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By the aid of certain small briberies on the train and in Paris Carmichael gathered, bit by bit, that the destination of the woman he loved was America.

From The Goose Girl by MacGrath, Harold

These deities might be lured by certain rites and briberies into a transfer of their favors to the besieging army.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

The last war between Russia and Turkey brought to light official fraud and briberies, connected especially with the commissary department of the army, which disgraced the whole nation in the eyes of the world.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Now your Lordships will find, that, of these faithful domestic servants, there is not one of them who was not concerned in these enormous briberies, and in betraying their own native and natural master.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The barefaced acts of injustice and shameless briberies daily occurring in the Mehkames, or halls of justice, would seem almost incredible to an European, and especially an Englishman.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by Burckhardt, John Lewis