bucksheesh

'bucksheesh' out to Ram Lal liberally may bring him to talk of the old days.

A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

Madame la Princesse from any Arabs at all, except from one beggar who was bawling out for bucksheesh, and whom Kew drove away with a stick.

The Newcomes 2006

I agreed, and after the usual remuneration or bucksheesh, with a little extra, had passed hands, away went our friend down the road to the bazaar.

Indian Conjuring 1912

"I will not do wonders for bucksheesh," said the priest, and began to hobble away.

Mr. Isaacs 1881

The young fellow was courageous, and ignorant of the immediate danger, and, above all, he was on the look out for bucksheesh.

Mr. Isaacs 1881

We got away from the noisy wretches, finally, dropping them in squads and couples as we filed over the hills -- the aged first, the infants next, the young girls further on; the strong men ran beside us a mile, and only left when they had secured the last possible piastre in the way of bucksheesh.

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872

We suffered torture no pen can describe from the hungry appeals for bucksheesh that gleamed from Arab eyes and poured incessantly from Arab lips.

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872

If ever we caught an eye exposed it was quickly hidden from our contaminating Christian vision; the beggars actually passed us by without demanding bucksheesh; the merchants in the bazaars did not hold up their goods and cry out eagerly, "Hey, John!" or "Look this, Howajji!"

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05 Mark Twain 1872

But we had adopted a new code -- it was millions for defense, but not a cent for bucksheesh.

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872

They hung to the horses's tails, clung to their manes and the stirrups, closed in on every aide in scorn of dangerous hoofs -- and out of their infidel throats, with one accord, burst an agonizing and most infernal chorus: "Howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! bucksheesh! bucksheesh!"

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05 Mark Twain 1872