quittance
Example Sentences
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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
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
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)
It was only by being a valuable object, and commonly only by being a medium of exchange, that the money could have become a means of legal quittance in the first place.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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
