In fact, the Jackson Diner has turned into a small empire.

The brigand who built himself a small empire in the north - shot through the head by a woman he'd spurned.

So I got some work washing a neighbor's windows, and that soon turned into a small empire.

But food is only one part of the complex, lucrative equation behind his small empire, now a dozen restaurants scattered around the world.

The small empire seems generally accepted in this neighborhood of single-family homes.

A few have erected small empires based largely on corruption.

A city which was itself the owner of a small empire.

At the same time, radicals have entrenched their small empires of dissent in the universities.

He starts building a small financial empire; by 1902, at 35, he has become a billionaire.

She reached the open gate and stepped into the small empire of the dead.