"Backshish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... small hollow where at one time a little water was to be met with, but which is now quite dry. We then met a caravan of people from Ramleh, in Syria, who were taking a few wretched horses and mules to Egypt for sale, and subsequently two Bedouins, who applied to us for the customary backshish. ...
— The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria • Ludwig Salvator
... water's edge herds of buffaloes wallow in the river, tended by a little boy who stares stolidly at your steamer as it passes or, in great excitement, chases your vessel and vainly cries for "backshish."[5] At frequent intervals are the water-wheels and "shadufs," which raise the water to the level of the fields, and these are such important adjuncts of the farm that I must describe them. The "shaduf" is one of the oldest and one of the simplest methods of raising water in existence. A ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt • R. Talbot Kelly |
