quittances

En plus du Website Pro Day, je propose de tenir début janvier le World Wide Paperwork and Administrivia Day, consacré à régler ces histoires de paperasses j'ai des tas de quittances à trier et à envoyer à ma comptable, par exemple une fois pour toutes.

World Wide Paperwork and Administrivia Day (WoWiPAD) and Website Pro Day (WPD) — Climb to the Stars 2007

The quittances which the Mayor of Meudon had exacted from him before he would issue the necessary safe-conducts placed the whole of his future, perhaps his very life, in jeopardy.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

House at San Francisco, a porter wheeling a truck broke through a queue of us waiting to obtain our quittances, with the careless warning, "Out of the way, fellers!"

Roving East and Roving West 1903

[On the outside:] N'oubliez pas de demander des quittances, et donnez-moi aussi vite que possible des nouvelles.

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Wallace, Lady 1866

They work for him, cultivate his ground, do his carting, pay him quittances, so much for house, so much per head for cattle, so much to inherit or to sell; he is compelled to support his troop.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest;' -- and one hopes he never got satisfied in this world; one almost hopes he was one of those beleaguered Jews who hanged themselves in York Castle shortly afterwards, and had his usances and quittances and horseleech papers summarily set fire to!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest;' -- and one hopes he never got satisfied in this world; one almost hopes he was one of those beleaguered Jews who hanged themselves in York Castle shortly afterwards, and had his usances and quittances and horseleech papers summarily set fire to!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

He could bleed and shave the sconce; draw out bonds and quittances; thus uniting three of the professions in his own proper person.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

[On the outside:] _N'oubliez pas de demander des quittances, et donnez-moi aussi vite que possible des nouvelles.

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 Ludwig van Beethoven 1798

What other language can be used when we find that they called the sun _l'aimable éclairant le plus beau du monde, l'epoux de la nature_, and that when speaking of an old gentleman with grey hair, they said, not as a joke, but seriously, _il a des quittances d'amour_.

The Pretentious Young Ladies 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647