quittance
Example Sentences
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Right easily can I find proof of quittance, and to spare.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
Having paid quittance, he was at liberty to be absorbed in his books.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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)
I have been with the governor, who is full of rejoicing at this unexpected quittance of the Bruce and his host of wolves.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
He would 'sign on' at Liverpool, giving his boarding-master a month's advance note for quittance.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.