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pawnbroker
1. Pawnbroker: If you dream of a pawnbroker, you will have success and promotion at work
2. hand, and like the old pawnbroker he was
3. But besides him being a pawnbroker, he was the ear of the streets from Brownsville to Bushwick
4. Goody Mabble the pawnbroker
5. However, much depends on the actual pawnbroker
6. In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might want to pawn anything
7. All at once he heard the student mention to the officer the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and give him her address
8. ' Of course, that's all taradiddle; he lies like a horse, for I know this Dushkin, he is a pawnbroker and a receiver of stolen goods, and he did not cheat Nikolay out of a thirty-rouble trinket in order to give it to the police
9. And if this old woman, the pawnbroker, has been murdered by someone of a higher class in society--for peasants don't pawn gold trinkets--how are we to explain this demoralisation of the civilised part of our society?"
10. pawnbroker woman," he articulated at last, almost in a whisper, bringing his face exceedingly close to the face of Zametov
11. "It was like this: I asked myself one day this question--what if Napoleon, for instance, had happened to be in my place, and if he had not had Toulon nor Egypt nor the passage of Mont Blanc to begin his career with, but instead of all those picturesque and monumental things, there had simply been some ridiculous old hag, a pawnbroker, who had to be murdered too to get money from her trunk (for his career, you understand)
12. He killed an old woman, a pawnbroker, with whom he had pawned things himself
13. "_It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed them
14. And to think that she was a pawnbroker! Well, now! Such a
15. ' Of course, that's all taradiddle; he lies like a horse, for I know this Dushkin, he is a pawnbroker and a receiver of stolen goods, and he did not cheat Nikolay out of a thirty‐rouble trinket in order to give it to the police
16. And if this old woman, the pawnbroker, has been murdered by someone of a higher class in society—for peasants don't pawn gold trinkets—how are we to explain this demoralisation of the civilised part of our society?"
17. "It was like this: I asked myself one day this question— what if Napoleon, for instance, had happened to be in my place, and if he had not had Toulon nor Egypt nor the passage of Mont Blanc to begin his career with, but instead of all those picturesque and monumental things, there had simply been some ridiculous old hag, a pawnbroker, who had to be murdered too to get money from her trunk (for his career, you understand)
18. "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister
19. So our mercurial Ladislaw has a queer genealogy! A high-spirited young lady and a musical Polish patriot made a likely enough stock for him to spring from, but I should never have suspected a grafting of the Jew pawnbroker
20. "Young Ladislaw the grandson of a thieving Jew pawnbroker" was a phrase which had entered emphatically into the dialogues about the Bulstrode business, at Lowick, Tipton, and Freshitt, and was a worse kind of placard on poor Will's back than the "Italian with white mice
21. Birnbaum looked more like an ancient New York City pawnbroker than one of the world’s acknowledged financial geniuses, a man with a reputation that had been unblemished over all his years in business
22. “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
23. “You see, Watson,” he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, “it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopaedia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day
24. This friend was Lizaveta Ivanovna, or, as everyone called her, Lizaveta, the younger sister of the old pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, whom Raskolnikov had visited the previous day to pawn his watch and make his experiment…
25. In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might 122 of 967
26. And if this old woman, the pawnbroker, has 277 of 967
27. came here on purpose to do it—for news of the murder of the old pawnbroker woman,’ he articulated at last, almost in a whisper, bringing his face exceedingly close to the face of Zametov
28. What is more, while I was in Moscow, perhaps from the very first day of my " idea," I resolved that I would not be a pawnbroker or usurer either ; there are Jews for that job, and such Russians as have neither intelligence nor character
29. what if Napoleon, for instance, had happened to be in my place, and if he had not had Toulon nor Egypt nor the passage of Mont Blanc to begin his career with, but instead of all those picturesque and monumental things, there had simply been some ridiculous old hag, a pawnbroker, who had to be murdered too to get money from her trunk (for his career, you understand)
30. ‘That I killed a vile noxious insect, an old pawnbroker woman, of use to no one! … Killing her was atonement for forty sins
31. ‘ It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed them
