quittance

Example Sentences

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You have most learnedly proverbde it, commending the virtue of patience and forbearance, but yet you know forbearance is no quittance.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)

"Well, then, it shall be yours, if you give up all claim to the hand of Meenie Ritchie, and give me in writing an entire quittance on that score."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

“That is a quittance for the chain,” he cried.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis

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)

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