quittance

Example Sentences

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After a brief greeting, I told him his business was done, and handed him the quittance I had received from Hawkwood.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

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

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

"All the more pleasure in receiving it," and placing a couple of gold pieces on the table, I received my quittance and change.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

I placed the cross back slowly, my honour was still white, and death that was coming would give me a full quittance for all my troubles.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)