"Acquittance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... passed through my grating; as he also did a piece of small wax candle, some burning amadone (a kind of tinder), a match, and a pen. I now had light, and I pricked my finger, and wrote with my blood to my faithful friend, Captain Ruckhardt, at Vienna, described my situation in a few words, sent him an acquittance for three thousand florins on my revenues, and requested he would dispose of a thousand florins to defray the expenses of his journey to Gummern, only two miles from Magdeburg. Here he was positively to be on the 15th of August. About noon, on this same day, he was to walk with a letter in his hand; ...
— The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Vol. 2 (of 2) • Baron Trenck
... that I may by mean of thy prayer Of your son's glory to be partiner. By the mean of his passion I it crave; I beseek you help me my soul to save. Knowledge, give me the scourge of penance, My flesh therewith shall give acquittance; I will now begin, if God give ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley
... sir," added mine host, "I would take leave to remind your grandeur that the score of last night's supper, and a trifle my lord took for his breakfast, with the shoeing and meat of the horse, and the price of your night's lodging, awaits your noble acquittance." ...
— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed
... money, which his father had owed him by a note under his own hand, while he led a lewd debauched life, saw the ghost of his father one night, upon this very account, which told him of the money being paid, and where the acquittance lay. When he got up in the morning, he went and found the acquittance in that very place that his father's ghost had directed him to, and so was freed from the litigious suit of one that made unjust demands ...
— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey
... been duly authorized, a receipt from him for any subsequent rent is a legal acquittance to the tenant, notwithstanding the landlord may have revoked the authority under which the agent acted, unless the landlord should have given the tenant due and ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous |
