note of hand
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of note of hand
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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Perhaps, if you had had strength and spirits enough, you would have felt offended by my offering a note of hand, or rather expressed it.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
"A note of hand, and without security, I believe."
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
His creditors, hitherto most patient, besieged him, and in one case, where he had imprudently given his note of hand, he was threatened with a complaint to be lodged with his commanding officer.
From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph
The bundle of bank-notes which Herr von Osternau had returned to it on the previous day, after giving the note of hand to the Candidate, was gone.
From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph
The Bible; New use of a note of hand; The Ship of Death; Taste in tombstones; Tennyson's Word-painting, 573.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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