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gratuity
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  • So we slide from bribe to gratuity.†  (source)
  • I believed that love is a gratuity, not a reward to be earnedjust as they believe it is their right to demand an unearned wealth.†  (source)
  • With fifteen thousand pounds, a gratuity and a pension from the Circus, a man—as Control would say—can afford to come in from the cold.†  (source)
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  • Capable of gratuity!†  (source)
  • Although gratuities in the South—at least up until that time—had been in general eschewed or never taken seriously, he should have known better than to tip Thomas McGuire a nickel—wiser to give no tip at all.†  (source)
  • Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantes proceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.†  (source)
  • He remembered the evenings he had come to this house, a bottle beside him on the seat, and they had gone tooting off together; and the evenings he had brought bottles in gift packages, discreet gratuities for her brother; and the nights in the apartment, sharing a decanter drink for drink because she loved her liquor.†  (source)
  • A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of imagination.†  (source)
  • But the new family did not make its appearance; it was only through Raggles that she heard of their movements—how Miss Crawley's domestics had been dismissed with decent gratuities, and how Mr. Pitt had only once made his appearance in London, when he stopped for a few days at the house, did business with his lawyers there, and sold off all Miss Crawley's French novels to a bookseller out of Bond Street.†  (source)
  • That gratuity which I receive at Christmas, ma'am: I never touch it.†  (source)
  • He appeared a comfortable owner of something, a man from whom the common run of mortals could well expect gratuities.†  (source)
  • She heard Jonathan Kail's heavy footsteps up and down the stairs till he had done placing the luggage, and heard him express his thanks for the ale her husband took out to him, and for the gratuity he received.†  (source)
  • Water, rest, shelter, and protection were all he looked for from the proprietor, and they were gratuities.†  (source)
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