"Quittance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little longer waiting. All's well! Her high hereditary Majesty smiled on me when she gave Leicester conge and fiery quittance. She hath me in favour, and all shall be well with Michel and Angele. O fool, fool, fantastic and flavoured fool, sing me a song of good content, for if this business ends not with crescendo and bell-ringing, I am no butler to the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... dear, now, To stir desire for old fond purposings, By feints that Time still serves for dallyings, Though quittance nears? ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy
... and redoubted Burgundy, By whose approach the regions of Artois, Wallon and Picardy are friends to us, This happy night the Frenchmen are secure, Having all day caroused and banqueted: Embrace we then this opportunity, As fitting best to quittance their deceit Contriv'd by ...
— King Henry VI, First Part • William Shakespeare [Aldus edition]
... let us hold him to ransom, and take freely of his cities and walled places, in return for his life." They, therefore, slew not the king but binding him fast with fetters of iron, kept him close in bonds for so long a space that he swore to render them all that they would. In quittance of his ransom, and to come forth from prison, Vortigern granted Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex to Hengist as his fief, besides that earldom of Kent which he had held before. To remember this foul treason, knives were long ...
— Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut • Wace |
