Significados de local magnate en inglés

The cottagers thereabout almost always did this in speaking among themselves of their local magnate.

He was a large manufacturer, and a local magnate.

I notice in one case, where the leading magistrate on the bench was a great local magnate, an M.P.

Miss Boone, the daughter of the opulent contractor and chief local magnate, called to plan work for the soldiers.

Without waiting for a reply, he sat down and hastily wrote a few lines to a friendly local magnate.

The master of the tug gaped at this local magnate in wonder, and thought that sudden lunacy had seized him.

Harding, the banker and local magnate of Sandy Beach, whose money it was that had financed the new aeroplane concern.

Was it not incumbent on her to do well, nay to do brilliantly, in the eyes of this local magnate?

It seems that some local magnate is giving a barbecue out at his farm to-morrow and the whole town is invited.

Oliver was the local magnate, and his wealth would have made him an easy topic of conversation even without his eccentricity.

I may soon be as rich as your local magnate, Prince Duncan, but I have had to work harder for it, probably.

But to a cultivated Norwegian the translation is "Bauernsprache," such as a local magnate might use in forcing a suitor on his daughter.

The climax, to Blanche's mind, had been a ball just given by a local magnate and his wife who lived on the outskirts of Penzance.

The lesser lords were local magnates, who officiated at the shire and hundred courts.

He advised securing the services of Squire Rawson and a few other local magnates.

Many towns were self governing-independent ,thatis, of local magnates-undercharters from the Crown.