You shall prepare a full quittance for the Emperor, and Mowbray-sahib shall sign it.
But, that thou mayst more easily perceive How highly I do prize this amity, Hark to a motion of eternal league, Which I will make in quittance of thy love.
For this by virtue of the said order of the King and by quittance of the abovenamed written the 5th April One thousand four hundred and eighty (milcccciiiixx) after Easter, here rendered the sum of £19 1.
Another quittance shows him to have been employed on the decorations of the château of Plessis les Tours.
I have brought thee to the bazar for quittance of mine oath; now get thee home and thwart me no more as is thy wont.
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.
Lady," saith he, "see here the quittance for your knight that was slain, and the fifth also remaineth lying on the piece of ground shent in like manner as was your own.
Now with thy dagger Nail down his tongue, and mine shall keep possession About his heart; if he but gasp, he dies; We dread not death to quittance injuries.
We therefore have great cause of thankfulness, And shall forget the office of our hand Sooner than quittance of desert and merit According to the weight and worthiness.
In that hour he avenged his father's death, and with the same blow gave quittance for the wrongs of his mother.
I told him all, whereat he stormed amain And swore he would cry quittance with the churl, 560 And, if he did deny his interest, Stab him, whatsoever did befall himself.
And he sent you order and command to that effect, signed with his accustomed signature, and quittance in all form, which quittance, duly sealed, is in my hands.
We therefore haue great cause of thankfulnes, And shall forget the office of our hand Sooner then quittance of desert and merit, According to the weight and worthinesse Scro.
All the more pleasure in receiving it," and placing a couple of gold pieces on the table, I received my quittance and change.
After a brief greeting, I told him his business was done, and handed him the quittance I had received from Hawkwood.
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.
Young Marcovich owed Young Dick two dollars, and Young Dick accepted the payment of a dollar and forty cents as full quittance of the debt.
And every hour of love, I have heard him say, pays for itself, on both sides, quittance in full.
For no tenant, thinks I, will be fool enough to withold payment when he may get his quittance to-morrow for half its value.
So I took the money and gave him a quittance for it, signing it with my false name, James Hopkins, but, reflecting on this when I left him, I wished I had not.
Those bills and acceptances you hold with Alfred's name to them, and a full quittance from you to him for all money directly or indirectly advanced to him by you and Con Staveley.
I have a signed quittance for the money at home, and have had from the time I paid the first instalment, which, as you see, was large enough to wipe off at once three-fourths of the debt.
You see we hold a quittance for half a year's rent.
That forthwith he had come to the theatre and delivered up the play, with such expressions of penitence and shame that they could not forbear to give him full quittance for his fault.
And Charlemagne he will go seek through France And quittance give him, dead or recreant.
Didn't I speir her giving him his quittance once for all that night when he rode away after they had pitten ye to bed?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quittance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
