pawnbroker's shop

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pawnbroker's shop - a shop where loans are made with personal property as security

loan office, pawnshop

shop, store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"

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At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known.

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So I dived into a pawnbroker's shop, where I was a stranger only upon my present errand, and within the hour was airing a decent if antiquated suit, but little corrupted by the pawnbroker's moth, and a new straw hat, on the top of a tram.

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The new address was a cellar dive, whose proprietor said that he had never heard of Duane; but after he had put Jurgis through a catechism he showed him a back stairs which led to a "fence" in the rear of a pawnbroker's shop, and thence to a number of assignation rooms, in one of which Duane was hiding.

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Hitchcock was right, and on November 17, 1877, Rande showed up at the pawnbroker's shop on Vine Street.

The brilliant and daring bandit of the Wabash: this Midwestern shootist's saga rivals the most exciting and bloody legends of the Old West

A BURGLAR was chased and caught by police after a roof-top raid on a pawnbroker's shop.

BURGLAR'S ROOF-TOP RAID; PS9k haul of phones taken from shop

Enough to make sure he doesn't have to find him in football's equivalent of a pawnbroker's shop.

TIGERS MUST STOP PAWN OBSESSION

He depicted a pawnbroker's shop in Drury Lane in 1835 in his masterpiece David Copperfield: "It is a low, dirty-looking, dusty shop, the door of which stands always doubtfully, a little way open: half inviting, half repelling the hesitating visitor."

Dickensian trade's revival; InsideView

SMASH AND GRAB: The bus is wedged inside the pawnbroker's shop in Trinity Street.

LOOTING SCUM HAVE SHAMED OUR CITY; Council leader: Catch 'despicable scumbags' Shop the scum who have shamed city'

"He then settled in Wednesbury in the West Midlands and named his house 'Balaclava House'; he also opened a pawnbroker's shop in Union Street.

Hero who survived the Valley of Death; Firsthand account by Midland soldier tells of legendary act of heroism and folly... Charge of the Light Brigade

Three charity shops and one pawnbroker's shop. This is not the way to sell Cardiff.

Give bus station a fresh new look; Yousay IN YOUR OPINION..

They hung around in a pawnbroker's shop but lost their nerve.

The Unseen; TALES FROM THE PAST

Bidding for the gun begins on January 30 in an online auction hosted by a pawnbroker's shop in Illinois.