Example Sentences

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Does she know the physical prostration which is caused by breaking up two lumps of hard white sugar in a pawnee before a thunderstorm?

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry

But it was not true, the long brandy pawnee glasses in his study said so most emphatically.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell

"Hardly—hardly," he decided, as he mixed a brandy pawnee.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard

Comfortably installed in the Chinese chair, and refreshed with the Belatta pawnee, I proceeded to take notes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Nor has the pawnee the right to retain possession against the true owner of any article that has been pawned without his consent or authority.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney