Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabobism
Literary usage of Nabobism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Political Economy by Wilhelm Roscher, John Joseph Lalor, Louis Wolowski (1878)
"4 In a time full of nabobism and pauperism, when some can, without the least
abstinence, make immense savings, and others none at all even with the greatest ..."
2. The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1857)
"... my ambition is not for nabobism: anywhere better than the East. The distance
and the service are both disagreeable. Yet my conscience is very pliable, ..."
3. Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; Or, Stories of the Locomotive in by William Sloane Kennedy (1884)
"The height of luxury in travel has been reached by royalty in Europe and nabobism
in America. Contrast the travelling coach of Napoleon I with the railway ..."
4. Sir Charles Metcalfe Defended Against the Attacks of His Late Counsellors by Egerton Ryerson (1844)
"... public instruction on the subject, many are unable to perceive any thing more
than confused and undefined images of East India nabobism and West India ..."
5. Forty Years on the Rail by Charles B. George (1887)
"nabobism has taken a very strong hold even in this country. Away back in 1835,
an old Bostonian groaned over the fact that " the rich and the poor, ..."
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