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
And further I had stored away in my mind a few blades from "Leaves of Grass" that I purposed to bring out at the right time as a sort of certificate of character.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert
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 De Morgan, William Frend
