pawnbroker

How To Use pawnbroker In A Sentence

• I once had a desk in an office that overlooked a pawnbroker.
• The safekeeping of property given to the pawnbroker is the pawnbroker's responsibility; Persfin
• BRITAIN'S biggest pawnbroker has ousted its chief executive after blaming the plunge in the gold price for a sudden drop in profits. Times, Sunday Times
• Except the pawnbroker's, the distiller's, and the undertaker's, the houses are literally ruins; but these doorkeepers to Famine, Disease, and Death, living by the calamities of others, are in a flourishing state.
• A completely different explanation comes from the old pawnbroker's sign with three brass balls. Times, Sunday Times
• I guess I'll be wanted," the pawnbroker observed, as he jerked open his shirt, tearing out the four buttons in his impetuousness and showing a Colt's .44 automatic, strapped in its holster against the bare skin of his side under his left arm, the butt of the weapon most readily accessible to any hasty dip of his right hand. CHAPTER XV
• Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months.
• Mo's ultimate destination is the home of his girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis), but first he visits Alvy (Mark Northover), a kind of pawnbroker to whom Mo wants to sell various odds and ends "borrowed" from work. Home Theater Forum
• A takeover would be difficult to orchestrate without the backing of the pawnbroker's lenders. Times, Sunday Times
• The word mons which literally means an accumulation of wealth or money, now called capital, seems to have been a generic term used in the fifteenth century to signify lending-houses in general; and hence the montes pietatis or monti di pietà were a species of charitable lending-establishments not, perhaps, unlike our modern pawnbrokers 'establishments, but possessing, of course, none of the sinister features of the latter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne