quittance

Example Sentences

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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

"Well, then, it shall be yours, if you give up all claim to the hand of Meenie Ritchie, and give me in writing an entire quittance on that score."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

There is something base In mere existence—something in the face Of men and women which accepts the earth, And all its havings, as its right of birth, But not its quittance, not its resting-place.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

Whatever gives legal quittance from contract obligation, or from legal obligation as for taxes, performs this function.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

“That is a quittance for the chain,” he cried.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis