quittance

How To Use quittance In A Sentence

• I did so, and Bailie Jarvie was looking anxiously around for another, the Scottish law requiring the subscription of two witnesses to validate either a bond or acquittance. Rob Roy
• It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain a quittance from the past. Les Miserables
• And every hour of love, I have heard him say, pays for itself, on both sides, quittance in full. CHAPTER XXVII
• This was a task more difficult than that of self acquittance. The Romance of the Forest
• Requirements to be met so that paid cheques do not have to be obtained from banks by public health organisations as acquittances for payment made.
• The University will provide accurate and timely acquittances to granting bodies in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in each grant contract or agreement.
• A charge very clearly made out against Peytel, is that of dishonesty; he procured from the notary of whom he bought his place an acquittance in full, whereas there were 15,000 francs owing, as we have seen. The Paris Sketch Book
• Forbearance, though it be no acquittance, is sometimes a piece of needful and laudable charity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
• If thou do this, perhaps the device will impose upon the Wazir and the people, and they will believe that thou broughtest her not to the bazar, but for the quittance of thine oath. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The generous officer would have included Mr. Jarvie and me in this general acquittance; but the Bailie, disregarding an intimation from the landlady to “make as muckle of the Inglishers as we could, for they were sure to gie us plague eneugh,” went into a formal accounting respecting our share of the reckoning, and paid it accordingly. Rob Roy