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Examples for "nabob"
Examples for "nabob"
1It was not until five o'clock that the nabob entered the fort.
2He was a nabob, and he knew the power of his wealth.
3Up in Copperhead Camp I was a nabob, here I'm a nobody.
4They are going to be huge, gushes the nabob of gob himself.
5The very offer of the nabob showed him that the latter was alarmed.
1The idea of so much water was difficult for the naib to grasp.
2Meah Atchund was continued governor of Surat, and Pharass Cawn was appointed naib.
3Fenring acted as if he did not hear the naib.
4The old naib's brow furrowed, and he ran his fingers along the dark beard on his chin.
5A battered and bedraggled Elias stood over him, looking deeply worried, as the naib drew several shuddering breaths.
1The nawab was killed, and one of his sons, Maphuz Khan, taken prisoner.
2This man was the nephew of the last nawab of the Carnatic, Dost Ali.
3Dupleix refused, and the nawab sent his son Maphuz Khan to invest the town.
4The nawab held the fort for seven months, when it was recaptured by Lord Clive.
5What nawab owns the great house yonder?
6The nawab advanced against them, but was utterly defeated at Ambur, the French doing pretty well the whole of the work.
7What on earth could these do against all the force of the nawab, the subadar, and three or four thousand French troops?
8Dupleix was recalled to France in disgrace; and the British were left to enjoy the favor of the nawab who owed his throne to Clive.
9Governor Morse endeavoured to obtain, from the nawab, the protection which he had before granted to Dupleix, a demand which the nawab at once refused.
10Law received the news on the 15th, and hurried to the Nawab.
11The issue of the Nawab's attack on Calcutta has already been told.
12Nawab Allee coveted very much this estate, which bordered on his own.
13But his gentle conceit was unheard, for Nawab Khan related a story.
14Nawab Allee coveted it as being on his border, and in good order.
15This put an end to all chance of the Nawab interfering.
16Nawab Allee's auxiliaries, two thousand men and three small guns; 4.