Do we say receipted or reseated

receipted 34 occurrences

As each pack was delivered one of my men receipted the ticket and returned it.

The Indians did not seem to understand the import of this; a few of them pretended to have lost their tickets; and as they could not get paid without them, my assistant, who had duplicates of every ticket, furnished them with receipted copies, after examining their packs.

Three or four who had thus acted presented themselves twice for payment, producing first the receipted ticket, afterwards the one they claimed to have lost, demanding pay for both.

The matter may have stood over till it was forgotten, and the mason, whose receipted bill shews that he was paid for the stone, may have used it for some other purpose.

In one hand he fluttered a packet of receipted freight bills, and he spoke as one in an evil dream.

You will find enclosed the doctor's certificate, the coroner's report, and the undertaker's bill paid and receipted.

He signed manifests, received money, receipted for it, felt of surcingles, tightened them, swore at the boys who were teasing the camels, kicked Ali whenever he came within reach, and in every way played the rôle of the business man of the desert.

All private property taken for military use should be paid or receipted for; pillage and waste should be treated as high crimes; all unnecessary trespass sternly prohibited, and offensive demeanor by the military toward citizens promptly rebuked.

There isthere is nothing of importance in them; only receipted bills and such.

In the course of the preparation of the wire several improvements occurred to me of an economical character, in which Mr. Chase cheerfully concurred, although at a considerable loss to him of labor contracted for; so that my wire has been prepared at a cost of $551.25, which is receipted in full, instead of $1010, producing an economy of $458.75.

Then I called the Doctor and gave him his money and he receipted me.

They are invariably too glad to purchase release at the price of a bill receipted.

I put the receipted bill with them, and enclosed the whole packet in another envelope, and addressed it to Lady Grenellen.

Not only were there no keys to be found, but not a coin, nor a scrap of papersave only the receipted bill of the overnight dinner.

I was asked to look over his papers, but there was not a private memorandum among themnot one; there was nothing in fact but receipted bills.

The reason they suspected him was that they found a receipted bill for fifty feet of garden hose in Ike's, the murdered man's, pocket.

It was receipted.

"Her milliner's bill, for the past year, is on my file of receipted accounts, at this moment.

" "Are you man enough, Sir," says I, taking him up short, in order to save time and words, "to get that receipted bill you spoke of just now, off the file, and to come with me at once to the milliner's shop where Mrs. Yatman deals?" He turned red in the face at that, got the bill directly, and put on his hat.

New York would find a tactful and courteous way of avoiding the semblance of an arrest or the imposition of a fine; but in thrifty Massachusetts, and in thrice thrifty Great Barrington, and in twice thrice thrifty Pittsfield, pennies count, are counted, and most conscientiously received and receipted for by those who set the wheels of justice in motion.

Suppose each had been given then and there the sixty cents he afterwards received and duly receipted for, would it have saved time and trouble?

"That's so," stammered the official of the Crossing, seeing his last chance of knowing the contents of the parcel vanish; "but I thought ez it's a valooable package, maybe ye might want to examine it to see that it was all right afore ye receipted for it.

I ought, perhaps, in strict justice, to bestow them upon some needy and deserving individual: however, to save you from debt, or a very unpleasant alternative, I will fill them in with your name, and, when you bring me all your bills receipted, I will transfer to your account the four hundred and fifty francs which I must, otherwise, have paid for your courses out of the remittance forwarded by your father for that purpose.

I feel that the wildest visions of my youth are about to be realized, and that I shall see my tailor's bill receipted before I die!"

Presently he returned with a receipted duplicate deposit slip for twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars, a little, flat check book and two hundred dollars in worn bank notes.

reseated 41 occurrences

Rustem forthwith reseated him on his throne, and did not fail to collect for the public treasury all the valuables of the three states which had submitted to his power.

As the excitement subsided and the spirits reseated themselves, looking ten years younger for that burst, another spoke.

Clara, with a lightened heart, kissed and thanked her, and accompanied by Emily left the room; Jane had risen to follow them, but catching a glimpse of the tilbury of Colonel Egerton she reseated herself.

The old woman had reseated herself near the little girl, who did not seem to understand much of what was passing round her, and who from time to time raised great calm eyes towards me.

" Pelletan carefully replaced the photograph under the statuette and then reseated himself opposite his companion.

Then he whistled, took a few turns up and down the room, and reseated himself.

" She reseated herself, and he lifted up his voice and sang.

When the Pentarchy, in 1815, had made its division of the spoils of Napoleon, the Bourbons were reseated on the throne which Louis XIV. had made famous; but Louis XVIII.

"It is just as necessary," pursued the old connoisseur, when Peter was reseated, "it is just as necessary for a gentleman to have a delicate palate for the tints of the vine as it is for him to have a delicate eye for the tints of the palette.

" Don Teodoro produced a pair of silver spectacles as he reseated himself, and proceeded to settle them very carefully on his enormous nose.

" Miss Panney, who had reseated herself, gazed earnestly at the floor.

After dinner we saw her reseated in the stage, and the black silk reticule containing the picture was upon her lap as the stage carried her homeward.

it began to be used to designate a party in the state favourable to absolute monarchy; many of these "Tories" having followed the fortunes of that prince in exile, returned with him, and being his most devoted partisans when reseated on his throne.

He met but little resistance in the provinces south of the Po, but the Swiss meanwhile arrived in great force to defend Maximilian Sforza, whom, since they had reseated him on the throne, they regarded as their vassal.

She had risen at first to receive her daughter, and had returned her child's caresses, but had then reseated herself quickly, as though anxious not to evince any strong feeling on the occasion.

She had reseated herself with her arms crossed, and there sat perfectly mute.

" "And now," said Mrs. Cliff, when they had all reseated themselves, "you must really tell us your story, captain.

Then pointing to the road, helped him on his box, and reseated himself by his side.

After the hearty congratulation on his acceptance, they reseated themselves, when Louie, in his gratitude, insisted that on pleasant occasions like this he should be permitted to offer some refreshments of a liquid nature.

On the conclusion of her song, Ellen reseated herself on the stool she had occupied at her aunt's feet, her heart too full to speak.

Presently he ceased to walk, reseated himself opposite the cavaliere, and fixed a half-absent gaze upon him.

The marchesa turned and reseated herself.

The marchesa reseated herself, raised her thin white hands, and threw up her eyes to heaven.

"That lady," he added, hastily correcting himself, and he pointed to the marchesa, who, led by the cavaliere, had reseated herself upon the sofa, looking defiance at everybody.

She reseated herself.

Do we say   receipted   or  reseated