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The bearer of the stamp (tamgh) who by impressing it gave quittance for the payment of tolls and other dues.

He had earned his quittance, and in the nighttime, upon his hands and knees, he crept from the sleepers in the court.

If the thing should not come to pass, "omittance is no quittance" (ce qui est différé, n'est pas perdu).

I know he is in this wood; and he shall never leave it till he give me quittance for the injury he has done me.

For no tenant, thinks I, will be fool enough to withold payment when he may get his quittance to-morrow for half its value.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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