certificate of character
Example Sentences
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The police first refused to give Stephen the usual "certificate of character" that most travelers carry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately the part of the press of the country representing special privileges, which has always denounced and caricatured Mr Ford, gives him a certificate of character and with open arms welcomes him to its ranks.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is the certificate of character which she takes as guarantee of happiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the officer, still warm from his baptism of fire, truly replied that he could not give a certificate of character.
From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn
If, therefore, a woman stood in need of a certificate of character, all that was necessary was to say that she lived there.
From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Walter, Eugene
