Receipt in example sentence

Everything the good man said was full of affection, and I could hardly refrain from tears while he spoke; in short, I took one hundred of the moidores, and called for a pen and ink to give him a receipt for them: then I returned him the rest, and told him if ever I had possession of the plantation I would return the other to him also (as, indeed, I afterwards did); and that as to the bill of sale of his part in his son’s ship, I would not take it by any means; but that if I wanted the money, I found he was honest enough to pay me; and if I did not, but came to receive what he gave me reason to expect, I would never have a penny more from him.

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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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