quittance
Example Sentences
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You shall prepare a full quittance for the Emperor, and Mowbray-sahib shall sign it.
From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis
There is something base In mere existence—something in the face Of men and women which accepts the earth, And all its havings, as its right of birth, But not its quittance, not its resting-place.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric
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)
The abbot, having adopted this good counsel, gave to the King one hundred pounds for such a quittance.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de
He saith Aubrey sent the money by a messenger, unto whom he gave the quittance.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
