pourboire

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

Poor soul, he was so pleased with his pourboire, I have made Madame Zassetsky promise to employ him often; so he will be something the better for me, little as he will know it.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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 Heinrich Heine

In France the pourboire is a veritable tax, as it is in Italy and in the Latin countries.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain

"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 Charles Paul de Kock

But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma.

From Time Magazine Archive

Americans were scarce this season, and fortes pourboires few and far between.

From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons

It seems that the Emperor's attention had been railed to the many very disagreeable articles in the newspapers on the subject of the extravagant pourboires exacted at Compiègne.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

A bored young waiter, with little to hope for in the way of pourboires, ambled off in quest of our food.

From The Motor Maid by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

This solicitude evaporated in what Bismarck disdainfully called the policy of pourboires, the policy of tips and pickings—scraps and slips of territory to be given to France under the diplomatic name of compensation.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley