Vocabulary Word
Word: mogul
Definition: powerful person; Ex. oil moguls; CF. Mogol, Moghul; CF. Mongolian
Definition: powerful person; Ex. oil moguls; CF. Mogol, Moghul; CF. Mongolian
Sentences Containing 'mogul'
I mark this in our old Mogul's wine; it's quite as deadening to some as filliping to others.
But that can't be, or else in his one case our old Mogul's fire-waters are somewhat long in working.
Hark ye, Cabaco, there is somebody down in the after-hold that has not yet been seen on deck; and I suspect our old Mogul knows something of it too.
"There now's the old Mogul," soliloquized Stubb by the try-works, "he's been twigging it; and there goes Starbuck from the same, and both with faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms long.
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