I came out of the pawnshop I was perspiring freely from slight nervousness and the excitement of knowing the great value of my watch.
The medal and this envelope,” went on Mr. Williams, “were found in the pawnshop which you said you had visited that night in Boston.
When you told me your story the other day you gave me the address of the pawnshopin Boston where you went to inquire about the value of your watch.
The policeman told Hal there was a pawnshop in the other end of town, but that most of the students who had to raise money that way went to Boston.
Finally he was able to say, “But I was with Hagner or with Hagner and Delvin all of the time I was in Boston, excepting during the five minutes it took me to call at the pawnshop about the watch.
He would tell them the exact facts, every detail, even his visit to the pawnshop in Boston to find out what his watch was worth.
It’s a bad practice to get into, although I never was in a pawnshop in my life, and hope I never have to go.
After I saw the Chief of Police and he gave me the medal and the envelope he went with me to the pawnshop and when I got there I recognized the address which you had given me.
Hal told him that they had heard the police were trying to locate a fellow who had asked one of them to direct him to a pawnshop yesterday.
Klein sees a pair of cuff links that instigate his admiration in a pawnshop window, and we all go in while he buys 'em.
When the pawnshop opened the next morning me and Silver was standing there as anxious as if we wanted to soak our Sunday suit to buy a drink.
Now, Miss Egerton, I am most certain Miss Jasmine wanted to hear about the pawnshop for the sake of improving her mind, and for that reason only.
She took it to a pawnshop last night, and but for me would have absolutely given it away; I was just in time to redeem it.
When at last she found the little girl just coming out of Spiller's pawnshop she laid a trembling hand on her arm.
Bridget, have you any idea which is the nearestpawnshop to this?
Is the pawnshop the sign of the three balls, Biddy?
There was no special run on the pawnshop that night.
Mary Louise repressed a smile and entered the pawnshop by the front door.
But it really proves my innocence, because if I had taken all that money of Mrs. Macgregor's I shouldn't be rushing to a pawnshop now to get a little more.
You saw me come out of that pawnshop yesterday, didn't you, Miss Gay?
With the two bundles she descended and went to a pawnshop in Houston Street, to which she had made several visits.
Her face was so beaming bright that Susan, despite her being clad in garments on which a pawnshop would advance nothing, fancied she had come with good news.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawnshop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
