I was apprised of the usual perquisite required upon these occasions, and immediately complied with the demand, though the little money I had was nearly exhausted.
The Executioner's perquisite is at least as old as Henry VIII.
Why didst not thou tell that it was perquisite thou wast wanting, for I would have given to thee without argument," sighed the guala, in visible relief.
The proceeds of the sale are the perquisite of the Bhondari.
The Brahmans sometimes join in these sacrifices, but of course take no part of the victim, the whole being the perquisite of the pujari, and there is no common participation in the meal.
All along the route cocoanuts are broken, and may amount to as many as four hundred, which become the perquisite of the village washerman.
The assertion of Pett[155] that it was 'claimed as a perquisite to our places' is not borne out by his own evidence.
The opium thus collected is the perquisite of the Temple priests, and at the gate of the Temple there is a stall for the sale of opium fittings.
They receive ten shillings a week, and the same perquisite as the "shooters.
The men who cast this net are called the "shooters," and receive eleven shillings and sixpence a week, and a perquisite of one basket of fish each out of every haul.
He is, therefore, not only paid his guinea a week while he is on the watch, but receives, besides, a perquisite in the shape of a percentage on the produce of all the fish taken under his auspices.
This charge was rather in the nature of a perquisite than a legal rate and serves partly to explain why Stanhope was so anxious to retain the monopoly of the foreign post.
Forty-seven gaming houses at Paris, which had been licensed, and from which several magistrates drew a perquisite of a pistole or half a sovereign a day, were shut up and suppressed.
These prizes were usually the perquisite of a few select scholars (my friend E.
The criminal's clothes fell as a perquisite to the soldiers specially charged with the execution of the sentence.
They had belonged to the Father, and He had given them to the Son as His special perquisite and belonging.
Unproductive consumption of goods is honourable, primarily as a mark of prowess and a perquisite of human dignity; secondarily it becomes substantially honourable to itself, especially the consumption of the more desirable things.
Such a tithe of vicarious leisure is a perquisite of all members of the preternatural leisure class and is indispensable to their good fame.
The Mullah was entitled to the heart of the animal killed as his perquisite and a fee of two pice.
The act of 1715 fixes the minister's marriage fee at five shillings; and to retain a monopoly of this perquisite at all hazards was the unswerving purpose of the Episcopal clergy throughout the colonial period.
The governor (Andros) not only deprived the clergy of the perquisite from marriages, but soon superseded the laws for their support.
There the privilege of franking newspapers was a perquisite, but it was not the perquisite of one officer, as in England.
Postage was in practice waived, newspapers being allowed to pass by post on payment of a small charge quarterly to the Deputy Postmaster-General, who retained the proceeds as a perquisite of his office.
Jewellery and gold and silver work were thus essentially the perquisite or, so to speak, the privilege of princes, nobles, and the Church.
Here was plain interference with his great perquisite of office, and Congress must be coerced to repeal it.
To him a quarrel is not only a constant necessity, but a perquisite of office.
In some places to the east of Kottarakaray, they were popularly termed Mutalpattukar, or those who receive the first perquisite for assistance rendered to carpenters.
The Thandan gets as his perquisite four annas out of the fine imposed, four packets of betel leaf, eight areca nuts, and three tobacco leaves.
The boy's party supplies this money, which is a perquisite of the Tandan.
The paddy and rice are a perquisite of the barber.
The cloth worn by a Kapu girl at the time of her first menstrual ceremony is the perquisite of the washerwoman.
The perquisite was a valuable one, and on the previous day she had been much annoyed by the careless cutting which had ruined a magnificent head of auburn hair.
Under other local customs, the priest claimed as a perquisite the bier on which a corpse was brought to his church, leading, in case of resistance, to quarrels more lively than edifying.
