What is "perquisites"

Usage examples of "perquisites".

His zeal for justice is also whetted by hopes of profit, especially with a poor and greedy agent with a large family, when he receives as stipend so many dollars per head for each witch burned, besides the incidental fees and perquisites which investigating agents are allowed to extort at will from those they summon.

One of the perquisites of power on becoming prime minister in China in the fifth century BC was that you got to construct a model state in your home district or province.

Your lieutenant Gaius Philippus assumes your rank and its perquisites, effective at once.

For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.