quittance

Example Sentences

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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

We will acknowledge your title as good, and we will demand of you quittance for the above sum, which you will grant us as king of France.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin

We have disregarded our oaths; upon her head be our perfidy; receive her in quittance of our debt to thee.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

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

Right easily can I find proof of quittance, and to spare.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene