(1) She is his insurance beneficiary; the rest of the nabob 's once substantial wealth has mysteriously evaporated.

(2) 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 .

(3) He died in 1790, having made a living as a government propagandist and a fortune as agent of the nabob of Arcot.

(4) 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.

(5) Visram explains, u2018Indian servants were a symbol of the exalted status of the newly enriched India returned nabob .u2019

(6) For the next eight years he ceased to exhibit and lived the life of a nabob in Cairo.

(7) The Natchez nabob bought government bonds that yielded an annual income of $12,600 in the late 1850s.

(8) She is happily married to an Irish nabob , Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.

(9) Callers range from the imperious to the crawling, from the famous (represented by their minions) to the social climbers, from nabobs to Mafiosi.

(10) 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.

(11) 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.

(12) It's a good thing the young'uns have scared the nasty nabobs that run the labels with their high jinks.

(13) They were defended as affording opportunities for new non-landed interests - brewers, bankers, nabobs - to obtain representation.

(14) U2018One would expect such deportment from scalawags, but not you noble nabobs of Wall Street,u2019 wrote Cannell.

(15) It dawned on me that all the friends I had made, all two of them, were nabobs , and both had magnanimity.

(16) 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.

(17) 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.

(18) Six years in India, painting nabobs and rajas, restored his fortunes.

(19) This is nonetheless the India of economic potential, the place where the fortunes of adventurous nabobs were made.