certificate of character
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That is the certificate of character which she takes as guarantee of happiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There, having retained perfect powers of using her mother-tongue, and also speaking German fluently, she had all but got a good teachership in a school, only she had no certificate of character.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
But at this precise point, where they are really of use, Mr. Mozley excludes the affections and demands a miracle as a certificate of character.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
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