pourboire

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At length we reached a lonely farmhouse, at which, he implied, we were to alight; and we paid him his little bill, with the addition of a small pourboire.

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"Do you want to give me a lift with the biggest pieces?" asked the messenger; "my orders are to give you a good pourboire."

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It’s not the custom at Geneva to give a pourboire for so short a drive. 

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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?"

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

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