What is "magnate"

Usage examples of "magnate".

Therefore, upon receiving the fealty of Sir Roberto di Bolgia, the magnate had not only given him back Ulaid in feoff as pre-agreed, but had absolved him and Ulaid in advance of all taxes for five years and half of the taxes for five more years, remarking while so doing that, badly as he always needed income, he still had rather see the lands held for him by his vassals and clients rich, safe from external foes, productive, and enjoying the internal peace that only comes of well-fed commoners than be having to run his armies and fleet ragged helping to put down the constant rebellions of starving, desperate people hither and yon, such as too many shortsighted and greedy monarchs had done, were doing, and would do.

RETURNING to his desk, the magnate sat down and began a new strumming.

For reasons known only to himself, the magnate was sure that the five thousand dollars would be the first, the last and the only payment that he would give Kip Nethro.

Snapping back from a forward stoop, The Shadow hoisted the bulky magnate in mid-air.

Either he had not intended to aid Dreblin or he had believed that the magnate could fell The Shadow - whichever the case, Nethro had made no move until Dreblin crashed.

The magnate and the investigator were seated in chairs under cover of revolvers held by Joe and Harry.

Vaidro had traveled the length and breadth of Maske, and now lived like a minor magnate in an ancient hunting lodge, once the property of the Cimbar of the now-extinct Cimbar ilk.

Scottish earl, standing back to back with the magnate among the well-hacked corpses of his bodyguards and the pagan foes until clansmen could hew their way to a rescue.

Steve Edmond had survived to become fairly old and extremely rich, certainly the biggest mining magnate in Ontario.

Just four weeks before the circulation of that damnable report compiled by a Canadian magnate concerning his long-dead grandson, word had come through that Al Qaeda would deal.

Garbed in a clean white toga of fine wool, the magnate looked every inch the Senator that he was by right of birth.

At last, he turned back to the magnate, who had been a firm supporter of his rule since that blustery day in Sagun-tum nine years before.

Their arid soil gave little scope to the territorial magnate, who was excluded from politics by the growing absolutism of the dynasty, and the government found it well to employ at a distance forces that might be turbulent at home.

March, the Greek shipping magnate Cornelius Kopassus suffered a fatal heart attack in his sleep.

Simon Stevens, the shipping magnate, was seized by men wearing State police uniforms not more than an hour or so ago?