| Callers range from the imperious to the crawling, from the famous to the social climbers, from nabobs to Mafiosi. |
| He returned to Macao, where he painted English nabobs and Chinese officials, employing Chinese assistants as copyists, and made thousands of further drawings. |
| Or rather the network nabobs think they appreciate him, but he's crossed the pond twice to discuss a possible career-making TV deal, to no avail. |
| Six years in India, painting nabobs and rajas, restored his fortunes. |
| It is enough to make Agnewesque nattering nabobs of negativism proud. |
| It dawned on me that all the friends I had made, all two of them, were nabobs, and both had magnanimity. |
