Paraguay will not pawn its daily bread to dance the blind waltz of the warlords.

The recession's forcing people to pawn their stuff.

- Vince, what? Why did you invite me here if you were just going to pawn me off on your friend?

then one of our embassy secretaries is murdered abroad, for reasons mysterious and monetary...[59] And now, if this old pawnbroker was killed by one of her clients, it follows that he is a man of higher society—because peasants do not pawn gold objects—and what, then, explains this licentiousness, on the one hand, in the civilized part of our society?

This woman was Lizaveta Ivanovna, or simply Lizaveta, as everyone called her, the younger sister of that same old woman, Alyona Ivanovna, widow of a collegiate registrar,[40] the money-lender whom Raskolnikov had visited the day before to pawn his watch and make his trial...He had long known all about this Lizaveta, and she even knew him slightly.