backshish

• “We were met in a friendly way by the man in charge of the telegraph posts of the district; and several Bedouins, attracted either by curiosity or the hope of a "backshish" in some shape or other, came and seated themselves around us in picturesque groups.”

  The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria

• “backshish" in the event of success, but I got no trustworthy news, "and that was the end of that hunting.”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “Abdullah would roll his eyes, look at me, and then burst out laughing, knowing that Grandmaman would give him a backshish at the end of the day for all his pains.”

  Simon & Schuster: Apricots on the Nile

• “At last they pointed out a good place for an encampment, receiving in return a trifling _backshish_, collected from the whole caravan.”

  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands

• “Mahmoud, the Janissary -- by the way it is odd that they should call this consular body-guard of one by such a name -- brought us the document, and then, of course, stood by to pocket his _backshish_.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847

• “Scenting liberal _backshish_, he promised absolute secrecy for the affair, coupled with soothing assurances of private vengeance upon the surviving miscreants.”

  The Lighted Match

• “When I stopped at a khafe-khana for a glass of tea, he actually removed a wheel of the carriage, which we had considerable difficulty in putting right again, and he pounded the coachman on the head with the butt of his revolver, in order, as far as I could understand, that he should be induced to go half-shares with him in the backshish that the driver would receive at the end of the stage.”

  Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland

• “The obnoxious man now hastily descended from his seat and demanded a backshish.”

  Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland

• “There is nothing that they will not do to annoy you in every possible way, to extort backshish from you.”

  Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland

• “In the middle of the night we parted on the summit of the pass, and I gave them a good backshish -- not so much for the service they had rendered me as for relieving for a few hours the monotony of the journey.”

  Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland

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