Pawned

Examples

• Tell Sergeant Cuff, he rejoined, that I say the discovery of the truth depends on the discovery of the person who pawned the Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She took to drinking, left off working, sold the furniture, pawned the clothes, and played old Gooseberry. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What comes of it doesn't matter to you and me except as it may help us to lay our hands on the mysterious Somebody who pawned the Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The man who had pawned his goods in London, and had reached New York with less than a dollar in his pocket, had an income of $200,000 a year. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There is a chance--to say the least--that the person who pawned it, may be prepared to redeem it when the year's time has expired. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If you will have it, Rachel--scandal says that the Moonstone is in pledge to Mr. Luker, and that I am the man who has pawned it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You have pawned your wardrobe. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He pawned his patent and his last machine, and procured money to return to New York, where he arrived penniless in 1849. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

Edited by Arnold