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Updated: May 6, 2025
The impassive European, with all the proud consciousness of a conquering race; the half-Europeanized baboo; the deposed rajah, all may be seen driving to and fro in splendid equipages, drawn by handsome steeds, and followed by servants in gay Oriental attire. The rajahs and "nabobs" are usually dressed in gold-embroidered robes of silk, over which are thrown the costliest Indian shawls.
The officers are supposed to be millionaires and of course are expected to live like Nabobs. But they do not have anything better than the men. After the men have cleaned up they gather about the charcoal fire with two or three chums that mess together. Bacon or ham of the best quality is soon sizzling in the lid of a dixie.
Once more in the street in the bright May sun, after the fashion of nabobs, he took an open carriage and was carried to Massif, in the Passage des Princes. The editor of the Jeunes was seated in his office, which was decorated with etchings and beautiful bindings.
All these kingdoms, properly speaking, belong to the mogul; but his power was so weakened by the last invasion of Kouli Khan, that he has not been able to assert his empire over this remote country; the tributary princes of which, and even the nabobs, who were originally governors appointed under their authority, have rendered themselves independent, and exert an absolute dominion over their respective territories, without acknowledging his superiority either by tribute or homage.
This act of Parliament was in affirmance of the covenant entered into by the servants of the Company, and of the explicit orders of the Company, which forbid any person whatever in trust, "directly or indirectly, to accept, take, or receive, or agree to accept, take, or receive, any gift, reward, gratuity, allowance, donation, or compensation, in money, effects, jewels, or otherwise howsoever, from any of the Indian princes, sovereigns, subahs, or nabobs, or any of their ministers, servants, or agents, exceeding the value of four thousand rupees, &c., &c.
The office itself became transformed "as full o' winders as a hothouse!" exclaimed Peggy McNutt, with bulging eyes and neat partitions were placed for the offices. There was no longer any secret as to the plans of the "nabobs"; it was generally understood that those terribly aggressive girls were going to inflict a daily paper on the community.
"He would have told me so, I doubt not, had I made any such inquiries, but they happened to be points on which I had been previously informed." "Perhaps," said Willoughby, "his observations may have extended to the existence of nabobs, gold mohrs, and palanquins." "I may venture to say that his observations have stretched much further than your candour. But why should you dislike him?"
Frederick, fifth Earl of Carlisle Lady Sarah Bunbury The Duke of Grafton Carlisle, Charles Fox, and the Hollands abroad Current events Card-playing A dinner at Crawford's Lady Bolingbroke Almack's The Duke of Bedford Lord Clive The Nabobs Corporation of Oxford sell the representation of the borough Madame du Deffand Publication of Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on Richard the Third" Newmarket London Society Gambling at the Clubs A post promised to Selwyn Elections A purchase of wine Vauxhall.
He turned away and stared hard at the silent sleeper, the appearance of which was not wholly unexpected. "You haven't informed me who the nabobs are, nor why they choose to be sidetracked in this forsaken stone-quarry," remarked the stranger, eyeing the bleak hills around him in the growing light of dawn. The agent hesitated.
'O God, be good to me this once and let me look nice. And he was. He put it into the heads of the nabobs of this vineyard that nurses should 'appear at the Nurses' Ball in regulation uniform only. So my cloak and my bonnet and my gray dress and my apron covered a multitude of sins. "You should have seen Glory that night, grandfather.
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