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pawnbroker Noun a person licensed to lend money on goods deposited pawnbroking n
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| "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. To think that the pawnbroker shouldn't have known there was a shilling in it The life of her governess, as she calls her, who had run through, it seems, in a few years, all the eminent degrees of a gentlewoman, a whore, and a bawd; a midwife and a midwife-keeper, as they are called; a pawnbroker, a childtaker, a receiver of thieves, and of thieves' purchase, that is to say, of stolen goods; and in a word, herself a thief, a breeder up of thieves and the like, and yet at last a penitent. |
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