cabalistic symbols engraved in stone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His blanket is black, with white cabalistic signs. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Clinton's cabalistic baggage is drowning the Democratic Party. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Airing Two New Positive Spots In Indiana] Reference
A voice over the way, distinctly audible, utters the cabalistic words. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
Of great repute among the healing-spells of antiquity was the cabalistic word. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The truck was painted orange on green, with stars and cabalistic signs in blue. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
And the misanthrope cracked his whip and adjured his team with cabalistic imprecations. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
Several flat stones, marked with cabalistic letters, have been discovered, but no gold. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
It may be an amulet, a cabalistic symbol, an incantation, a bread-pill, or even sudden fright. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
"Let me see," she mused, "what's this?" and she frowned over some cabalistic marks on her paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats] Reference
There were pages of figures and cabalistic entries that no ordinary person could make anything of. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
I asked, taking up one of the packages, and trying in vain to decipher the cabalistic sign upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
He paused, and then made some marks, like cabalistic signs, which are still to be seen on the paper. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
They have no cabalistic rites nor magic formulas nor miraculous methods for producing wondrous effects. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
His cabalistic 'R. Menzies' does not greatly resemble a well-executed specimen of copperplate engraving. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
"If he means to blast us, wherefore hath he not spoken the cabalistic word ere this?" the prince demanded. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Several came close up to me, and peered over the cabalistic signs on my paper with a sort of gloomy inquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Tahara was a pretty, pale, dark girl, with curious cabalistic Riffi marks tattooed in blue on her forehead and chin. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
He made a marginal note of cabalistic import before he swung round in his chair and looked at her over his spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
The young man intimated by these cabalistic words that the part of Hatteraick was to be his in any future play-acting. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
I forgot to get three leaves from the tulip tree, you must send them to me in a letter, it is for something cabalistic. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
Now let's hear about the Vince Foster mystery, and the back room dealings in Arkansas, with cabalistic witch's brews etc. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards: Hillary Is Unelectable, And You Should Be Very, Very Afraid] Reference
Eagerly seizing the slip of paper which was gliding through the machine, he glanced over the cabalistic cipher there traced. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Some emigrants saw the cabalistic inscription all along the roadside, and they twisted the initials into a name for their State. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870] Reference
The cabalistic books were ransacked for charms and mystic signs with which to resist the power of the conqueror, but all in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
So it is entitled to write on all its literature and emblazon on its shield those cabalistic letters, "A M A" -- "Love thou them.". From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 1, January, 1896] Reference
Some were scribbling cabalistic signs on little bits of paper, and almost all were howling like maniacs or wild beasts half starved. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
The walls of this hall were covered with Egyptian hieroglyphics, with cabalistic symbols, and with the figures of the stars in their signs. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
A strange fascination, doubtless, these crafty men found in the cabalistic characters and hidden processes of reasoning peculiar to this science. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
Some were written in the Eastern character, and others concealed their sense or nonsense under the veil of hieroglyphics and cabalistic characters. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
Our existences are in truth, owing to heredity, as full of cabalistic ciphers, of horoscopic castings as if there really were sorcerers in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
Hence arose the use of amulets and cabalistic signs, or, rather, the common use, for they had been in evidence long prior to the foundation of this sect. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
When he had finished his dashing sketch of this glory, so transitory, he peppered the whole with cabalistic cipher, which only he could interpret into beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
Hebrew, Persian, and various cabalistic characters, the dark enigmas of the work of transmutation, and the invocations or prayers for success employed by the alchymist. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832] Reference
As a kind of assurance for the witnesses my brother affixed a character, -- a kind of cabalistic design, -- upon the will, assuring them it was placed on the will alone. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
But before he could deny it thrice, a man who had heard the cabalistic name was making his way towards the desk, the pride of the traveller radiating from every feature. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
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