A retired official, Nassedkine, who has been enriched by the gratuities which he has exacted from those who have had to do business with him, has made it his duty to play censor in his little town.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
Of course, officers of Scotland Yard were not allowed to take gratuities however substantial they might be, but there were material ways of expressing gratitude which were outside the regulations of the department.
"The Hampstead Mystery"
John R. Watson
Hence, in spite of the gratuities to the patients so employed, the yearly cost has been considerably reduced.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke