Then he commanded his Wazirs to write letters to all his Nabobs and vassals, and he indited one-and-twenty writs and despatched them to the governors, who assembled their troops and set out for Cufa by forced marches.
So Faghfur Shah sent out his Nabobs and Chamberlains and body-guards to fetch all the wanderers and travellers in the land, and they brought them before the two Kings, and they were a numerous company.
Passing these, he made his way through Emirs and Wazirs and Nabobs and Chamberlains, to the pavilion of the Sultan, and found him a mighty King.
So they drew near it and there found the Chamberlains and Nabobs and officers of high commandment standing round about it, and when they asked saying, "What is the cause for setting up yonder tent in such place?
You Southern nabobs will have it; and you have to pay for it.
We, you say; you mean by that, the hundred and eighty thousandnabobs who own five-sixths of your slaves?
Such, as far as we can now judge, was the feeling of the country respecting Nabobsin general.
Titles and forms were still retained which implied that the heir of Tamerlane was an absolute ruler, and that the Nabobs of the provinces were his lieutenants.
The Mussulman nabobs who had become sovereign princes, the Vizier in Oude, and the Nizam at Hyderabad, still called themselves the viceroys of the House of Tamerlane.
The Nabobs were in some places independent princes.
Cossim Ali Khân, the second of the Nabobs whom they had set up, was but ill disposed to the instruments of his greatness.
The Secret Committee report,[8] that under the government of the Nabobs the duty on salt made in Bengal was two and an half per cent paid by Mussulmen, and five per cent paid by Gentoos.
One of the earliest nabobs that Nevada was delivered of wore $6,000 worth of diamonds in his bosom, and swore he was unhappy because he could not spend his money as fast as he made it.
There were nabobs in those days--in the "flush times," I mean.
Hucks might wait on thenabobs all right, but they won't tol'rate a blind woman a minute, I'm sure.
I, had she shown me favour, all the old nabobsin Christendom, and the whole world to boot, shouldn't hinder me from speaking to her!
Those regius-professors the nabobs have taught men not to plunder for farthings.
Is he revolting and setting up for himself, like ournabobs in India?
It's lucky fer me the nabobs is rich, or they couldn't stan' the strain.
Then the Nabobs went in and reported to the King who forthright bade admit them to the presence chamber, and Alaeddin's mother went in with them.
Hereupon the Emirs and Wazirs, the Chamberlains, the Nabobs and the Army- officers took their stations expecting him at the palace gate.
Similarly the Nabobsof Bengal and Oudh owed only nominal allegiance to the King of Delhi.
Such are some of the Nabobs and Maharajas of India.
This is what comes from customs nabobs trying to enforce wicked laws," said an old man.
It tends to aggravate the inequality of fortunes; to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer; to multiply nabobs and paupers; and to deepen and widen the gulf which separates Dives from Lazarus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nabobs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
