quittance
Example Sentences
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We have disregarded our oaths; upon her head be our perfidy; receive her in quittance of our debt to thee.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
To appease a creditor meant to pay him; in the same manner as une quittance, a quittance or receipt, was originally quietantia, a quieting, from quietus, quiet.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
In the first place, the quittance for our board and lodging.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
We will acknowledge your title as good, and we will demand of you quittance for the above sum, which you will grant us as king of France.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
The deputy turned over his charge to him, received his quittance, and went away.
From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by Sage, William
