10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NABOBESS»
Discover the use of
nabobess in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nabobess and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
which turned the China asters and China roses brown, the Dahlias and '
geraniums black, and the nabob and nabobess blue. They disappeared the next
day, and have never been seen or heard of since. Then arrived a fox-hunting
baronet, ...
2
The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science
... and many a lovely countenance obscured by the intervention of an unwieldy
peeress's hu bulk, or the still more up ailing convexities of a Dutch nabobess
glitterin with Eastern plun er. A circulation of guests is kept up: some, a ter
remaining a ...
3
The History of Emily Montague
... wishes were pointed have really nothing to do with happiness. 'Is there a
nabobess on earth half as hHPIÞ-y as the two foolish little girls about - i A 4 IO
whom whom I'have been writing, though man: aried to such poor EMILY.
MONTAGUE.
4
The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of ...
Mrs. Major Waddell played the nabob's lady as though she had been born a
nabobess — she talked much and -well of curry and rice — and old Madeira —
and the liver — and the Company, which did not mean the present company, but
the ...
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, 1841
5
Hartly House, Calcutta. [A novel.]
Has 'some nabobess made overtures to him, he is com- '. pelled from pre-
engagement to decline ?-.-Can he be sentence'd to forego the height of heaven,
and toil out his existence in the diamond mines 3-Has he blighted his little rifing ...
6
The New-York Literary Gazette, and American Athenaeum ...
... are- rudely crushed by intruding toescand many a lovely counlttinanreclsrurcd "
,1 Iii-fl: -'.'-'¢:\'\ii:u of on unwieldy peeress's; huge bulk, or the still more appalling
convexities hf a Dutch nabobess glittering with Eastern plunder. A circulation of ...
Of course there would be a nabob on board, or, better still, a nabobess, young,
fair, and beautiful, with four millions of gold stowed away under hatches in his, or
her, brass-nailed trunk. Yes, the nabob must be saved, let what will happen.
8
Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology
frost," which turned the China-asters, and the China-roses brown, and the dahlias
and geraniums black, and the nabob and the nabobess blue. They disappeared
the next day, and have never been seen or heard of since. Then arrived a ...
Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell, 2013
9
The Oxford History of English
Deaness ('a woman who is head of a female chapter') is first attributed to Sterne,
who also was the first to use nabobess ('a female nabob; the wife of a nabob');
Walpole first used adventuress, agentess, artistess, chancelloress ('a female ...
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NABIS NABOB NABOBERIES NABOBERY NABOBESS NABOBESSES
NABOBISH NABOBISM NABOBISMS NABOBS NABS NACELLE NACELLES
NACHAS ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
