conscience-money

Exchequer, acknowledging the receipt of 50 pounds from A.B., or 10 pounds from W. T., as conscience-money, on account of taxes due by the said A.B. or W. T., which payments the penitents beg the Right

Vanity Fair 2006

Now they'd think she'd only come in for a pee, the soft drink conscience-money.

Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004

He left a vast fortune and a number of jewels which had been taken from their settings to De Beers, by way of conscience-money for several thousand pounds 'worth of diamonds in the rough which he had stolen from them.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

It's like conscience-money – you know what that is, don't you?

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

No one would give them leave to go out to pursue people who had brought them pudding, and wreck vengeance on then, and at any rate we shall get rid of the conscience-pudding – it's a sort of conscience-money, you know – only it isn't money but pudding.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

He had told the People that although they might temporarily accept such gifts as "Capital's conscience-money," yet it was as much the duty of the parish to supply light as to supply street-lamps; which was considered both ungracious and unsound.

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

It's like conscience-money -- you know what that is, don't you?

New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891

He directed him to account for it in his books as conscience-money, and he enjoyed the joke more than Conrad seemed to do when he was told where it came from.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

He directed him to account for it in his books as conscience-money, and he enjoyed the joke more than Conrad seemed to do when he was told where it came from.

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878

He directed him to account for it in his books as conscience-money, and he enjoyed the joke more than Conrad seemed to do when he was told where it came from.

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878