Word: cabalist
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...understanding, which they will return interest. Indeed, they are so that eventually Martin apologizes them for his "piece on the side." make a long story unendurable, piece eventually takes up with brother, and Martin falls in with the doctor's half sister. Honor Klein Bloom), an exotic cabalist on the of Charles Addams' Morticia...
...Doge's Palace of the mind. Like that famous seat of the Venetian Republic, whose ceiling, walls and floors constitute a convulsion of visual splendor, Bomarzo's pages glitter with descriptions of processions, land and naval battles, landscapes, a courtesan's sultry rec room and a cabalist's murky study...
...when stripped, looks as "naked and slender as an Easter lily"; and blind Liza, still dotty with love for her suicide brother Pursewarden. Here, too, are his strangely ineffectual men: Nessim, the Coptic millionaire, in trouble both with his wife Justine and the British government; Dr. Balthazar, the homosexual cabalist; Mountolive, the stiff-necked British ambassador; and Darley, the Irish schoolteacher, who tries to put together the carnal jigsaw puzzle of his friends...
...Avengers. Serafino's first jobs as a Mafia apprentice were relatively easy ones. He burned a farmer's haystack to avenge an insult, stole a few chickens and an old pistol, memorized passwords and studied the elaborate cabalistic rituals. He went off to war, and when he returned in 1944 he was promoted from apprentice to "cabalist of the blood." His cousin became chief of the secret society and began plotting crimes by the score. The gang pulled off about 30 jobs, though the biggest haul was a puny $65 hijacked from a touring motorist...
...father's disgust he began to dabble in occultism. Barrel-like old Madame Blavatsky warned him against removing, with his beard, the occult forces which were making a hangar of it. He joined the cabalistic Order of the Golden Dawn and played four-handed chess with Head Cabalist MacGregor Mathers, Mrs. Mathers and a ghost. It was sheer flapdoodle, but the images gave new energy to his verse. And in time this led to A Vision, one of the most astonishing books of the 20th Century, a sort of Irish-Chaldean Mein Kampf of the undermind...