quittance

Example Sentences

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When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives, And sheds his outworn life, as trees their leaves, Full gladly will he sift this world away, Ere dustmen sift his ashes in their sieves.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

After a brief greeting, I told him his business was done, and handed him the quittance I had received from Hawkwood.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

Of course Herr Simon will require from these heirs a receipt for the sum handed them, and a quittance of all further claims.

From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph

I placed the cross back slowly, my honour was still white, and death that was coming would give me a full quittance for all my troubles.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

But "legal tender" money is not always an adequate means of quittance.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.