quittance

Example Sentences

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Very good, then, Master Tibbald: if you will pay the Council that sum, its secretary shall make you out a note of quittance.'

From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

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

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

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