All 8 Uses of
nabob
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "In two hours' time," said he, "these persons will depart richer by fifty piastres each, to go and risk their lives again by endeavoring to gain fifty more; then they will return with a fortune of six hundred francs, and waste this treasure in some city with the pride of sultans and the insolence of nabobs.†
Chpt 23-24
- "Some nabob from India," was his comment.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- Why, he must be a nabob.†
Chpt 35-36
- "Let me assure you, madame," said Lucien, "that had I really the sum you mention at my disposal, I would employ it more profitably than in troubling myself to obtain particulars respecting the Count of Monte Cristo, whose only merit in my eyes consists in his being twice as rich as a nabob.†
Chpt 53-54
- I am very sure no nabob would have sent me a pair of horses worth 32,000 francs, wearing on their heads four diamonds valued at 5,000 francs each.†
Chpt 53-54
- My father, who never goes out, has several times been on the point of refusing this invitation; Madame de Villefort, on the contrary, is burning with the desire of seeing this extraordinary nabob in his own house, therefore, she has with great difficulty prevailed on my father to accompany her.†
Chpt 57-58
- Then he had been seized upon by Danglars, who, with a rapid glance at the stiff-necked old major and his modest son, and taking into consideration the hospitality of the count, made up his mind that he was in the society of some nabob come to Paris to finish the worldly education of his heir.†
Chpt 63-64
- Why, this Count of Monte Cristo must be a nabob?†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(nabob) a rich or powerful person