nabobs

• ‘Kept for visits from royalty or one of the Arab oil-nabobs,’ McMaster said. —  Here Lies Gloria Mundy - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 61
• Beckford's(70) concerning a Bill he intends to bring in for the more effectual prevention of bribery and keeping out nabobs, commissaries, and agents of the House of Commons, or at least from their encroachments upon the claims of persons established in towns and boroughs, by descent, family interest, and long enjoyed property; the principle of his scheme is certainly good. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
• Many of these new nattering nabobs are made up of those Jewish critics of the President who are intent on proving his bad intentions toward Israel no matter what the facts show. —  NJDC Blog
• Almost takes you back to the Spiro Agnew days of the nattering nabobs or whatever it was. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
• The Sun's team of negative nabobs, who hate Nevada and somehow don't want to turn the state clock back to somewhere around the time when kid Samuel Longhorn Clemens was jumping from one mining camp to the next and finding out that the only thing he was good for lying in print, are listing all sorts of horrible things that are happening under the loving knife of the Demon Governor of Mountain Street. —  Vote Gibbons Out! Jim Gibbons is America's Worst Governor!

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