"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 |
