1 Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.
2 She read me what she had written; and it was direct and clear, and evidently intended to absolve me from any suspicion of profiting by the receipt of the money.
3 I had had load enough upon my mind before the receipt of this strange letter.
4 For I really had not been myself since the receipt of the letter; it had so bewildered me, ensuing on the hurry of the morning.
5 Enclosed in the letter was a receipt for the debt and costs on which I had been arrested.
6 I had never dreamed of Joe's having paid the money; but Joe had paid it, and the receipt was in his name.
7 You shall not be oppressed by the receipt of favours, Miss Trotwood.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING 8 I went out of my senses immediately; became a mere driveller next day, on receipt of a little lace-edged sheet of note-paper, 'Favoured by papa.'
9 Not even known to be gone until receipt of message, importing that her return was not to be expected for the present.
10 Sir Thomas set off, Edmund would go with him, and the others had been left in a state of wretchedness, inferior only to what followed the receipt of the next letters from London.
11 Mr. Bumble produced some silver money rolled up in paper, from his pocket-book; and requested a receipt: which Mrs. Mann wrote.
12 A day or two after the receipt of the money Thomasin had sent a note to her aunt to thank her.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 13 Even the receipt of Clym's letter would not have stopped her now.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 14 Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and handed it to him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 15 A salute of twenty-four guns was fired on receipt of good news from Washington, and a dress parade took place at headquarters.