quittance

Example Sentences

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He would 'sign on' at Liverpool, giving his boarding-master a month's advance note for quittance.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

Right easily can I find proof of quittance, and to spare.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

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

To appease a creditor meant to pay him; in the same manner as une quittance, a quittance or receipt, was originally quietantia, a quieting, from quietus, quiet.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

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