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Also, he resumed his trips to the pawn-broker down in

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Grimshaw, whose seat in the sternsheets was none of the best, grasped the situation simultaneously with Daughtry, and, with a quick upstanding, and hooking out-reach of hand, caught the fat pawn-broker around the back of the neck, and with anything but gentle suasion jerked him half into the air and flung him face downward on the bottom boards.

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In distress, when a man has no other place to turn, when he hasn't the slightest bit of security which a savage-hearted pawn-broker would consider, he can go to some saloon-keeper he knows.

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But I think this proves they'd at least be an average pawn-broker.

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On him fell the duty of pacifying creditors at the door, and of making visits to the pawn-broker to meet the daily needs of the household.

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O'Flynn, the pawn-broker, and of honor to Mat Fleming, and then waited at the closing hour to hear the result.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Various

In the shop she bargained coolly enough with the pawn-broker, pocketed the money she fought for and as she was leaving stopped to gaze casually at the motley array of things in the dusty case.

Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

We have been so much accustomed to the Buncombe style of oratory, to hearing men offer the pledge of their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the most trivial occasions, that we are apt to allow a great latitude in such matters, and only smile to think how small an advance any intelligent pawn-broker would be likely to make on securities of this description.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

In short, she was the original pawn-broker of the world; and Judah left his treasures "in escrow" until he could redeem them by delivering her a kid in liquidation of his debt.

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Another disappointment -- not a pawn-broker to be found in Carlsruhe!

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various