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    1. He had been merely a pawn in a very long standing game of emotional chess between the super sophisticated Tatania and David


    2. In the end Terry was forced to pawn his earrings and to buy a pub


    3. the end Terry was forced to pawn his earrings and to buy a pub


    4. Sometimes it seems to Maggie that he cares more for his Glaswegian protégés than he does for her, but she lets it go, preferring to move another pawn into position


    5. A private was a mere pawn in an institution where shit ran downhill so he was constantly covered in the stuff


    6. She had nothing she could sell or pawn,


    7. Ze same demon prinz that abducted you vaile you vere figure-zkating in Montreal, vaiped your mind using reruns of Bonanza, and turned you into his unvilling pawn


    8. He would not allow himself to fall for such tricks of the soul, and his wary eye would be on the lookout for signs that would expose this man as a pawn of the archenemies


    9. The Castigator was another pawn


    10. I hadn’t reckoned on two clever men, each making me the pawn in a game he played

    11. He hobbled by a pawn shop with large selections of blades and


    12. between the weapon store and a pawn brokers


    13. “It’s about an underpaid actor lying on a slab in the morgue because you chose to use him as an expendable pawn in your war with the Russian Mafia


    14. He pulls out a long sword and starts cutting his black pawn


    15. The pawn lays on the ground bleeding


    16. What did I do to deserve this?” The pawn asks while he falls to the ground in pain and begins bleeding


    17. “Don’t call your army now, you told the bishop he can beat the pawn because he was bigger


    18. Jaden looks at the chess game, and sees his king lying on the ground being kicked by the white knight, king and pawn


    19. That pawn is tea bagging the queen into the lava,” Jaden chuckles while the pawn loses balance and falls in, “Oh my, that was hilarious


    20. The pawn represents a commoner, and is limited and predictable, but can do

    21. It is the pawn who survives, is freely charitable, lives with realistic goals, and


    22. It is the pawn who goes to


    23. Only when a pawn assumes the role of the powerful,


    24. pawn, and remembers who they are


    25. When a pawn does not have the support of family and friends, it is abandoned


    26. Unless a pawn who assumes the role of


    27. remains a pawn, that person becomes that piece


    28. the idiotic boot this Comm Unit was trying to pawn off on her [see below]


    29. I did check New London pawn shop later to see if any of my stolen jewelry was still there


    30. And the 7 same color pawn

    31. I started with a Ruy Lopez opening, moving the pawn to e4


    32. only a pawn in the game of kings


    33. traitor, but then again he was only a pawn in the game of kings


    34. And, aside from his medals, he was just another pawn in the Imperial war-machine


    35. ‘What about Athene, was she just a pawn in this as well?’ Her eyes gazed deeply at Sorus’s as he went about his planning, studying and searching for any sign of deceit in the man, next they rested on Barrad


    36. I drove to a pawn shop near-by


    37. I thought for a minute and thought of one last pawn shop to try, but it was on the other side of town


    38. It took me about fifteen minutes to reach the pawn shop that I had in mind


    39. the bag was complete we went to a few pawn shops near the base


    40. Do not be a pawn of the Olympians, my dear

    41. How she would use him as a pawn


    42. But a pawn in a larger power struggle amid arcane Entities is the Daemon Lord, Guardon


    43. Fat Sal's pawn shop had been the cornerstone of Flushing Avenue for many years


    44. He kept his ear to the streets through all the lucrative contacts he gained over the years when he semi-retired from the Carvanni Family and set up his pawn shop on Flushing and Gates fifteen years ago


    45. He looked down over the chessboard, and took the white Pawn with the black Knight before sitting down


    46. He mentally cursed the vainglorious extravagance which had put him in debt to the money-lenders and made him a pawn of scheming politicians


    47. "The alternative Sabrina was not pretty and I could not let that happen, I can no longer sit by and be a pawn to Menendez and his dog pound


    48. He had expected some difficult questions and he was going to rely on his friendship with Musab to protect them but, in the event, this protection didn’t appear to be required, and more than ever, he felt as if he was a pawn being manipulated in some mad game


    49. But by the time of the Civil War, the mansions and shops had disappeared, replaced by low-brow concert halls, brothels, German beer gardens, pawn shops, and flophouses


    50. He knew she was a mere pawn in Mr














































    1. He pawned his fine clothes, sold his gold wristwatch and hocked his patent leather shoes, until he had nothing left but his old army clothes


    2. It’s even been pawned on occasion, our diamond engagement ring, but its only glass and nine carat gold


    3. Nevertheless, my mind was all white and pawned in retaining its valued findings, if there was any, I did not understand it!


    4. To buy more drugs, he pawned his instruments and in the early 1960s spent prison time in Italy


    5. but not limited to articles to be pawned


    6. He chose not to disclose the information that he had been pawned off on Sarek by Spock because Spock had not wanted him


    7. Her first thought was that he must have gotten his hands on one of the rings that Visola pawned


    8. Pawned it for some cash


    9. " She had pawned enough jewelry and paintings so that she could have moved into a beautiful apartment, but Kate would have learned of it and would have demanded to know where the money had come from


    10. That afternoon she pawned an emerald bracelet she had been given a week earlier by an infatuated insurance executive with a wife and three children, and bought some new summer outfits at Lord & Taylor and a round-trip ticket to Nassau

    11. The idea of parents spending time with children is pawned off to baby sitters, and nannies, and schools, and extra curricular activities, and TV, and movies, and computers, and shopping


    12. Six weeks ago he had remembered the address; he had two articles that could be pawned: his father's old silver watch and a little gold ring with three red stones, a present from his sister at parting


    13. He killed an old woman, a pawnbroker, with whom he had pawned things himself


    14. "'I sought for a service again--very hard, after having a house of my own!--but he used to follow me, and kick up such a riot when he was drunk, that I could not keep a place; nay, he even stole my clothes, and pawned them; and when I went


    15. He walked the streets day after day; pawned or sold all his clothes save those he stood in, and stayed in London for six months, sometimes starving and only occasionally obtaining a few days or weeks work


    16. He was without an overcoat, it was pawned in London, and he had not yet been able to redeem it


    17. Both Easton and Ruth - whose best clothes had all been pawned to raise the money to pay the poor rate - felt very mean and shabby before them


    18. He had done for himself in the office, pawned his watch, spent all his money; and he had not even got drunk


    19. Nearly everything of any value had been parted with for the same reason - the furniture, the pictures, the bedclothes, the carpet and the oilcloth, piece by piece, nearly everything that had once constituted the home - had been either pawned or sold to buy food or to pay rent during the times when Newman was out of work - periods that had recurred during the last few years with constantly increasing frequency and duration


    20. They secretly sold or pawned their clothing and their furniture and lived in semi-

    21. ‘How dare he say I had his breeches stolen! Pawned them for drink, I expect


    22. “Believe me if it had been worth anything, I’d have pawned it already


    23. The woman took Cosette's outfit to Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs


    24. " For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora


    25. Tránsito Ariza knew that world, although this was the only time it caused her suffering in her own person, and she knew that her clients always reappeared on the eve of great parties to ask her please to dig down into her jars and lend them their pawned jewels for only twenty-four hours in exchange for the payment of additional interest


    26. I began taking our clothes one by one to the pawnbroker's ; we have been living on what we have pawned


    27. In this way the fact was established that three or four hours before a certain event, of which I shall speak later on, Mitya had not a farthing, and pawned for ten roubles a possession he valued, though, three hours later, he was in possession of thousands


    28. “Would you believe,” said the mistress of the house, suddenly addressing the prince, “would you believe that that man has not even spared my orphan children? He has stolen everything I possessed, sold everything, pawned everything; he has left me nothing—nothing! What am I to do with your IOU’s, you cunning, unscrupulous rogue? Answer, devourer! answer, heart of stone! How shall I feed my orphans? with what shall I nourish them? And now he has come, he is drunk! He can scarcely stand


    29. He possessed, it was said, a set of false teeth, and one day when he wanted money for a drinking orgy, he pawned them, and was never able to reclaim them! The officer appeared to be a rival of the gentleman who was so proud of his fists


    30. In a word he had been driven about from office to office for five months and had spent every farthing he had; his wife’s last rags had just been pawned; and meanwhile a child had been born to them and—and today I have a final refusal to my petition, and I have hardly a crumb of bread left—I have nothing left; my wife has had a baby lately—and I—I—’

    31. Many middle-class people, as it appeared afterwards, had pawned everything they had for that day, even the family linen, even the sheets, and possibly the mattresses, to the Jews, who had been settling in our town in great numbers during the previous two years and who became more and more numerous as time went on


    32. "Indeed, it is time now to have warm clothing, dear man! But yesterday I pawned my last kerchief for twenty kopeks


    33. Well, and what do you think, friend? I went and pawned the linen she herself had woven, and gave him the money


    1. Call it happiness, success, ghigh self esteem I still wanted the goods my mascquarading frinds were pawning


    2. 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


    3. The man had been without employment for many weeks and they had been living by pawning or selling their furniture and other possessions


    4. Setting up house for her time after time and then pawning the furniture on him every Saturday almost


    5. But it is a wonder that his necessity did not put him upon selling or pawning some of his jewels, that he might have wherewith to relieve himself in his journey


    6. This was Elizabeth Ivanovna, or simple Elizabeth, as all called her, the younger sister of the old woman, Alena Ivanovna, to whose rooms Raskolnikoff went the day before for the purpose of pawning his watch to make his REHEARSAL


    1. "That is all this is about after all, the Kassikan and its forty billion mortal subjects are pawns in Moamar's game


    2. ) However, the Israeli government and the Shah of Iran may still do so, and so the Kurds may still be used cynically as pawns and then die in their uprising


    3. My pawns had actually done something useful with their pathetic lives


    4. He was shocked to find out there were literally thousands of shellworlds not very much different than his own, hosting games like the one that had been using everybody on his world as unwilling, unknowing pawns


    5. Jason wondered about the current intense propaganda push, for instance, the use of children as pawns in a tick-tick ad as though the bomb of global warming was about to go off, or the fierce attempts to force children (and parents!) to see the Gore film An Inconvenient Truth, without proper scientific counterpoint


    6. We are just pawns on a chessboard that are expendable


    7. The two brothers were long questioned by the Council and Ruwana and Viktor as well, but, in the end, it was concluded that Viktor and Ruwana were nothing more than just pawns of Elena and that the two brothers were innocent


    8. These continued in obscurity used as pawns by the Chinese, Khitans, and Jurchens until they consolidated under Chingis in 1203


    9. The pawns are fighting each other


    10. Pawns and bishops from both sides are being pushed or knocked into the hot lava circling the area

    11. “Get out of here, you little ants,” Jaden yells while kicking black and white pawns into the pit of lava with his huge metal boot


    12. “In response to Cardinal George of Chicago’s reflection that it would be necessary for the church to end its financial support for an immigration ‘rights’ group that sought legalization of same-sex-marriage --- eight Illinois lawmakers recently published a statement that included their belief that the threat of funding withdrawal ‘was not worthy of the church we know, love and respect’; and further claimed that the Cardinal was using “immigrants and those who seek to help them as pawns in a political battle


    13. Chess players don’t fall in love with the pawns, Jesse


    14. “All of you have someone, whom you can claim revenge for, from these pawns of our oppressor!” The last phrase hissed through the clenched teeth of the anger that he sought to instill in them


    15. Saeed used him and Cristal as pawns ever again


    16. pawns have moved into place for the plan


    17. ‘Anak’s magic was ingrained into their tattoos and has slowly dragged the Su-Katii under the wing of the Brotherhood’s control, making them their pawns in bringing about this war


    18. “Didn’t you feel it-the darkness gathering, the monsters growing stronger? Didn’t you realize how useless it all is? All the heroics-being pawns of the gods


    19. Nations were moved like pawns on a chess board to fulfill the Master Plan


    20. If only the soldiers would learn they are simply pawns in the profit-making intrigues of big business

    21. If men realised they are but pawns in the game of sex and procreation they‘d slit their veins


    22. How could he be so careless? The thugs he attacked first were obviously just pawns


    23. I realized that Victor and I were both pawns in Pallas’s game


    24. ‘I really couldn’t say, but I’m sure that we’re all helpless pawns in some very dangerous games that are being played out somewhere, but no doubt time will tell all


    25. A F pawns who led the formation


    26. They were the expendable pawns, if


    27. any one else! They were being used as tools, pawns in a


    28. that we have used them as pawns for our own gain,


    29. How many people had died as part of the process? Of that she wasn’t exactly sure, but all deaths were meant to be in this surreal game of reality chess that saw all its pawns, and most major players, fall by the wayside, until just the queen remained supreme


    30. Does that mean that I could be snubbed as well and relegated to the tail of the procession? The Overseer and I came here to pay our respects to a worthy monarch, not to be used like political pawns by your Church

    31. trolls who were being used as his over-sized pawns


    32. I was angry that she wouldn’t tell me, and angry at my father for making her keep his secrets for so long, and using us as pawns, and not loving us


    33. “That"s when they agreed to use us as their pawns?”


    34. - children, the basis of existence, become pawns between man’s lust/woman’s love!


    35. We could be merely someone's actual pawns


    36. But I don't waste it on the pawns in this chess game that's been set up with our lives—it's reserved for the players themselves


    37. But I don't waste it on the pawns in this chess game that's been set up with our lives—it's reserved for the players, themselves


    38. with their pawns in front of the door, having fun,


    39. They treated their daughters as pawns, marrying them off as soon as they became nubile


    40. fact, it’s those who see themselves as mere pawns of other people

    41. What are small-fry like me to big hitters like Fedoseyev Yemelyanovich Saveliy? We are merely pawns in their astral-chess games


    42. It was true that Kyrosed had used many women, and many people as pawns


    43. “Are they all Pawns?” Miku asked her brother


    44. She can kill Runners, Pawns and humans (that is, if we were allowed to)


    45. I’ve fought Akons, Runners and Pawns


    46. We are pawns to be manipulated in the manner the powers that be require us to be manipulated—puppets on strings


    47. They had been unaware on October 7, 1987 that they had already been pawns in a potential catastrophe that had been avoided


    48. selves--in many cases, the snow-boarders are pawns in


    49. It is with regret also that the pawns of this game, Luthie, Ragman, and Myrt, had to be eliminated to preserve the continuity of complete secrecy


    50. Pawns on a2, b2, c2, d2, e2 and f2





















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    Synonyms for "pawn"

    pawn cat's-paw instrument hock soak dip deposit sell mortgage pledge pop spout dupe victim

    "pawn" definitions

    an article deposited as security


    a person used by another to gain an end


    (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank


    borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan


    leave as a guarantee in return for money