quittance

Example Sentences

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It was only by being a valuable object, and commonly only by being a medium of exchange, that the money could have become a means of legal quittance in the first place.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

I have been with the governor, who is full of rejoicing at this unexpected quittance of the Bruce and his host of wolves.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

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

The abbot, having adopted this good counsel, gave to the King one hundred pounds for such a quittance.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de

Having paid quittance, he was at liberty to be absorbed in his books.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend