note of hand
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of note of hand
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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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 Adolph Streckfuss
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
For what was requisitioned they obtained, if they insisted, a note of hand, often scribbled in pencil and almost illegible, but at least proving they had been deprived of something.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
“His first note of hand to me is due next month.”
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
He mingled now with those within whose veins The blood ran pure—the magnates of the land— Hail'd them as his companions and his friends, And lent them money and his note of hand.
From Fanny With Other Poems by Fitz-Greene Halleck
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