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• The place of meeting was changed each week, in order not to attract the attention of the waiters who served the "Horses,"--cabalistic name of the conspirators,--and their secret had to be carefully guarded, for it was nothing less than a project for distributing among the members of the Red Horse the chief offices of State, the ministries and ambassadorships, the highest positions in arts and letters, the Academie Francaise and the Institut. —  Honoré de Balzac
• The impression of his mother's loss and loneliness must have taken deep and irremovable hold upon his heart; the wide, bleak, uncomprehended fact that his father would never return, that he should never see him, seems to have sunk into his childish reveries like a cabalistic spell, turning thought and feeling and imagination toward mournful and mysterious things. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• But this set of meanings runs imperceptibly into others, for the book is much like the cabalistic manuscript described in its pages: now it is blurred over with deceptive sameness, and again it brims with multifarious beauties like those that swim within the golden depth of Tieck's enchanted goblet. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• This steed, we regret to say, is a restless, noisy brute, and invariably has to be led off the stage by one of das supes, before his act concludes However, no one should doubt his heroic nature, inasmuch as the cabalistic letters "U. —  Second Book of Tales
• It is like a cabalistic speech, throwing open to him the portals of Paradise CHAPTER FORTY FOUR A MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE As is known, Hamersley's suspicions about the treachery of the peon are not without cause. —  The Lone Ranche

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