Of our camel-men, some were Bedouin and some were negroes, and we found them on the whole honest and obliging, though with the usual keen eye for a possible bakshish, which is not uncommon elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Be aware that your handler will expect "bakshish" (a tip) for pictures that they take of you, or that you take of the camel.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

He said we must take five soldiers, bargained for their wages, food, and bakshish, and obtained the money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

They rowed hard when the course was clear, encouraged by promises of liberal bakshish made by their employer at.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

The soldiers behaved most helpfully and the brave and bold Jabberi had not yet once mentioned bakshish in our hearing and were most polite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

The term meant the U.S. might have to tolerate the inevitable “bakshish,” the small cost-of-doing-business bribes that were part of Afghan culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s Wars] Reference

With his arrival and the promise of liberal bakshish the hackeriwallahs urged the laboring oxen with their cruel goads till Desmond, always tender with animals, could hardly endure the sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

Ghail Babwazir, during which you will have your eleven dollars a day; and we will engage you on to Sheher, and give you good bakshish, and a good character to the sultan and two nice turbans. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

My groom was dismissed also without bakshish: he was only a rough fellow taken from the mud brick works at Makalla, and my poor Basha would have fared ill if really dependent on M'barrek for care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

He was given ten rupees to attach himself to us, as an earnest of the good bakshish he would get at the coast, as he said all the other soldiers would go back from Shibahm, and really in that case I think he would have been glad of our escort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Then Saleh, who had 100 rupees a month and ate with everyone, came to demand half a rupee a day for food; this was granted, as we thought it could come off his bakshish, and he soon appeared to make the same request for Mahmoud, the naturalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Alexandria his first greeting was a cry for bakshish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman] Reference

Nilratan spoke to the peons: "There has been no occasion for bakshish; you shan't have it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hungry Stones and Other Stories] Reference

"Very few people give us sweets and bakshish on Diwali," admits Dhanpat Singh grudgingly, a veteran, 27 years in the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Offers of treble pay and bakshish had no effect, and I found myself in a serious dilemma when a camel man appeared on the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference

I have heard that many annulments have been expedited by the application of bakshish to help the bishop remember that the first marriage was a fake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs. 9-8-5 -- nine rupees eight annas and five pie -- for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories] Reference

It was still Egypt, and the place was true to its national character; for the travellers were immediately beset by a horde of beggars, and bakshish was still a popular clamor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing] Reference

Arabs who live in the mud hovels you see, raise fine vegetables here; and, like all Arabs, they will expect a bakshish. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing] Reference

"Promise the men more bakshish: don't stint.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

'bakshish', or gave too little of it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

"bakshish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula] Reference

Magistrate -- so we have come for bakshish. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hungry Stones and Other Stories] Reference