tai-pan

Claudia said, "Excuse me, tai-pan, Lando Mata on line two."

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

Oh by the way, tai-pan, one of our old friends asks if you could get him a shipment of goods.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

"When I'm tai-pan, old lad, I'll get it by hook or by crook."

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

So no Chinese would ever call himself tai-pan, only loh-pan -which also meant great leader or head leader.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

Remember, he who reads this in the future, do not use the coin lightly, for the tai-pan of the Noble House must grant anything-but only once.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

"You'n the tai-pan won with Buccaneer, that should satisfy you."

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

"He had that effect on everyone-except the tai-pan and Hag Struan-even Culum was supposed to have hated him."

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

If the tai-pan or the Hag couldn't answer that one, I can't.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

The tai-pan of Asian Properties, the third largest hong, was taller than Gornt, in his late fifties, thin-faced and elegant, his smoking jacket red velvet.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

I had a thought, tai-pan, how to extract our-how to extract the House.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981