How To Use Nabob In A Sentence
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The result was an unholy mess, with party nabobs muttering darkly about throwing the 71-year-old peer out of the Tories altogether.
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At Christmas -- at every season, indeed -- the hospitable old "nabob" 1 entertained throngs of guests; and, if we choose to go back in fancy, we may see those Virginians of the old age amid their most characteristic surroundings.
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
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She is his insurance beneficiary; the rest of the nabob's once substantial wealth has mysteriously evaporated.
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State, -- where he was growing rich fast enough to be able to decline that famous Russian offer which would have made him a kind of nabob in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
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And only in America could a man who has called the corporatized, in-the-tank, mainstream media his "base" -- the media that made him its darling and hailed him for his supposed "straight talk" -- run against that very same media, bashing it figuratively while "peace officers" were doing so quite literally in the streets of St. Paul, in a manner unseen since the 60s and the Chicago days of Daley and the subsequent Nixonian "nattering nabobs of negativity" era.
Rory O'Connor: Beating the Press -- Literally
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But other than that, remember folks, it's been a huge success and anybody who doesn't see it that way is a nattering nabob of negativism.
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The Nabob finding his time after dinner hang somewhat heavy on his hand, and the moon being tolerably bright, had, one harvest evening, sought his usual remedy for dispelling ennui by a walk to the Manse, where he was sure, that, if he could not succeed in engaging the minister himself in some disputation, he would at least find something in the establishment to animadvert upon and to restore to order.
Saint Ronan's Well
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I was to receive a salary of 200 rupees by the month, in addition to which Mr. Holwell undertook to procure me a dustuck from the Governor, enabling any merchandise I chose to trade in to pass through the province of Bengal free of taxes or duties to the Nabob's government.
Athelstane Ford
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It dawned on me that all the friends I had made, all two of them, were nabobs, and both had magnanimity.
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lovely - another really cool project suggestion that just BEGS the nattering nabobs to call lifehacker stupid and irresponsible for posting it, and anyone else stupid and irresponsible for even considering it.
Build A Ping-Pong Pistol | Lifehacker Australia
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“If your nabob is a nabob, he can very well afford to give madame the furniture.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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He died in 1790, having made a living as a government propagandist and a fortune as agent of the nabob of Arcot.
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In the early days of the East India Company, the gora sahebs adopted Indian ways - in imitation of the ‘nabobs’ - which meant taking Indian wives, wearing Indian dresses and partaking of local fare.
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Callers range from the imperious to the crawling, from the famous (represented by their minions) to the social climbers, from nabobs to Mafiosi.
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Nonetheless, Malodor became a nabob since his hammers were popular throughout the world.
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Mr. Dupré, as the basis for negotiating the treaty made with the Rajah in 1771, the Nabob required that the Arnee district should be delivered up to the circar, because the braminees had broken the conditions which they were to have observed.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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Seneewasarow, both of whom were admitted to the jaghire by the Nabob.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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The Natchez nabob bought government bonds that yielded an annual income of $12,600 in the late 1850s.
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On the death of Meer Jaffier, the supreme council at Calcutta conferred the sovereignty on his youthful son, Nujeem-ul-Dowlah; at the same time appointing Mohammed Reza Khan, a naib subah, or sub-nabob, to manage the revenues and all other matters of government.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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The most endangered predators he meets are Indian lions, which were once protected by Indian nabobs but now threaten local livestock and compete with the populace for scarce resources.
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Nor was this all: Shah Alum, the son of the Emperor of Delhi, having invaded Bengal, Clive delivered Meer Jaffier from this formidable enemy, and was rewarded with the jaghire or estate of the lands south of Calcutta, for which the company were bound to pay the nabob a quit-rent of about thirty thousand pounds annually.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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The following are the heads and principles of such an arrangement as we are decisively of opinion must be adopted for these purposes, viz. That, for making a provision for discharging the Nabob's just debts to the Company and individuals, (for the payment of which his Highness has so frequently expressed the greatest solicitude,) _the Nabob shall give soucar security for the punctual payment, by instalments_, into the
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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Maharajah of Travancore; the Nabob of Jubbelpore; the Begum of Bhopal; the Nawab of Mysore; the Rance of Gulnare; the Ahkoond of Swat's; the Rao of Rohilkund; the Gaikwar of Baroda.
Following the Equator, Part 5
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'tis well I was married in time; a nabob is a dangerous rival.
The History of Emily Montague
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Englishman, as jealous as a tiger, a nabob; I called him a nabot, a dwarf, for he was not so big as le bailli de Ferrette.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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The family name, indeed, may stem from the same Arabic root as the word nabob, having been brought into Russia by the fourteenth-century Tatar prince Nabok Murza.
Professor Nabokov
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This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise!
Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Foujdarry, &c., from the Company's circar; and having drawn up an account-current in the manner they wished, they got the Nabob to sign it, and then sent it to me.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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When the Bow Begum, despairing of redress from the Nabob, addressed herself to Mr. Middleton, and reminded him of the guarantee which he had signed, she was instantly promised that the amount of her jaghire should be made good, tho he said he could not interfere with the sovereign decision of the Nabob respecting the lands.
At the Trial of Warren Hastings
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Hager is an Asburian nabob; his elderly father is a past president of the college, and Hager himself currently sits on his alma mater's board of trustees.
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The third canto to Polwhele's poem describes a Eastern-style hunt with a Nabob, alluding specifically to Somervile's treatment of the subject in "sonorous lines
Notes
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For the next eight years he ceased to exhibit and lived the life of a nabob in Cairo.
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I introduced him to her, and left her to improve the impression: 'tis well I was married in time; a nabob is a dangerous rival.
The History of Emily Montague
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Many bloggers and online commenters have called the animatronic baby "creepy" and "freaky" -- Technabob even ran a post about the clip with the headline
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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‘One would expect such deportment from scalawags, but not you noble nabobs of Wall Street,’ wrote Cannell.
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Nabobs, who for years had been purring about back areas in expensive cars, dressed up like movie-kings, were suddenly debussed and dismantled.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919
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In the same ratio, the camels which composed their train were fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty; the size of their oriental pearls was distended till they almost got to the egg of the ostrich: but as a bulse of diamonds sounded well for a Nabobess, the exact quantity contained in a bulse was increased only in the same proportion with the rest of the eastern importation.
Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton
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She is happily married to an Irish nabob, Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.
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Despite what the funding nabobs think, the works that define our film culture to the world outside are the ones that are the most unorthodox.
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It's a good thing the young'uns have scared the nasty nabobs that run the labels with their high jinks.
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They were defended as affording opportunities for new non-landed interests - brewers, bankers, nabobs - to obtain representation.
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Now that the series has been pencilled in for another 10 years, perhaps the GAA nabobs might consider giving the manager's job to the one man who deserves it the most.
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One morning, passing through Vessory Bazar, I was greatly shocked at seeing the nabob's elephant take up a little child in his trunk and dash its brains out against the ground; the only reason that could be observed was, that the child had thrown some pebble stones at it; and the only redress the poor disconsolate mother could obtain was a gift of fifty pagodas from the nabob, which is about equal to twenty pounds sterling.
Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales
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I knew that Brice had been what we used to call a nabob and had made a fortune in India.
Gatlinburg
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He returned to Macao, where he painted English nabobs and Chinese officials, employing Chinese assistants as copyists, and made thousands of further drawings.
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Or rather the network nabobs think they appreciate him, but he's crossed the pond twice to discuss a possible career-making TV deal, to no avail.
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In theory, I knew nabob was from nawab, but they occur in such different contexts and are pronounced so differently it's hard to keep it in my head.
Languagehat.com: NABOB/NAWAB.
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State, -- where he was growing rich fast enough to be able to decline that famous Russian offer which would have made him a kind of nabob in a few years.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
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This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise!
Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
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And he took what may have been a swipe at fellow word maven William Safire for putting the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" into the vice president's mouth.
NBC News Correspondent Was Tart-Tongued Grammar Guru
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The nabobs, as they were called -- the company's servants and directors who survived the appalling climate and who returned to England after a few years with immense fortunes wrung by extortion and peculation from the Indian princes and the Indian trade.
Some Aspects of the Public Service
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The Nabobs are getting close to their moment of power and, of course, power comes with certain trappings, one of which must needs be a Palace.
Archive 2008-02-10
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He found that Lord Macartney, in order to frighten the Court of Directors from the project of obliging the Nabob to give soucar security for his debt, assured them, that, if they should take that step, Benfield [60] would infallibly be the soucar, and would thereby become the entire master of the Carnatic.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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The nattering nabobs of negativity can stay home. — joyce louden
How Lavish Should the Inauguration Be? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Nobody, not even his old Eton chums, seemed to know much about him except that he was some kind of nabob, with connections in Leadenhall Street, but he was well received in Society, where his money and manners paid for all.
Flashman's Lady
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Nabob to sign a receipt, in consequence of which they received, at two different times, near fifty thousand rupees, in the name of the officers of the adawlut, foujdarry, &c., from the Company's sircar; and having drawn up an account current in the manner they wished, they got the
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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Six years in India, painting nabobs and rajas, restored his fortunes.
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Proceedings in our possession, that he was concerned in the misconduct of the braminees, complained of by the Nabob in the year 1770, which rendered it necessary for his Highness to take the jaghire into his own hands, or that he was privy to or could have prevented those disturbances.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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Rather than leave a blank I have hazarded a reading congruent with the other Indian terms (rupee, nabob) in the text.
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It's just more hooey from the nattering nabobs of negativity.
Republicans react to jobless report
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The collation was a sumptuous one, for when Belfast nabobs do anything, they do it.
The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder
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It's the rulers that matter, the rajas and the nabobs - like this rani of yours in Jhansi.
Fiancée
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It may be true that there are among Buddhist mendicants, living on alms in dirt and penury, some who feel perfectly happy and do not envy any nabob.