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Updated: June 17, 2025
A famous female poet was reduced to pawning her best sonnet for a glass of lemonade and a bun. "Times were no less hard for the comic writer. Hitherto he had only to outrage his mother-tongue, or to debase the moral currency, to find the land ready to accord him of the fat thereof. He used to sit in a room in Fleet street and make or steal jokes in return for gold.
Don Quixote, among other things, told him he ought to be ready to go with him gladly, because any moment an adventure might occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave him governor of it. Don Quixote next set about getting some money; and selling one thing and pawning another, and making a bad bargain in every case, he got together a fair sum.
This enabled Howe to send his family home to America, and then, by selling his last model and pawning his patent rights, he raised enough money to take passage himself in the steerage in 1848, accompanied by Inglis, who came to try his fortune in the United States. Howe landed in New York with a few cents in his pocket and immediately found work.
The minster contributed to the ransom of Richard I., pawning a golden cross which Roger had given. The cross was afterwards redeemed. Roger was succeeded, after an interval of ten years, by Geoffrey, the bastard son of Henry II. He quarrelled continually with John, who on one occasion fined the city of York £100 for omitting to meet him when he visited the city.
The French were fitting out no volunteer army that I could get on the track of, and nobody was paying the passage of fighting men. The end of it was that, after pawning my revolver and my top-boots, the only valuable possessions I had left, to pay for my lodging, I was thrown on the street, and told to come back when I had more money.
Then I starved a little." "With a ring on your finger you could have pawned for ten guineas!" "Pawn my ring! My father gave it me." She kissed it tenderly, yet, to Vizard, half defiantly. "Pawning is not selling, goose!" said he, getting angry. "But I must have parted with it." "And you preferred to starve?" "I preferred to starve," said she, steadily. He looked at her. Her eyes faced his.
The duke has not answered. Prudence is pawning my things again. I have been spitting blood all the time. Oh, you would be sorry for me if you could see me. You are indeed happy to be under a warm sky, and not, like me, with a whole winter of ice on your chest.
The poor Count has done me many a good turn in his time, and I will do my best, though I do not exactly see what more I can do, at such short notice." "Have you got anything worth pawning, Herr Schmidt?" asked Vjera, ruthless, as devoted people can be when the object of their devotion is in danger. "Well I have not much that I can spare.
What! you have lived in Paris for twenty-nine years; you saw the Revolution of July, you did, and you have never so much as heard tell of a pawnbroker a man that lends you money on your things? I have been pawning our silver spoons and forks, eight of them, thread pattern. Pooh, Cibot can eat his victuals with German silver; it is quite the fashion now, they say.
I conclude the four bones meant the arms and legs. If so it would have been more to the point had he blessed the fifth the skull. Jenny came in and found him gloating over his virtuous shillings. She stared. Jenny was glad to hear this, very glad, but she scolded him well for pawning his hat.
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