Sculpture and sewing, calls and crayons, Ruskin and receipt-books, didn't work well together, and poor Psyche found duties and desires desperately antagonistic.

The churchwardens and overseers of the poor accounts, especially in London and the larger cities, abound with receipt items of gifts from great personages or wealthy merchants.[240]

I stamped and signed the receipt form according to unmistakable directions, and returned it to Headquarters.

If for the former purpose, the postage-stamp looks better than the receipt stamp upon blue paper.

Yussuf Dakmar's the son of a sea-cook who used to sell sheep to the Army four times overdrive 'em into camp and get a receiptdrive 'em out again next nightbring 'em back in the morning get a receipt againdrive 'em offbring 'em backus chaps too busy shifting brother Turk to cotton on.

When any money is paid to the county treasurer, excepting that paid on taxes charged on duplicate, the treasurer shall give, to the person paying the same, duplicate receipts therefor, one of which such persons shall forthwith deposit with the county auditor, in order that the county treasurer may be charged with the amount thereof.

I fetched my receipt file and turned over the papers in leisurely fashion while he gnawed his lips with impatience.

Wise leeches will not vain receipts obtrude, While growing pains pronounce the humours crude: Deaf to complaints, they wait upon the ill, Till some safe crisis authorise their skill.

On its arrival it was found that the barometer, on whose receipt reliance had been placed, had not been completed in time, and although, as was learnt afterwards, it had been committed as soon as finished by the maker to the care of Major Graham, the other commissioners felt compelled to set out before he had joined them.