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Definition of Cumshaws
1. cumshaw [n] - See also: cumshaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumshaws
Literary usage of Cumshaws
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Secret Agent in Port Arthur by William Oliver Greener (1905)
"... put the man in the yamen, and being rich, paid the expected cumshaws, and in
the course of time the sum they demanded was extorted from the contractor. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1875)
"... but having pro- ised them good " cumshaws " if we succeeded, we set out in
good spirits. There was no need of the torches, as a bright moon showed us ..."
3. China and Her People by Charles Denby (1905)
"... however, that their only means of support was the monthly wages. A large source
of revenue for the legation servants was " cumshaws," ..."
4. China, the Long-lived Empire by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1900)
"They yelled wildly aud clanked toward us—horrible creatures, with eyes shining
brightly from semi-starvation, who clamored for cumshaws, for money to buy ..."
5. The Chinese Repository by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, S. W. Williams (1840)
"... the limitation of opium-orders; the charges on rice-ships; the cumshaws at
Wham- poa; the settlements of duties, in cases of dispute; the custom of the ..."
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