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

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.

From Norway by Jungman, Beatrix

I thought it strange, but I called out the order to Alphonse and bade him promise a good pourboire.

From A Diplomatic Adventure by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

Tartarin went up to give him a pourboire, as he had seen all the other tourists do.

From Tartarin On The Alps by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

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