Though strangers are not allowed to see the interior of the cage in which these birds of Paradise are confined, yet many parts of the Seraglio are free to the curiosity of visitors, who choose to drop a backsheesh here and there.
This esteem gave greater certainty that any backsheesh coming from the estate of Benn Claridge would not be sifted through many hands on its way to himself.
Wassef replied that the Mamour did well not to accept the backsheesh of Mahommed Selim's father, for the Mouffetish at the palace of Ismail would have heard of it, and there would have been an end to the Mamour.
It was quite a different matter when it was backsheesh for sending Mahommed Selim to the Soudan.
His gift for lying was inexpressible: confusion never touched him; for the flattest contradictions in the matter of levying backsheesh he always found an excuse.
He also told her that the young man was willing to go, and that the Mamour would take nobacksheesh from his father.
Kept busy, with a promise of success and backsheesh when the matter was completed, the Arab would probably remain secret.
That was a very peculiar thing, because every Egyptian official, from the Khedive down to the ghafhr of the cane-fields, took backsheesh in the name of Allah.
Because with this offer he should not only have backsheesh but the man also, the fat sergeant gave him leave.
When he entered the house he proceeded to the door of the bride's room, where he threw down silver and gold as backsheesh until her women were satisfied; then he was permitted to enter.
And to toss backsheesh over to the crowd on the bank as the steamer moves away is to see every one of them roll over in the dirt and fight and scratch like cats over half a piaster.
Add to this a whining and interminable appeal for backsheesh and you might be very near the mark indeed.
Perhaps the days of backsheesh aren't done in Egypt, after all.
We offeredbacksheesh to any one who would dig the grave, but no one volunteered, and suggested pushing the body out into the current again to be carried to Baghdad, as the easiest way of settling the matter.
Upon receiving any backsheesh or present, the recipient is always ready to kiss your hand.
Give backsheesh with kind face, and not send poor Arab to Assouan.
He had a long grey beard, and black eyes, that lighted up with a sudden expression of eager greed when we promised him backsheesh for a sight of the sacred book.
After two hours we reached a guard-house, where our teskerés were demanded, and the lazy guardsman invited us in to take coffee, that he might establish a right to the backsheesh which he could not demand.
Our charioteer, excited by the promise of a liberal backsheesh if he should get us into Dehra Doon before nightfall, drove at full speed.
This was duly signed and sealed, and the money paid on the spot, with promise of liberal backsheesh at the end if the agreement was satisfactorily performed.
One cannot get along without them, and yet they are so importunate in their demands for backsheesh that they become a nuisance.
He is by no means as rapacious for backsheesh as the passing traveller supposes; he is shrewd to distinguish between man and man; likes this one, and will do anything for him unrewarded, and will do naught for another for any bribe.
Though he could get more from the occasional visitor than from me, he was above the ravenous appetite for backsheesh which consumed his fellows.
But it is bad economy to accept these courtesies, for the reason that the backsheesh to servants and officers amounts to a large figure, frequently to several hundreds of dollars.
The manner of the Egyptian Arab in this matter of backsheesh is most insulting, and the wonder is he has been allowed to practice it so long.
A group of wan and hungry-looking priests were standing there to receive us; they live on backsheesh and sleep on the cold marble floors of the tombs.
There is always a policeman to protect strangers from injury or insult, and if you give the priests a little backsheesh they will look out for you.
They closed the amusement with a modest suggestion that some backsheesh was due for their services, which having paid, our muleteers hurried off in search of the animals.
This effort was most exhausting, even when assisted by these athletic Arabs, and the demand for backsheesh was overpowering.
The sail around the island was an agreeable pastime, but the Arabs clamoring for backsheesh and for the sale of their beads, were beyond human endurance.
The son of the Chinese basketmaker, who dwelt almost next door, spoke neither English nor Hindustani, but showed an easy comprehension of her promise of backsheesh when he should return with an answer.
Backsheesh is very well spent in setting the Turk to watch the Kourd, instead of both of them preying upon us.
I think it might be managed for you, with backsheeshto the zaptiehs.
He was at once alike to the irascible Frenchman whom Destiny had obliged to make room for the fair Comtesse (see chapter one), and to the conductor who soon afterwards had accepted a backsheesh for certain services.
I spent a few minutes over this highly interesting riddle, until another thought came, namely: If I were not soon to engage in conversation with the Comtesse, I should have spent my backsheesh in vain.
He had got some notion of impending ill-luck, I found, and was unhappy at our departure--and the backsheesh failed to console him.
You would give my camel a good backsheesh if you saw how prodigiously fat I have grown on her milk; it beats codliver-oil hollow.
The small boys of an age licensed to penetrate into the cabin, went off with the oddest cargoes of dressing things and the like--of backsheesh not one word.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backsheesh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
