Receipt in example sentence

in his better days, before he had become enfeebled by dissipation and emaciated by disease, he had been in the receipt of a good salary, which, if he had been careful and prudent, he might have continued to receive for some years--not many; because these men either die early, or by unnaturally taxing their bodily energies, lose, prematurely, those physical powers on which alone they can depend for subsistence.

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And that's all without any human intervention and simply activated by the receipt of an email which could be sent from anywhere in the world.

She also tells me that her father had affairs, but her mother, she found one little receipt in the pocket, and a little bit of lipstick on the collar.

That receipt was put in the police file, a copy of it was put in the prosecutor's file, and they never gave it to his public defender.

You've probably seen one of these signs in a coffee shop, which says, "If you don't get your receipt, the coffee is free."

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