were in no wise to blame. The Penitentiary was also present. When Caballuco entered, the good canon saluted him affectionately and motioned him to a seat beside himself. "Here is the individual," said the mistress of the house disdainfully. "It seems impossible that a man of such little account should be so much talked about. Tell me, Caballuco, is it true that one of the soldiers slapped you on the face this morning?"
"Me! me!" said the Centaur, rising indignantly, as if he had received the grossest insult. "That is what they say," said Dona Perfecta.英文原著 · 《Dona Perecta》
Having arrived at that conclusion, he had asked her to marry him, and upon the match-box had marked the date and the hour. Since then she had given him many pretty presents, marked with her initials, marked with his crest, with strange cabalistic mottoes that meant nothing to any one save themselves. But the wooden matchbox was still the most valued of his possessions.英文原著 · 《A Charmed Life》
I opened my writing-desk in a great flutter. The doctor selected the largest sheet of paper and the broadest-nibbed pen he could find, and wrote in majestic round-text letters, with alternate thin and thick strokes beautiful to see, the two cabalistic words英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
After breakfast he mounts his horse and in his striking and characteristic costume of broad sombrero, blue flannel shirt, fringed chaperejos and jingling spurs he rides forth to his work a perfect type of the gallant caballero.英文原著 · 《Arizona Sketches》
Those were strange-looking men to be conveying beef and provisions. One was a large and exceedingly active man, of striking presence. He was of the purest Spanish type, with curling, gray-besprinkled, dark hair, blue, sparkling eyes, and the pronounced air of a ~caballero grande~. The other two were small, brown-faced men, wearing white military uniforms, high riding boots and swords. The clothes of all were drenched, bespattered and rent by the thicket. Some stress of circumstance must have driven them, ~diable a quatre~, through flood, mire and jungle.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"No fault of the butchers, ~Almirante mio~, that the beef awaits you not. But you are come in time to save the cattle. Get us aboard your vessel, senor, at once. You first, ~caballeros--a priesa!~ Come back for me. The boat is too small."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Start with Joe Scolari and his cabal of senior legislators.美剧 · 《Billions》
They're this cabal of sophisticates who are cashing in on their own good taste.美剧 · 《Shameless》
No. Gotta go. We can't be late to the Zionist sex-trafficking cabal meeting at the fucking Pizza Hut!美剧 · 《Shameless》