pourboire

Example Sentences

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At any rate, M. Clemenceau was so excited that he forgot to give the usual pourboire to the female attendant who conducted him to his front seat in the fauteuils.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he, glaring at me with his dim eyes, remarked, sneering, "So you want a pourboire because you have supported your sick mother and not poisoned your brother?"

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

The matter is then arbitrated by the driver who accepts as client the one who offers the largest pourboire.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher

One gains admission to the ch�teau freely from the concierge, who in due course expects her pourboire, and sees that she gets it.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

That I should have risked perishing upon a trumpery question of a pourboire, depicted in lively colours the perils that perpetually surrounded us.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis