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cabal
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  • Simon is alerted: he is familiar with such ruses, he knows the cabals of mothers.†  (source)
  • You're saying it's a regular cabal in there.†  (source)
  • Began to wonder if might be another revolutionary cabal?†  (source)
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  • Langdon was not sure how powerful the Masons really were anymore, and he was not going to go down that road; perceptions of the modern Masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up ....all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world.†  (source)
  • Now, it never occurred to me to wish for a nearer inspection of these large insects, with their long black claws, for I always feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government intrigues.†  (source)
  • I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided—maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader.†  (source)
  • With the passage of the assumption bill at the end of the month came cries of "intrigues, cabals, and combinations."†  (source)
  • They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal.†  (source)
  • private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five and twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Chateau-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not part with; a tailor who never disappoints you; with the opera, the jockey-club, and other diversions, can you not amuse yourself?†  (source)
  • A cabal, perhaps.†  (source)
  • If the people made the appointments, they could not be coerced by cabals and intrigue.†  (source)
  • An artful cabal in the council could distract and weaken the whole system of administration.†  (source)
  • Secret Cabals  (source)
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