"Quittance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the little peddler, reaching out and grasping my hand, "here's full quittance for that pannikin o' water as you never got! ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... know them, whereby thou shalt sell and buy and take and give with them; nor will it be long ere thou become a man of money." Accordingly, on the morrow he gave him a thousand dinars and a suit of clothes and a black slave and mounting him on a she-mule, said to him, "Allah give thee quittance of responsibility for all this,[FN29] inasmuch as thou art my friend and it behoveth me to deal generously with thee. Have no care; but put away from thee the thought of thy wife's misways and name her not to any." "Allah requite thee with good!" replied Ma'aruf and rode ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... board and we sailed that night, and I never saw him or the child again. He sent me money regular till I asked for the fifteen hundred pounds and signed a quittance for the annuity like a ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence
... time prescribed by the law being expired, the horse was put up for sale; my master employed a friend to bid for it, and it was knocked down to him for five hundred reals, though well worth twelve or thirteen hundred. Thus one thief obtained payment of the debt which was not due to him, the other a quittance of which he had no need, and my master became possessed of the horse, which was as fatal to him as the famous Sejanus[62] was to ...
— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... Hopeless, not heartless, strive and struggle yet,— Ah! now they fight in firmest file no more, Hemmed in—cut off—cleft down—and trampled o'er, But each strikes singly, silently, and home, And sinks outwearied rather than o'ercome, His last faint quittance rendering with his breath, Till the blade glimmers in ...
— Three Years in the Federal Cavalry • Willard Glazier
... seven million five hundred thousand little bells of his plebiscite, the man of the coup d'etat reflects at times; he catches vague glimpses of a tomorrow, and struggles against the inevitable future. He must have legal purgation, discharge, release from custody, quittance. He exacts it from the vanquished, and at need puts them to the torture, to obtain it. Louis Bonaparte knows that there exists, in the conscience of every prisoner, of every exile, of every man proscribed, a tribunal, ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo
... there is a quarrel. The father, anxious only for his son's good, looks into that son's future with other eyes than those of his son himself,—and so there is a quarrel. They come very easily, these quarrels, but the quittance from them is sometimes terribly difficult. Much of thought is necessary before the angry man can remember that he too in part may have been wrong; and any attempt at such thinking is almost beyond ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... his ransom and that he was released from any further obligation concerning it. That is the only release, however, which the unfortunate Inca ever got. Obviously, it was dangerous to turn loose such a man. Therefore, in spite of his legal quittance, he still was held in captivity. The Spaniards concluded finally that the only safe course was to get ...
— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... continued the pitiless churl; "for if thy quittance be not forthcoming, and that in haste, I'll turn thee and thy brats into the moor-dikes, where ye may live upon turf and ditch-water if it ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby |
