Potation pennies" were gratuities made when a feast was provided, whilst "nutt money" was the term applied to the gifts made to the schoolmasters at Michaelmas.
Cock pennies" were gratuities given to the schoolmasters in connection with the almost universal custom of cock-fighting which took place in schools on Shrove Tuesday.
The latter can be disposed of as gratuities to waiters and guides, and the former may be kept as curiosities, or dropped into the hats of importunate beggars.
Allusion has been made in preceding paragraphs to the system of gratuities that prevails in Great Britain and on the Continent.
It would be a good deal mitigated if the expectants would name the exact amount they are entitled to; a regular tariff forgratuities would be a vast relief to the traveling public, but this boon is emphatically refused.
Every traveler must judge for himself whether he has made an undue demand upon the servants, and gauge hisgratuities accordingly.
Out of the gratuities he pays the wages of the waiters, and reimburses himself for his services, so that the attendance costs the establishment nothing.
Gratuities from the royal treasury have been bestowed upon the various religious communities.
The gratuities and pensions awarded in accordance with the Fifth Schedule to this Act shall be paid by the Treasury to the payees out of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.
Those gratuities and pensions and all existing pensions payable in respect of service in either force, shall be paid by the Treasury to the payees out of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.
Circumstances have been recently developed showing the existence of extensive frauds under the various laws granting pensions and gratuities for Revolutionary services.
For these gratuities to foreigners and to some of our own opulent citizens the act secures no equivalent whatever.
Sobhan Allee, his deputy, was made to pay to the treasury seven lacs of rupees, and in gratuities to court favourites five lacs more.
He was then superseded by Hakeem Mahndee, thrown into prison, and made to pay twenty lacs to the treasury, and two lacs in gratuities to Court favourites.
There were, besides, other gratuitiesfor special services.
In 1788, the state of the marine mail service attracted parliamentary attention; for in that year we find a Committee of Fees and Gratuities reporting that the cost of the mail service had reached an unreasonable sum.
After some further explanation to those Chiefs who had not signed the treaty, the payment of the annuities and gratuitieswas commenced and continued by Messrs.
The Secretary of War had referred to him, in his letter to the committee, as knowing the fact that the Secretary had refused to give private gratuities to the Creek chiefs to promote the success of the negotiation.
Moreover, besides gratuities and a fixed salary, there are the gratifications and perquisites belonging to the office.
The registers of the Committee of Public Safety contain a number of similar gratuitiespaid to provincial clubs and patriots, for instance, AF.
It was not forgotten that fees and gratuities depend on the last impressions made upon the minds of masters.
Sometimes, in return, he helped editors, or got rid of obstacles to the performances of some play; gave gratuitiesand good dinners at the right moment, or promised his services to bring some affair to a happy conclusion.
Readers should bear in mind the part which New Year's Gifts and other customary gratuities played in the trumpery charges against Lord Bacon.
The Chancellor was not more dependent on customary gratuities than the chief of the three Common Law courts.
Amongst the bad consequences of the system of gratuities was the color which it gave to idle rumors and malicious slander against the purity of upright judges.
When they had collected some trifling gratuities they went to the river Regnitz and flung the puppets representing Death into the stream.
When Suess offered him a jewel he was unable to resist the temptation of buying it, and very little of the money of the Bureau of Gratuities ever reached him; he took the value out in stones at Suess' estimation.
Side by side with the Office of Gratuities came the Fiscal Office into being, whose function it was to revise the magisterial and judicial proceedings of the courts of justice.
Sometimes the effigy of Death (without a tree) is carried round by boys who collect gratuities (J.
One barber with whom I talked on the subject openly avowed that he considered himself wronged if he did not get his fee, and recounted the various devices he and his fellows practised to extract gratuities from the unwilling.
In all those magnificent sacrifices instituted by Gaya, the protector of the earth, Indra, was delighted by drinking the Soma juice, and the ministering priests were gratified with the gratuitiespaid to them.
Here the gods together with Indra, and the protectors of all born beings, celebrated sacrifices of various kinds on a large scale, and paid abundant gratuities to the ministering priests.
He performed a number of sacrificial rites of various kinds, in which abundant gratuities were paid to the priests.
It is customary on leaving a ship to give gratuities to servants.
Another instance of the contrast between the immediate and remote, or apparent and real, results of acts of intended beneficence is to be found in the prodigality with which well-to-do persons often distribute gratuities amongst servants.
And back of him was the pathetic fact, industriously circulated, that "the company" did not pay him enough to live on, so that he was dependent on the gratuities of passengers who had already paid full price for accommodations and services.
The employer had hired them on the understanding that any compensation they receive must come from the gratuities of patrons.
It is this giving of gratuitiesthat is unlike us, it is a custom copied from a foreign country where conditions are different from ours.
Some clubs have handled the tipping custom by forbidding gratuities during the year and then allowing the members to contribute to a fund to be divided among the servitors at Christmas.
There is no justification from any viewpoint for giving gratuities to public servants.
Employees should be engaged on wages that are adequate without regard to any gratuities that may be given.
Mail carriers, policemen, garbage collectors, guides and other government employees are paid adequately and gratuities to them from the public are indefensible, in any country, and supremely so in the American democracy.
In the larger cities a system of giving gratuities to these and other government employees has grown up that emphasizes the distance we have to travel to attain true democracy.
And if they are employed in places where the only compensation they receive is from the gratuities of patrons, this soreness is incurable.
The employers and employees welcome gratuities but do not make them the prime object in their relations with patrons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gratuities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
