1977, Joseph Krimsky, Pilgrimage & Service - Page 20-21We see the immense, massive granite sarcophagi which had contained the embalmed mummies of the worshipped animals, coming out of this labyrinth, we pay our backsheesh, remount our donkeys and return to the automobile.
1899, Mark Twain, ''As we paid the backsheesh out to sore-eyed children and brown, buxom girls with repulsively tattooed lips and chins, we filed through the town...
