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  • A goodly collection of pawntickets, forming a very instructive octavo volume, represented all the gold, silver, and jewelry.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • The bags were found to contain, among jewelry and other things that were apparently the proceeds of robberies, a number of pawntickets calling for stickpins, watches and other articles which the police lieutenant at the desk announced would be looked up by some of his men.

    The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room Allen Chapman

  • Had the lid been raised, a caller might have seen in the tray, among the remnants of a once elaborate wardrobe, one little token that told at once the whole miserable story -- a bundle of pawntickets!

    The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life Eugene Walter 1907

  • A goodly collection of pawntickets, forming a very instructive octavo volume, represented all the gold, silver, and jewelry.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • A goodly collection of pawntickets, forming a very instructive octavo volume, represented all the gold, silver, and jewelry.

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Finot’s estimation; for Finot has a lively sense of benefits to come, and that sort of gratitude is better than any kind of pledge, pawntickets always excepted, for they invariably represent something solid.”

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • "After the extra performance I gave to-day at the broadcasting station, I dropped in at the police station and had a look at some of the loot the police had gathered up on the strength of the pawntickets.

    The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room Allen Chapman

  • (This is part of the dismal magic of pawntickets which some grown-up will kindly explain to you.) "I can't get money by the sweat of my brow," said Dickie to himself; "nobody would let me run their errands when they could get a boy with both legs to do them.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • Finot's estimation; for Finot has a lively sense of benefits to come, and that sort of gratitude is better than any kind of pledge, pawntickets always excepted, for they invariably represent something solid. "

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Finot's estimation; for Finot has a lively sense of benefits to come, and that sort of gratitude is better than any kind of pledge, pawntickets always excepted, for they invariably represent something solid. "

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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