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Definition of the day : « baksheesh »
- As in consideration : noun payment
- Those incapables had no doubt been after David for baksheesh, and he felt just that way.
- Extract from : « The Ship Dwellers » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Still, I am sorry now I didn't contribute the baksheesh he expected.
- Extract from : « The Ship Dwellers » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- The first word these loons pronounce after coming into the world must be baksheesh.
- Extract from : « Romantic Spain » by John Augustus O'Shea
- The next best thing to do is to forget the wish, pay two-pence in baksheesh and ride away to get the most of a glorious view.
- Extract from : « The Walls of Constantinople » by Bernard Granville Baker
- For the first two years of war he kept out of the army by means of baksheesh.
- Extract from : « Eastern Nights - and Flights » by Alan Bott
- In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.
- Extract from : « The Making Of A Novelist » by David Christie Murray
- What was more, he (p. 303) and his firm were never troubled any more with inexorable demands for baksheesh.
- Extract from : « An Englishman in Paris » by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam
- It put an end to baksheesh—graft as you call it—in Thebes, and it would be valuable to-day in Cairo, I should think.
- Extract from : « The Ship Dwellers » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Mounted men were racing off full speed to Kabul and the other big towns; those who got in first received the baksheesh.
- Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray
- Donkey-boys and arabeah-men aren't easily seduced when there's a question of baksheesh.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson