They were seeking a quittance from the mortgage so they sold the house to pay off the loan. From LearnThat.org.
Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed. From Wordnik.com. [The second part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
But for him we had no doubt got a short quittance from. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Hereat the brewer did wonder, and desired to see the quittance. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
Thou shalt pay, be well assurèd, heavy quittance for thy pride. From Wordnik.com. [Agamemnon] Reference
And will any way when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
If this is right, please let me have a formal receipt and quittance. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
"We shall take him when he brings quittance," Lord-One Krip returned. From Wordnik.com. [Flight in Yiktor]
The guerdon; the quittance; could it be possible after all, the end was not far?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
They come very easily these quarrels, but the quittance from them is sometimes terribly difficult. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
I already paid mine safely via his mailbox and hope that he delivers my quittance in the same fashion. From Wordnik.com. [nebet Diary Entry] Reference
In that hour he avenged his father's death, and with the same blow gave quittance for the wrongs of his mother. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
I am so deep in his counsel that he has my quittance, for I have full assurance that he never dreamed of such a deed. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Let no absurd talk about quittance, discharge, remuneration, payment, induce the holder to relax from his inflexible purpose of palm. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
"The messenger lost not the quittance," said Hans. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
His last faint quittance rendering with his breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3] Reference
Thou shalt pay, be well assured, heavy quittance for thy pride. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
If the thing should not come to pass, "omittance is no quittance". From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
I beg that you will give me this quittance, for it may serve me. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentleman of France] Reference
In return you've given Farmer Small a quittance for the entire year. From Wordnik.com. [Unforseen Return] Reference
And the soldier, being trusted, writes his quittance with his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.] Reference
Having paid quittance, he was at liberty to be absorbed in his books. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
He must have legal purgation, discharge, release from custody, quittance. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
The business, as it turned out, was merely to give him quittance of a loan. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty Wesley] Reference
Therefore, in spite of his legal quittance, he still was held in captivity. From Wordnik.com. [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference
Yet it was his sense of fairness that made him write, as a sort of quittance. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
Achaeans, in quittance whereof ye now work me harm out of evil hearts, and spur on these men. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Government as the price of a full release and quittance of all Imperial claims upon the colony. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference
And every hour of love, I have heard him say, pays for itself, on both sides, quittance in full. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
Another quittance shows him to have been employed on the decorations of the château of Plessis les Tours. From Wordnik.com. [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference
'Sir,' she answered in a broken voice, 'I will not give you this quittance, nor any quittance from me while I live.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentleman of France] Reference
He had earned his quittance, and in the nighttime, upon his hands and knees, he crept from the sleepers in the court. From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
Then Robert returned to the monastery, with a quiet joy in his heart; and he made a quittance of the estate, and sent it secretly to the. From Wordnik.com. [Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset] Reference
When he pleaded that King John had given him a charter of quittance, he was told that its force had ended with the death of the grantor. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference
He saw one of the infuriated mutineers heave the third officer's body overboard -- a final quittance for some injury previously received. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Kansas] Reference
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