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

He took his pourboire and left the rest, just as he treated monsieur.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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

Finally Tomass' compromised on one-lira-fifty per hour, with fifty centesimi pourboire.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison

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

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de