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  • Mr. Hastings, after advising _that the Nabob should be intrusted with the exclusive and entire receipts and disbursements of his stipend_, immediately corrects that advice, _being aware that so sudden and unlimited a disposal of a large revenue might at first encourage a spirit of dissipation in the Nabob_, -- and reserves to

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • I thanked him, and Mr. Scrafton and I at once set out for Surajah's quarters, which we were informed were at a place called Nabob-gunge.

    Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

  • The tent of the Nabob was a fine great pavilion of yellow and crimson cloth.

    Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

  • "Bompain, Bompain!" calls the Nabob, roused to enthusiasm.

    The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • There was the manager of the theatre in which the Nabob was a sleeping partner, -- Cardailhac, almost as renowned for his wit as for his failures, that wonderful carver, who would prepare one of his _bons mots_ as he detached the limbs of a partridge, and deposit it with a wing in the plate that was handed him.

    The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Directors say, "It is with equal surprise and concern that we observe this request introduced, and the Nabob's ostensible rights so solemnly asserted at this period by our Governor-General; because, on a late occasion, to serve a very different purpose, he has not scrupled to declare it as visible as the light of the sun, that the Nabob is a mere pageant, and without even the shadow of authority."

    Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Thomas Moore 1815

  • My father, who thought all happiness consisted in being rich, asked, with great eagerness, whether the Nabob was a single man?

    The Offspring of Fancy Anonymous 1778

  • We have farther stated, that the pretence that he was only concerned in this business as an accessary is equally false; it being, on the contrary, notorious, that the Nabob was the accessary, forced into the service, and a mere instrument in his hands, and that he and Sir Elijah Impey (whose employment in this business we stated as a farther aggravation) were the authors and principal agents.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • All this was done in the name of the Nabob; but if the Nabob is the person claiming his father's effects, if the Nabob is the person vindicating a rebellion against himself upon his nearest relations, why did he not in person take a single step in this matter? why do we see nothing but his abused name in it?

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • Among these jaghires we find, what your Lordships would expect to find, an ample provision for all the nobility of that illustrious family of which the Nabob is the head: a prince whose family, both by father and mother, notwithstanding the slander of the prisoner against his benefactor, was undoubtedly of the first and most distinguished nobility of the Mahometan empire.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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