quittance

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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

Very good, then, Master Tibbald: if you will pay the Council that sum, its secretary shall make you out a note of quittance.'

From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

A happy quittance, say I. The abb� is too perilously apt with his long sword.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John