quittance
Example Sentences
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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 Omar Khayyam
To appease a creditor meant to pay him; in the same manner as une quittance, a quittance or receipt, was originally quietantia, a quieting, from quietus, quiet.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
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 S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
Whatever gives legal quittance from contract obligation, or from legal obligation as for taxes, performs this function.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
Of course Herr Simon will require from these heirs a receipt for the sum handed them, and a quittance of all further claims.
From Quicksands by Adolph Streckfuss
